The previous firmware had the native GUI and an Advanced option which would get me into openwrt. Is it possible to have that back and have a new openwrt?
Unfortunately no. The latest GL firmwares are based on 19.x, but they are fully patched for vulnerabilities. 21.x firmware will come in Q1 next year i believe.
You will still have the advanced menu to open Luci, but it will be 19.x.
ok - I Just tried that, downloaded as a bin file…
Sun Oct 24 09:33:16 UTC 2021 upgrade: Device glinet,gl-mt300n-v2 not supported by this image Sun Oct 24 09:33:16 UTC 2021 upgrade: Supported devices: gl-mt300n-v2 Image check failed.
The uploaded image file does not contain a supported format. Make sure that you choose the generic image format for your platform.
Right so you will need to use the debrick guide to flash it. Will be better in the end as it will clear all config files that might get left behind.
Oh sorry, before doing that, you can check the “force upgrade” at the bottom of that warning. But still better to do the debrick when going from one firmware to another.
Yeah this is a new feature. A lot of basic users might not need the advanced UI (aka Luci from OpenWRT). So go to Plugins → Update, then find Luci and install.
If you go to More Settings → Admin Password and try putting the password again? Maybe some special characters are not supported, i don’t know. Should work.