All Activity

Hi @Alex88 Have you followed this guide: https://support.keenetic.com/titan/kn-1812/en/20980-installing-the-entware-repository-on-a-usb-drive.html ? Anyhow, if you want, we can talk in my telegram group: https://t.me/+V0I63qd9VSs5OTNk And maybe find a solution together

Up

Up for iOS 26.3

Idea: Find a reasonably large flash drive for the downloads. Would that work or be too slow?

Hello, I’m trying to install KeenTool on my Keenetic Titan using OPKG, but I’m encountering issues. Here’s what I’ve tried: USB Drive Setup: I’ve formatted the USB drive (both NTFS and EXT4) and mounted it correctly using the "opkg disk" command. The drive is recognized as /opt in the system. OPKG Setup: After enabling OPKG in the Web GUI and setting the USB drive as the disk for OPKG, I proceeded to use the commands as outlined in the instructions, such as opkg update and opkg install curl. However, I receive errors such as "no such command: update" or "Command::Base error". I’ve also tried opkg chroot, but I can’t run the package manager correctly. Permissions: I checked the permissions on the USB drive and made sure both read and write are enabled. SSH and CLI: I have access via SSH and Web CLI, but OPKG doesn't seem to recognize any commands for package installation. Despite following all steps carefully, I can’t get OPKG to update or install packages. Is there a specific step I’m missing, or should I be using a different setup (e.g., EXT4 vs NTFS)? Thanks for your help!

You should also be able do delete everything created by the OPKG installer via the web UI/telnet.

It's shameful that no official has responded.

And if I don't install the OPKG files to an external drive?

Hello, Jim 🙂 Nothing is wrong with trying OPKG if you want to configure something that is not possible with the stock firmware. That being said there is no official support for any OPKG-related issues, so if you have an issue you will have to refer to other users, e.g., here on the forum or in the OpenWRT community. However, since Keenetic firmware is not OpenWRT the advice you will get from the OpenWRT community may be not fully applicable. On the other hand, I would suggest that you just back up your router's firmware and configuration files (startup-config) once you configured the stock firmware the way you want it. You can do that via the web UI. Even if something goes wrong with the OPKG, you can go the the router's web UI, de-select the USB drive you've installed OPKG to and keep using the stock firmware until you want to try again. If the "something goes wrong" situation is worse and you can't access the web UI -- you will always be able to restore the stock firmware using the files you backed up *. * The startup configuration file does not contain encryption keys used in the Wi-Fi system or in WireGuard interfaces. That means that if you restore your router's configuration using a backed up startup-config file, you will have to re-acquire any Wi-Fi system extenders (if you have them) and re-create WireGuard interfaces (if you use them).

Though I am not an expert on this, I think that the topology you've suggested is a can of worms waiting to happen. Not the least of which is the danger of the first ISP trying to talk to the second ISP as a client, and vice versa. If I assume that the reason for the connection is to increase bandwidth, many routers, Keenetic among them, support using multiple ports, usually the ISP port and the first LAN port, as ISP network connection points. Though I have never tried this, I am assuming that the ISP network connections can be configured independently.

I posted this on Stack Exchange at Should I even THINK about upgradng packages in OpenWRT?, and didn't receive any reasonable answer as the majority of the answers boiled down to "it depends", so I am asking it here. ==================== Ref: The related posting at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/400231/how-do-i-upgrade-all-of-my-installed-packages-in-openwrt Note that, though I am not new to Linux per se, I AM new to OpenWRT, especially as applied to routers and such like. The referenced article, along with this article on the OpenWRT web page, (https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/additional-software/opkg#upgrading_packages), indicates that mass upgrades are potentially dangerous, almost to the point of "Don't even THINK of running e2fsck on a mounted partition" severity - and other sections indicate that individual updates themselves can be a dicey matter. However, the comments within the original post referenced above vary widely - ranging from "just don't" to others who say that updates are an important part of maintaining system security. My original assumption, (based on previous "big package" Linux experience), is that package maintainers have a responsibility to ensure that package updates will successfully update an existing package - and if there's a significant incompatibility and/or dependency change, it should be a different, (though related), package. So, what's the truth of this? Maybe I should just stick with the stock functionality of my router instead of opening the can of worms that is OpenWRT? ================== Any comments and guidance would be gratefully appreciated.

Hi, Jim! I am not sure I can answer all of your questions completely, but I will try to do my best: 1 + 2. If you are talking about RAM, then you can monitor that parameter in the web UI dashboard. There is no general rule of thumb on how many different service you will be able to run at the same time, so it is trial and error. If you meant permanent storage, than I would recommend to install the open package system on a USB drive. There is an option to install it on the device internal storage, but the available space will be quite limited. 3. You can check this GitHub repo and this section of the forum (the Entware Quickstart thread is a good start 🙂) 4. After setting up Entware/OPKG and logging into the SSH shell it provides, you can run opkg update && opkg list to see all the packages available for your device: 5. You can leave the "initrc script" field empty, the installer will fill this parameter automatically. Out KB article on how to install Entware on your router: https://help.keenetic.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021214160-Installing-the-Entware-repository-package-system-on-a-USB-drive

Ahhh! The telnet port was set to "21". Setting it to 23 fixed the telnet problem. Onward and Upward!

