Flashing GL-MT300A with OpenWRT Fails Every Time

Technical Support for Routers
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Hi all,

First off - quick question, what does the switch on the side do? I cannot find an answer anywhere!

Next, I’m trying to flash my MT300A with the OpenWRT ROM mentioned on this page:

https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/gl-inet/gl-mt300a#installation

Specifically this one: https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ramips/mt7620/openwrt-ramips-mt7620-gl-mt300a-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

Every time I do it, the router ends up in the following state:

It is routing Internet traffic from the WAN port to LAN port perfectly
Its not broadcasting any wireless signal
I can ping it LAN IP address of 192.168.1.1 but I cannot telnet on to it
Browsing to 192.168.1.1 doesn’t work either

So DHCP is working and so is NAT but very little else.

Anyone got any ideas?

I have reverted back to the stock BIN three times and tried re-flashing the OpenWRT bin but not luck.

Thanks

Bob

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OpenWrt trunk images do not include Luci so there is no web browser

OpenWrt images have wireless disabled by default, so that is expected.

I expect you should be able to telnet. Did you try ssh?

Once your in you may need to read this page

https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/techref/opkg

https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/firstlogin

There is a GLi “Clean” (No gli gui) which I believe has Luci (no positive) and there are also LEDE trunk images now.

http://www.gl-inet.com/firmware/

None of the OpenWrt or LEDE images have much testing that I know of

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yes. Openwrt firmware comes with nothing.

You can do as @RangerZ said.