<div dir="ltr">It took me several years to work up the courage to install openWRT on my WNDR3700, so I'll wait a bit before I upgrade. I've got a big network rewired in the plans so maybe I'll do it then.<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 October 2014 19:54, Khalid Baheyeldin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>I was able to overcome the bulk of the problem, by adding more sources to /etc/opkg.conf<br><br>So, my opkg.conf file looks like so:<br><br>src/gz barrier_breaker_packages <a href="http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages/packages" target="_blank">http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages/packages</a><br>src/gz barrier_breaker_base <a href="http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages/base" target="_blank">http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages/base</a><br>src/gz barrier_breaker_luci <a href="http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages/luci" target="_blank">http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages/luci</a><br>src/gz barrier_breaker_management <a href="http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages/management" target="_blank">http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages/management</a><br>src/gz barrier_breaker_routing <a href="http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages/routing" target="_blank">http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages/routing</a><br>src/gz barrier_breaker_telephony <a href="http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages/telephony" target="_blank">http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages/telephony</a><br>dest root /<br>dest ram /tmp<br>lists_dir ext /var/opkg-lists<br>option overlay_root /overlay<br><br></div>I was able to install all the packages except for 3 of them (syslog-ng3, file, and dstat).<br><br></div>Much better now ...<br><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>So, I could not resist, and broke down and upgraded.<br><br></div><div>I followed the Terminal Upgrade Process detailed here<br><a href="http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/generic.sysupgrade#terminal.upgrade.process" target="_blank">http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/generic.sysupgrade#terminal.upgrade.process</a><br></div><div>Saved the following to /etc/sysupgrade.conf<br><br>/etc/rc.local<br>/etc/syslog-ng.conf<br>/etc/crontabs/<br>/etc/custom/<br>/etc/config/<br><br></div>Good news, and bad news ...<br><br></div>Good news is that the router comes up, with WiFi, LuCI (the admin interface), and all the DNS and DHCP mappings. So the home network works as previous.<br><br></div>Bad news is that many packages do not exist yet. These include USB kernel modules (which means I can't mount a flash drive), zlib (lots of things depend on it), curl (use it for some scripts to do Dynamic DNS with Linode), ncurses (htop, iftop depend on it).<br><br></div>As I expected, this would happen. It is more of an inconvenience so far, nothing really crucial.<br><br>So, if you have installed packages, make sure they are not crucial when you upgrade. Or wait some more ...<br><div><br><br></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:29 PM, CrankyOldBugger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I will wait too. I'm running openWRT on my Netgear WNDR3700. Much better than the stock firmware!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On 2 October 2014 13:46, Khalid Baheyeldin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Barrier Breaker (14.07) is now released.<br><br>However, because of changes to how they are building packages, I will wait for some time until packages stabilize, before considering upgrading my router.<br><br><a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/614603/" target="_blank">http://lwn.net/Articles/614603/</a><span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Khalid M. 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