Okay, thank you 😅 That should not affect anything If you can access the router's web UI, you can check if the telnet port is the default one here: http://my.keenetic.net/administrator Also, from the web UI you can restart the internal telnet service: If that does not help, please download the self-test file from your device and attach it here, so we can check it (we will hide the message containing the file since it has some sensitive data in it, so you won't see it, but the moderators will still be able to access it).

Greetings! One of the interesting features of this router is that it is extremely configurable. So much so that I am beginning to wonder which Linux distribution it's based on! 😉 One feature is the ability to add additional functionality via both the web interface and Open Packages. 1. How do I know how much of my router's memory is available for use? 2. How full is "too full"? (How much "headroom" should I leave?) 3. Where do I find these Open Packages? 4. How will I know if a particular package is compatible with my router? 5. The OPKG package manager configuration page asks for an "initrc script". What should I provide? Thanks! P.S. I found this: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/additional-software/opkg It seems both useful and gnarly.

Of course. 🤪😉 It is connected via an Ethernet cable through a dumb switch. Neither a hard wired nor WiFi connection will connect. My wife's computer, (which is directly connected to the router itself via an Ethernet cable), also fails. I'm sure there's some setting somewhere that I set, (or failed to set), that causes this. Also. . . . All these devices are "registered".

Hello, Jim The telnet access from the LAN should be enabled by default. I know this is a dumb question, but is your computer in the local network of your router when you try to connect it to the router? (i.e., is it connected to one of the grey Ethernet ports on the router/to router's Wi-FI)

@Eug Family Hi, I don't necessarily need 10GB at home. The 2.5GB I have now for €35 a month is more than enough, But here in Italy, for a couple of years now, TIM (ISP) has been offering new home customers a 10GB/2GB plan for €30 a month... why not take advantage of it? I increase the bandwidth (which I will never use) at a lower cost. p.s. I'm a technology lover and I always like to try new things whenever possible.

Greetings! Router: Keenetic Giga (KN-1012) EAEU System: Linux Mint 22.3 I have been trying to establish a SSH connection to my Keenetic router but I keep getting "Connection Refused". I found and installed the SSH module and rebooted the router. Research indicates that I have to issue certain specific commands via the "command line interface", (telnet) to activate it. The instructions indicate that telnet is enabled by default and that I should open a telnet connection to the IP address of the router - which opens the router's CLI. Unfortunately, telnet also returns "connection refused". Every solution I searched for cycles back to needing the CLI to enable/change things, but I have to do something to enable the CLI so that I can change things to enable the CLI to enable things to enable. . . . Etc. I've installed putty on my system and I've also tried via a Linux terminal window. Neither SSH nor telnet can connect; both return "connection refused". Update: Using putty installed on Windows 10, both telnet and SSH also return "connection refused". What am I missing? Jim

I get conformation from support that simultaneous untagged (native) VALN without ID and VLAN with ID are possible on VDSL PTM IPoE connection. I also ordered KN-3610 and have soon possibility to check this in live.

I want to join the conversation, are you really using 10 Gbps for home purposes? I have a hard time imagining what you could use such a network for on a regular basis, other than enterprise and ISP.

Thank you for explaining why do you want it 🙂 We will keep that scenario in mind for the future. I would be happy to give you a timeline, but at this point, it's difficult to do so. We definitely have 10G models in our roadmap.

@eralde That's what I wanted to avoid...redoing the procedure by setting it to AP mode. It would be nice if this was implemented in a future firmware version. That would be a plus. Imagine modifying the scheduler of the various nodes directly from the controller (Titan) independently. Anyway, thanks for the info, and think about this feature...it's not bad for us users. P.S. An info ....will Keenetic release a router with a 10 GB WAN and a 10 GB LAN this year?

I think that in your case the easiest way would be to exclude the Buddy 6 that is placed in the garage from the Wi-Fi system. You can remove the Buddy 6 from the Wi-Fi system using the controller Web UI. After that you can set up that Buddy device again as a separate "Access Point" device (there is an option for that in the Initial Setup Wizard on that Buddy). You will still be able to configure that Buddy using it's own web UI, but the controller won't sync it's settings to it. That means that the work schedule on that Buddy can be 24/7 instead of the one you have inside your house. Unfortunately, that also means that you'll have to configure all the relevant settings (e.g., Wi-Fi SSID/password/...) on the Buddy itself. Some of those settings can be configured in the Initial Setup Wizard. For ones that you can't change there you'll have to log in to the Buddy web UI. You will see a link to it on the "Client Lists" page in the controller web UI.

@eralde I have a Titan be7200 and a buddy 6 to extend the WiFi network inside my house. In the garage, I have a buddy 6 connected via Ethernet with a webcam and a photovoltaic inverter connected to the WiFi network. I would like the garage WiFi to be always on, separately from the Titan and the buddy 6 inside my house.