Actually, the merger was old news from last month, but even obscure news is still news. I heard that yesterday, when a certain message came out (the one where everyone keyboard warriors expressed their opposition), the Internet blacklist in China added a few more members. I guess in a few years, the average citizen will only see **** online?
Back to the point, what is Openwrt? Can it be eaten? After a year, you still haven’t eaten like a pig, is that fair to your parents? In short, it is a simplified version of the Linux operating system. Once you flash it, your home router can not only provide you with high-quality WiFi but also act as a small computer, a web server, a download machine, and of course, you know its other uses…. If you are an experienced user, you might have heard of something called LEDE (Linux Embedded Development Environment), which is actually the open-source contributor of Openwrt who had a falling out with each other. The world of tech enthusiasts is like that, anyway, I’m the best (just give you a look, figure it out yourself)… A naughty one who ran out to do his own project, but just last month (January 2018), they have already made peace, as for what PY transactions are inside, we ordinary folks don’t know, leaving only one: Openwrt.
Without further ado, I will just teach you how to implement the solution. Anyway, you won’t have the heart to understand too much technical stuff (most likely you can’t understand it), people nowadays have become lazy, “as long as it works, I don’t care how you did it…” There’s no way, technology is promoted by laziness. By the way, do you need that compilation system to flash the router? I don’t know what to do! No worries! We will use what’s readily available; as I just said, we are all lazy…
First, of course, buy a router. Can I use the router provided by Telecom broadband or the one I’m currently using? Sorry, that’s too difficult, just buy one, it won’t hurt to spend less than 100 RMB, you can use the WeChat red packets you received during the holiday. Search for EA3500 (I also recommend EA4500(v1), which has slightly better configuration, only a few tens more expensive). Some stores will flash Openwrt for you, but for someone like me who has paranoia, it’s better to do it myself… Who knows what software they might install without you knowing, bringing back your scandalous pictures (why is it back again?), let the store keep the original firmware. This thing is $69 on the official website, but it has long been discontinued…
Second step, download the Openwrt system firmware Visit https://archive.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/kirkwood/generic/ Download the file below (less than 5M)openwrt-kirkwood-linksys-audi-squashfs-factory.bin
The tar file is for updating in Openwrt later, don’t worry about it for now.
Third step, start flashing Openwrt. It’s simple, don’t mess with the power line during the flashing process, do you think you are a cat that likes to play with yarn? If the router you bought is like this (classic original firmware)
If the router you bought is like this (new version of the original firmware, can be used as a heater in winter)
Just upload the downloaded bin file above, and next step without thinking.
Fourth step, log in to Openwrt, this part is slightly “technical”, download PuTTY first(https://www.putty.org/, Mac users can skip this), connect the network cable… Good, the default wireless is off, so you need a network cable (Mac users, your superiority is zero at this time), then follow the steps below
1. Create a login address 192.168.1.1 as shown below, save it, and then double-click openwrt (in blue) to open.
2. Pop up login as: enter root, the first time there is no password, it will let you in directly
Congratulations, you have succeeded! But it’s not over yet… because it still can’t let you connect to WiFi to go online…
Fifth step, open wireless settings, connect to the internet, and install the Luci interface. The initial Openwrt does not come with a web interface (to save resources… command line is enough), do you think this router configuration can run a chicken dinner game? Wake up…1. Let it dial, just copy and paste, username and password please ask your broadband provider, if it’s a direct Telecom optical modem dialing, then this step is not needed
uci set network.wan.proto=pppoe
uci set network.wan.username=username
uci set network.wan.password=password
uci commit
/etc/init.d/network restart
2. Turn on the WiFi switch, after turning it on, you can find and connect to the WiFi named Openwrt
uci set wireless.@wifi-device[0].disabled=0;
uci commit wireless;
wifi
3. Install the Luci interface, don’t show off using the command line, it’s easy to get struck by lightning…
opkg update
opkg list-installed
opkg install luci luci-i18n-base-zh-cn
/etc/init.d/uhttpd enable
/etc/init.d/uhttpd start
4. Open IE or Chrome, type http://192.168.1.1 in the address bar
After logging in, set a login password for your router and change the WiFi name and password, then go search for how to install software… I won’t write it here, anyway, it won’t break (even if it breaks, it’s less than 100 bucks, don’t make me pay = =), unless you are that cat above… Good luck.
