# Please provide native OpenWRT with wireless enabled 

**URL:** <https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/please-provide-native-openwrt-with-wireless-enabled/66239>\
**Category:** Router\
**Created:** [December 23, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/please-provide-native-openwrt-with-wireless-enabled/66239 "2025-12-23T21:48:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![q00](https://forum-assets.gl-inet.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/a3d4f5/32.png) [@q00](https://forum.gl-inet.com/u/q00)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/please-provide-native-openwrt-with-wireless-enabled/66239/1 "2025-12-23T21:48:46Z")

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Hi

Please provide native OpenWRT with wireless enabled. I wanna try native OpenWRT because router doesn't receive any updates. See: [No love for Slate Plus?](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/no-love-for-slate-plus/66103)

But native OpenWRT after flashing doesn't have wireless enabled. And i don't have any device in house with LAN port, all wireless (even laptops!). LAN? Come on it is 2025!

I asked help on their forums, they told me that i need to buy LAN to USB adapter, which i feel usless to buy since i never use LAN cables.

So i ask GL team to provide native OpenWRT image for all models but with slightly modified thing: wireless enebled after flash, so i (and users with no LAN ports) will be able to access admin panel.

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**Author:** ![will.qiu](https://forum-assets.gl-inet.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@will.qiu](https://forum.gl-inet.com/u/will.qiu)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 1:24am UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/please-provide-native-openwrt-with-wireless-enabled/66239/2 "2025-12-24T01:24:51Z")

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Hi,

You can use the **uci-defaults** feature in the OpenWrt Firmware Selector to enable Wi-Fi by default during firmware build.

Please refer to the following documentation for details:

> **[\[OpenWrt Wiki\] UCI defaults](https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/uci-defaults)**

> **[OpenWrt Firmware Selector](https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/)**

Here is a simple example configuration:

```auto
cat << "EOF" > /etc/uci-defaults/99-custom
uci -q batch << EOI
set wireless.@wifi-device[0].disabled='0'
set wireless.@wifi-iface[0].ssid='OpenWrt'
set wireless.@wifi-device[1].disabled='0'
set wireless.@wifi-iface[1].ssid='OpenWrt-5G'
EOI
EOF

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum-static.gl-inet.com/original/3X/7/7/77e28f6cb342ac4bd641bd9a6254595d61b2812a.png) [@system](https://forum.gl-inet.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/please-provide-native-openwrt-with-wireless-enabled/66239/5 "2026-04-09T11:22:42Z")

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