I absloutely love the GL-MT300N router!! However I would rather install stock openWRT firmware on the device. The GL-Inet software has some neat features, but there are many I wont use. I would rather do a vanilla install and then add all the features from both as needed. I purchased the device for a business trip I’m taking and wanted to have this connect to pfSense back home with openVPN.
Security is more important to me over ease of use. I have tried installing some packages to increase security on the GLI image, (LUCI SSL) and was not able to get it to work. I am also not interested in the remote management feature on the base image…
Unfortunately for all of us the openWRT site has been up and down over the last few days so it makes research more difficult. I have found some other openWRT repos I can use for sourcing file to build an image for MT-300N.
If it were you, how would you go about creating a stock openWRT image for this router? Or is there already one that exists? There are multiple builds listed on that repo, are any/all of them compatible? I noticed they all show mt7620 but don’t differentiate between the n or the a version. I’m guessing that it doesn’t matter.
I am fine with compiling the image, just have never done that before… If i find a decent guide i should be fine… I have Linux CLI experience. If i’m successful I would be more than happy on sharing the image so it could be put on the downloads page. It looks like this was done for the ar-150…?
FWIW, I run an AR-150 with the the GLI GUi and OpenVPN.
If you just installed Luci-SSL (luci-app-openvpn??) then OpenVPN might not work. You also need openvpn-openssl though I expect it would be installed as a dependency.
The GLI GUI is a big benefit when working with a mobile device for connecting to APs (STAtions), but in any event is so much easier than using LuCi to change STAtions. It also virtually eliminates the issues related to forgetting to uncheck the create additional networks, which is a killer on the road (with out an Ethernet cable)
You probably want to disable the DDNS feature. It’s posted elsewhere on the forum here.
For MT300N/A, first choose “Ralink RT288x/RT3xxx” from Target System, then choose “MT7620 based boards” from Subtarget, then you will find the profile in Target Profile
Does anyone know if Image Builder supports this device? There is nothing on the openwrt page yet and only hints by searching the forums and the Internet. I’ve been given a few hints in the forums but am not doing this stuff as a hobby so not always sure what they mean.
I know how to use IB however, just need to know which version supports it that hopefully isn’t trunk as that is all I can find at this moment.