Unable to update GL-AR150 Plug-ins

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TLDR: Pulled an AR150 out of the dust and flashed it with the latest firmware from here (openwrt-ar150-3.216-0321-1679391237.bin). Want to install LUCI and a few other tools, however updating plug-ins failed.

How do I fix this?

– What I’ve Tried -

Discovered that the source domain in /etc/opkg/distfeeds.conf is no longer online, I updated /etc/opkg/distfeeds.conf by replacing fw.gl-inet.com/releases with download.gl-inet.com.

The new address can be pinged, however opkg update fails. It returns the following error:

Confirmed from a linux machine that wget of the new addresses does download the file.

In short, im stuck :confused: . Thanks for your help.

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This is an out of support router. Although the hardware is still good, you may want to move to generic OpenWrt to have firmware with all the current security fixes. See: OpenWrt Firmware Selector

I don’t work for GL iNet, but I run several of their older routers that they no longer support, and I’m very happy with the option of having generic OpenWrt available.

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I appreciate your suggestion. Yes the router is out of support, but it’s still a good device as you mentioned. With the aid of a 2nd AR150 I was able to determine the packages I wanted to install. Then wrote a few scripts to download the ipk’s (on a Mac), copy them to the AR150 and install them.

Now if I could only make the web GUI have a dark mode :rofl: .

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Please keep in mind that GL does not support upgrading packages manually. There is a big chance of bricking the device and need to restore it.

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It wouldn’t be the first device I’ve bricked and had to recover :+1:

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