Anyone flashed with OpenWRT?

bought the unit from nabielz, immediately flashed to vortex. coming from openwrt firmware, the GUI is a bit heavy.

i have enabled entware, installed in usb flash drive. at surface level, entware is very similar with optware.

i have 1 annoying issue with vortex, my ssh keep disconnected (suspected ssh daemon stopped). re-enabling ssh service from GUI doesn't helped much, so the only way to gain ssh back is to reboot the router.

Logs:
Jul 23 13:50:26 dropbear[1337]: Exit (admin): Error reading: Connection timed out

from my pc, there's no ping time out to the router when ssh disconnected.

This post has been edited by neuromancerx: Jul 23 2016, 01:52 PM

Never successful to perform firmware upgrade from 380.58 to latest release. Using LAN, tried with IE and FF on Win10, failed. Tried using safari on Mac also failed. Any idea? System logs did not say anything.

Tried with WS880_380.61_1.zip and WS880_380.61_0.zip

Verified sha256 is correct.

This post has been edited by neuromancerx: Aug 28 2016, 12:04 AM


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Yes i have unzipped it.

Also the sha256 sum is match

Thanks for the insight. Yes, able to perform firmware upgrade via CFE web server. On 380.61_1 now.

Yes, it's weird. In fact i had spent 3 days to figure it out before posting here

Also, initially suspected that i need to follow the upgrade path (from .58 to .60 and then to .60_1) but i was wrong.

Nvm, will try for GUI firmware upgrade on the next release.

p/s: upgrade via CFW mini web server will retain all the configuration, including JFFS and entware base including installed packages.

This post has been edited by neuromancerx: Aug 28 2016, 09:55 PM

Been using pyload in NAS, for me this will be the all-type-of-media-downloader (http, https, youtube, torrent, etc)

http://www.snbforums.com/threads/tutorial-...-entware.14890/

https://github.com/Entware-ng/Entware-ng/wiki/Using-Pyload

https://www.hqt.ro/pyload-download-manager-...ugh-optware-ng/

You must install entware or entware-ng in xwrt

after update to 380.65, i have to frequently reboot the router due to unresponsive wireless issue. wifi connected but no internet

Sorry for the late reply. The issue was on 2.4Ghz. When my device connected to 5Ghz, solid as rock.

Anyone know how to install debian package (*.deb) in xwrt?

turn off qos if you enabled it. i

I'm on 380.69_2, i noticed Traffic Manager is no longer there, or is there any direct link to that page?

i think we can switch between vortex and tomato seamlessly since both firmware is having .trx

yes must reset NVRAM. my context of seamless is changing the firmware via the same GUI, without going back to CFE mode

You can set the antenna power transmission to lower value

WS880 flashed with advanced tomato, used for almost 2 months already. happy with the built in adblock function, can shutdown my pi-hole.

More or less is almost the same, at least to me. The reason of switching to tomato is because adblock and bandwidth reporting function.

no it did not, even using pi-hole also cannot

I gave up mikrotik when i failed to achieve the desired result configuring wifi bonding (mimo). Documentation is okay, but sometimes did not reflect latest cli syntax. Overall it is still a great product.

i had successfully configured openvpn in xwrt@WS880, as a vpn server and vpn client.

As a vpn server, let you to connect to your home network remotely, i use this to access my home esxi lab from office. I changed the port to TCP443 to bypass corporate firewall.

As a vpn client, establish vpn from this router to my openvpn server (VPS). It is very nice that the firmware let me to do policy based vpn routing, ie only let specific local machine via vpn while the rest of the machine go direct to internet. In my case, i let my download station to use vpn for torrenting (privacy) while the rest of the devices is going for direct internet (speed).

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