Downloaded latest OpenWRT (WhiteRussian 0.9)
Installation is pretty simple. Just go to the web interface at http://192.168.1.1 and go to Administration -> Firmware Upgrade
Browse... for the downloaded OpenWRT image and hit Upgrade
Took about 45s to display the "Upgrade is successful." confirmation page.
Give if about 2-3 minutes to format the filesystem and install the new image.
Click continue on the router upgrade page.
At this point you may or may not have access to the router from either web browser or telnet.
You might have to repair your LAN connection (by visiting Control Panel -> Network Connections).
If you still have issues bringing up the web interface, restart the router, release and renew the IP address of the local machine.
Once you get into the web interface and click any link on the page, you will be prompted to change/set the root password. You will be using this to login thru SSH or Web Browser. You will not have access to the router if you forget the password.
Now go to System -> Installed Software (You will be prompted to enter the login ID and password)
You can install and try out a variety of applications from here.
More posts to follow discussing all the cool applications that you can run using OpenWrt and to completely utilize your routers HorsePower.
1 comment:
In your step on Install lighttpd (dep. libpcre, libsqlite3, libxml2)
for some reason the installer did not install libsqlite3 and libxml12. Had to manually get the .ipk file for a different version from http://downloads.openwrt.org/backports/rc6/lighttpd_1.4.11-1_mipsel.ipk
If you run it with the 1.4.11-2, it will give an error that /usr/lib/mod_indexfile.so is not found.
Put notes about creating an ext3 and FAT32 partition for dummies. :-)
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