Hi ,

I have written a small  quick start guide how to start with openwrt, hope this will help some one

http://dipinthomas.wordpress.com/2014/0 … h-openwrt/

Regards,
Dipin Thomas

url can not be accessed

I am able to access it, can you please try secure link :

https://dipinthomas.wordpress.com/2014/ … h-openwrt/

Regards,
Dipin Thomas

Makes a littel more sense, than the Wiki, that actually have the description, scattered around.
Also ends up the same place...

Woring in Ubuntu 14.10
Trying to use 14.07 (router is TL-WR841v9) so:
git clone git://git.openwt.org/14.07/openwrt.git

After "make prereq" I get these errors:

Build dependency: Please install ncurses. (Missing libncurses.so or ncurses.h)
Build dependency: Please install zlib. (Missing libz.so or zlib.h)
Build dependency: Please install GNU awk.

/home/birger/TL-WR841v9/openwrt/include/prereq.mk:12: recipe for target 'prereq' failed
Prerequisite check failed. Use FORCE=1 to override.
/home/birger/TL-WR841v9/openwrt/include/toplevel.mk:137: recipe for target 'tmp/.prereq-build' failed
make: *** [tmp/.prereq-build] Error 1

And nowhere is a description of what to do about it.

So how do I proceed?

apt-get install libncurses-dev zlib1g-dev gawk

Thx - that took care of that.

The information about the prerequisites can be found here:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/build … tallations

Thx- I'm a beginner with OpenWrt as well as linux, so just trying to get to understand som of what is going on...

Succeeded making some files - but have no idea what the opitins in the makemenu are all about.
It doesnt seem to save config files either - no files with the name I gave exists...
I'm pretty sure I selected the TL-WR841N - but the files are apparenly for 801nand...

So guess I still have some studing to do...

https://dipinthomas.wordpress.com/2014/ … h-openwrt/ contains a typo:

git clone git://git.openwt.org/12.09/openwrt.git

should be

git clone git://git.openwrt.org/12.09/openwrt.git

(note the "r" in in the URL / FQDN

HTH

It would make more sense to fix the error at the source rather than here...

Have you tried to contact the author directly?

->https://dipinthomas.wordpress.com/contact-me/

As the author of the webpage is also the starter of this thread, I guess he will get informed by mail thanks to my update.