Dear all,

I recently bought a TL-WR841N v9, wishing to install openwrt onit. (Reason=wished Dynamic DNS provider is not offered by the factory firmware).
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop.
I tried to understand how to install Openwrt, and reeding more and more, I got scared...of possibility to get lost.
( I understood, as after flashing the new software, there will be no 'friendly' interface, and so on...)

I have doubts about the first login, when there is no GUI yet(? ) .

Can someone describe 'for dummies' how to install, in a way to achieve a GUI?

Thank you in advance.

BR
Gyorgy

(Last edited by gyorgy on 16 Jun 2014, 05:43)

After you upload the Openwrt firmware to the router, wait until it reboots (when it ends the firmware update).
Wifi will be disabled by default, so you must use ethernet to connect the router.
Then you can login by Telnet ( telnet 192.168.1.1 )
To use the web GUI, connect a LAN cable from the main router to the openwrt box WAN port and type this on telnet:

opkg update
opkg install luci
/etc/init.d/uhttpd enable
/etc/init.d/uhttpd start

Now you can use the web gui by entering 192.168.1.1 on the browser

Good luck!

Thank you for the answer.
I did the flash...
than connect over telnet ( terminal : telnet 192.168.1.1. ).

From here I can't step further ..
- probably I am not connected to internet.

I tried to connect :
uci set network.wan.proto=ppoe
uci set network.wan.username=.....
uci set network.wan.password=...
uci commit network
ifup wan

after this I tried again :
opkg update

( received the message : /bin/ash: okg: not found...)

And since this I am lost...

"/bin/ash: okg: not found..."

opkg update

.....

Resolved /16.03.2014/ :
there was a synthax error :

uci set network.wan.proto=ppoe   (2 x pp !!! )

it was corrected with
vi /etc/config/network       to:
uci set network.wan.proto=pppoe      ( 3 x P !!!)

so now you'll never forget how pppoe is written