Fixt in new builds of OpenWrt. If you are running the 18.xx or 19.xx branches then update to latest and all is good again.

Just updating isn't a very safe way to upgrade, use what they suggest in the mail instead:

To update the opkg package itself without upgrading the entire firmware, the following commands may be used once all repositories have been updated:

   cd /tmp
   opkg update
   opkg download opkg
   zcat ./opkg-lists/openwrt_base | grep -A10 "Package: opkg" | grep SHA256sum
   sha256sum ./opkg_2020-01-25-c09fe209-1_*.ipk

Compare both checksums and, if matching, proceed with installing the package:

   opkg install ./opkg_2020-01-25-c09fe209-1_*.ipk

release notes

https://openwrt.org/releases/19.07/notes-19.07.1

This is why I use OpenWrt. Shout out to the dude sticking up for screen reader users to! Thanks friend. Shit like footnotes and captchirs are the bane of my life!

security of OpenWRT vs Tomato? OpenWrt has a up-to-date Kernel. We try and be as safe as we can from first boot. We make you set your password to get up and running so no crappy passwords from the start. wifi is turnd off on boot so you don't get a unsafe wifi network with no security. The firewall is set up with a small rule set to be as safe as it can. The webinterface can be installed with https We have lots of packages to be even safer. BCP38, addblock, banip, dnscrypt, several proxy servers and dns over https.

I would not run Tomato? on a router in 2020 it runs with old Kernels and old packages.

Disclaimer: I am not a OpenWrt dev I just help out around the place like on Twitter forums PS if any one needs help pleas come to the forums we will help out as best as we can. Some people think that OpenWrt has devs that are not very tolerant. I can tell you that this is not true. there was a bug in LUCI the webinterface that made it hard to use with my screen reader I asked about it on irc and it was fixt in 3 hours.

I'm using DD-WRT at home. I understand that the embedded Linux that it runs can become more of a full featured version by adding and properly formatting a hard drive to the router. I haven't been able to do this yet and I think it would be great if there were an image available that could be written to the disk for this purpose.

Known issues:

  * Sysupgrade from ar71xx to ath79 and vice versa is not officially
    supported, a full manual reinstall is recommended to switch targets
    for devices supported by both ar71xx and ath79
  * Images for some device became too big to support a persistent
    overlay, causing such models to lose configuration after a reboot.
    If you  experience this problem, please report the affected device
    and consider downgrading to OpenWrt 18.06 or using the Image Builder
    to pack a smaller custom image
  * Some optional GUI packages crash with an error about missing
    "cbi.lua", install the "luci-compat"  package to fix these
  * Any outstanding issues reported at https://bugs.openwrt.org/

Blame the fcc dicks!

Blame the FCC dicks!

No sorry. There is no open drivers.

Hi I think the best thing would be for us to take this to the forums. https://forum.openwrt.org/ Pleas post as mutch info as you can. make of router and build of openwrt. Or post a bug here: https://bugs.openwrt.org/

Hi there is the email list, but It can get a bit spammy. Or follow me on twitter @OpenwrtH: https://twitter.com/openwrth?lang=en