On Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 2:53 PM Ted Mittelstaedt <[email protected]> wrote:
> As I mentioned DD-WRT works fine with certain 4/32 devices. And building > OpenWRT for those can be done. I have yet to compile my own firmware for any > of the Big 3 - Fresh Tomato, DD-WRT and OpenWRT - but when I finally get > around to doing that I'd rather risk bricking an AP that is worthless such as > a 4/32 with only a 2.4Ghz radio. Get yourself a serial console cable, like one of these: https://www.adafruit.com/product/5335, and never worry about bricking a device again. I have never "bricked" a device with firmware in 2 decades of OpenWrt hacking. You can basically ALWAYS recover from the bootloader, which is accessible with a serial console. Modern OpenWrt is on kernel v6.6.y and it doesn't fit on 32MB of RAM anymore, no matter how much trimming you do. I only build from source and I gave up on them in about 2019. They OOM after about 30 seconds and reboot. For me, the likelihood of success was sufficiently low, and my time was valuable enough that just getting a better device was a better choice. -- Russell Senior [email protected]
