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No thanks, OpenWRT package management is awful. None of the advantages of OpenWRT apply to a machine that has enough resources to run a typical distribution.
by s_baby 13y ago
No thanks, OpenWRT package management is awful. None of the advantages of OpenWRT apply to a machine that has enough resources to run a typical distribution.
- yuvadam 13y agoWhat exactly makes `opkg` awful? Sure, it's no aptitude or pacman, but you have to remember that OpenWRT is a full fledged distribution (package manager and all) that fits on an image of less than 4MB!
- s_baby 13y agoopkg upgrade can brick your device. >Sure, it's no aptitude or pacman, but you have to remember that OpenWRT is a full fledged distribution (package manager and all) that fits on an image of less than 4MB! It's nice when resources are a limitation. But that's not the case here.
- brigade 13y agoI ran 'opkg upgrade' once and it deleted itself. I've run into lots of other annoyances with it (e.g. its database is rather slow), but that's the one that sticks in my memory.
- jevinskie 13y agoI asked myself why I was toying around with OpenWRT and DD-WRT when my N66U router can easily run Debian with a 600 MHz MIPS CPU and 256 MB of RAM! Why suffer the pain of a half-Debian when I can have FULL Debian? I have a Bus Pirate wired up to the router's UART and a JTAG adapter attached to the JTAG port. Now if only I could get the CFE bootloader to talk to my PC so I can boot the kernel over TFTP and run debian installer or a debootstrapped rootfs. =( I can't even get ping! EDIT: This is the basic path that I am taking: http://people.zoy.org/~walken/wgt634u/HOWTO.html http://people.zoy.org/~walken/wgt634u/HOWTO.html
- s_baby 13y agoSays you should plug tftp into wan but doesn't mention you should use cross-over cable in that case.
- makomk 13y agoIt's very unusual that you need to use cross-over cables these days, almost everything is autodetecting.
- evol262 13y agoOnly GigE autodetects, and the NIC in his system is unknown.
- makomk 13y agoYou've got that slightly backwards. GigE always has auto-MDIX support, slower Ethernet ports might not support it but generally do in all semi-modern hardware.
- s_baby 13y agoReally? Didn't know that. Still might be worth a shot in my eyes since it's unclear to me if autodetect happens before or after an OS bootup.
- jevinskie 13y agoI seem to recall trying both WAN and LAN ports but I will check again this evening. Thanks for the suggestion!