On Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 7:34 AM Ted Mittelstaedt <[email protected]> wrote: > > It would be interesting to know if anyone ever tried building Snort3 for that > box.
I have not. > > It seems as though you are unable to use opkg with the QorIQ platform and that > Any apps must be compiled into the image before it's written to the SD card. > At least > Per this: > > https://forum.openwrt.org/t/howto-install-on-watchguard-m300/133072/19 It does seem to be source-only at the moment. I didn't notice that because I build from source anyway. > > This also does not inspire confidence: > > https://forum.openwrt.org/t/newbie-tried-install-openwrt-on-watchguard-firebox-m300/187341/2 > The installation instructions did change at some point. The forum thread you are pointing at seem to describe a person who used the old instructions with a new version. The current instructions work with the current images. I just followed them yesterday and they worked. > Nor does the dead link here: > > https://openwrt.org/toh/watchguard/firebox-m300 > > "FIT Images" point to > > "doc/uImage.FIT/howto.txt" did not exist on "master" Looks like u-boot moved the information to: doc/usage/fit/howto.rst on about June 23, 2023 in this commit: 51de69cda390f645dc69046703340d0780f52e46 You don't need to understand FIT, it is just there as a background informational link. And, it is a wiki, you are permitted to fix broken links. I just fixed it, should work now. > > I dunno. I have 40 wifi AP's in production use running OpenWRT but I've also > been burned by OpenWRT. The most recent time > Was with a Linksys E3000 that was running dd-wrt just fine. Installed > OpenWRT on that, worked perfectly. Enabled wifi interface #1 - still worked > perfectly. Enabled the ac wifi interface - router crashed and is now stuck > in a bootloop and I'll have to take it apart and serial recover it. https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/e3000_v1 has a gigantic BEWARE warning at the top. It uses a broadcom radio which is always fraught. > > Really stupid to provide an image on the OpenWRT site that allows you to > brick a unit just by clicking an "enable" button with no warning message "do > not enable this wifi interface" or some such. You are, of course, entitled to a full refund. ;-) -- Russell Senior [email protected]
