Also - Thanks for making this. I got it running on my MT300A, seems to be working good so far. Only thing is, I had to install luci from the command line, is it not pre-installed?
Thank you again for making this image. Very helpful.
@mvn2000 @Justin, I didn’t try. But this seems a common problem of OpenWrt trunk. Trunk is upgrading daily. The repo is built from time to time. Once new repo is built, your firmware will not be able to install kernel modules again. So, you need to download the most recent firmware again (from OpenWrt official built) and then you will be able to install.
I already downloaded and installed official build from OpenWrt site. Yes, it working, But this official build is completely empty, no mc, nano, samba, LUCI, usb and sd card support… I installed LUCI, OpenVPN and all other things and decided to test button. Pressed it long, and… my router empty again!
Official Trunk builds from OpenWrt contain none of the packages noted by default. If you install them and press reset they go away. The router is reset to the factory default contents. If you build your own, when you reset the device it will revert to the built image contents.
If you download trunk, you should also download all the packages as of that point in time (300mb or so if I recall) and save locally. If you read the wiki, you can find the details on how to install local packages.
I copy packages to the tmp folder (via SCP) and install from there. Tedious, but not difficult. You also need the dependencies, which may be more of an issue to identify.
TIP: keep a text file of all the packages and the dependencies you install. format this into an opkg statement and save it along with a config backup. It significantly speeds up a rebuild.
@alzhao Thanks for the information about OpenWRT Trunk.
Also, has anyone attempted to build a trunk image for the MT300Ns as well by chance? I may attempt to build an image if there are none out there at the moment.
@brother, @alzhao I have used this image for my new mt300a. It works great!
But there are a slew of packages that I would not need (zc, even apache etc). When I tried to remove through opkg remove ‘pkgname’ none of the packages get removed. I am really short on space, and got to get rid of few large packages.
Any idea on how to remove some packages…? Much appreciate
Like Ranger said, the partition you are modifying is only the overlay, when you use opkg. In fact, deleting things can take up more space on the overlay and will not give you more space.
IF you have special needs, just build your own with the image generator: Image Generator (Image Builder) - EN [Old OpenWrt Wiki] --It is really not that hard and is a good opportunity to work with virtual machines, linux cli, etc. I suggest virtual box and ubuntu server.
Otherwise, continue to pester @alzhao about a clean build, which I thought he was going to make, as he has already done for the AR150: GL.iNet download center