Official OpenWRT on GL-AR750S

chromebook · 2022-10-24T09:44:59.681Z

GL.iNet GL-AR750S

GL.iNet GL-AR750S Under Construction! This page is currently under construction. You can edit the article to help completing it. A small, lightweight “travel router”, it features dual-band operation and supports 802.11ac. Other notable features...

Hi!

I’m wondering how well official openwrt currently runs on the original slate… anyone have any experience?

I’m confused between the NOR and NAND issue - what is the simplest way to have vanilla openwrt installed and then updated?

… Can I just install from LuCi?

Thanks for any advice

groentjuh · 2022-10-24T10:13:17.538Z

I do not know for GL-AR750S, but my AR300 is pretty fine of stock OpenWRT.

The NOR and NAND issue was an issue with older versions of OpenWRT as OpenWRT did not support one of those memory types (I believe NAND). Nowadays you have 2 firmware images available for this router. One for NOR and one for NAND. So that’s not an issue any more. The only slightly tricky thing might be switching between NOR and NAND firmwares. There are commands for that.

I believe you could simply install it from luci or uboot. Do make sure that if you’re running on NAND-firmware (default) that you install the NAND image of OpenWRT (same for NOR of course). Do not keep the settings when going from factory firmware to stock OpenWRT.

chromebook · 2022-10-24T13:06:50.876Z

Oh so you can indeed just update to openwrt through LuCi - that’s good news!

Is there any advantage to NOR or NAND… are the open source drivers well supported and functioning well?

Thanks

groentjuh · 2022-10-24T14:17:09.729Z

NOR offers only 16MB space. The device starts from that when it fails to start the NAND firmware 3 times.
NAND is the default storage, which is 128MB.

ath9k and ath10k will be as good as it will get for drivers. It might however be slightly slower in certain things compared to the original Qualcomm drivers.

asdffdsa1122 · 2022-10-25T19:39:37.535Z

hi,
maybe @diver68 can comment?

Cannot uboot a new firmware to AR750S-EXT Technical Support for Routers

Why not using OpenWrt on the AR750S Slate? I run 22.03 flawless on it.

diver68 · 2022-10-27T05:19:20.349Z

Sorry for late reply, I use the NOR/NAND Version of OpenWrt. OpenWrt Firmware Selector