Gargoyle Forum

Hi to all,

sorry if this is a total noob question, but I'm completely new to OpenWRT/Gargoyle.

I recently installed Gargoyle 1.5.10 on my Netgear WNDR3800 and everything works fine so far. I'm only wondering about "packages" that allow you to add additional features to your device (I hope I got that right). As I'd like to engage a bit more in the topic "custom router firmware" I wanted to give packages a try, but I just cannot find a clue where to get such packages and how to install it. A friend of mine told me, using LuCI you can install them from your web interface, but the Gargoyle web interface only shows me themes and just a handful of other stuff.
So I'm wondering where are the other packages? I was told there should be dozens of them. And how can I install them?
Could it be I'm just to blind or this really a bit confusing?

Thanks in advance for your help and your patience!

Many of those same packages can be used with Gargoyle (which is running atop of OpenWrt). Unfortunately, there isn't a web interface for adding a myriad of packages - which would require a myriad of webpages for users to interface with.

You can see what is available by opening a ssh session to the router on the command line: For the ar71xx platform, they pretty much mirror this page
http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_a ... /packages/

I'm trying to install the Neorouter server package from here:


http://download.neorouter.com/Downloads ... ar71xx.ipk

It isn't listed in the packages mentioned in the above post, but shouldn't I be able to install it? The package is for the AR71xx router, which my router is, and I'm running Gargoyle based on AA, I believe.

If anyone knows the SSH commands I would type to install I'd appreciate your help.

Thanks.

You can install from an url using opkg rather than from Openwrt repository
http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/techref/opkg

When I try and install through opkg I get this error:

opkg install /tmp/nrserver-2.1.1.4300-free-attitude_adjustment-ar71xx
.ipk -d ram
ERROR: No package named nrserver found, try updating your package lists

Any ideas?

nchall wrote:When I try and install through opkg I get this error:

opkg install /tmp/nrserver-2.1.1.4300-free-attitude_adjustment-ar71xx
.ipk -d ram
ERROR: No package named nrserver found, try updating your package lists

Any ideas?

It means the path you specify does not contain the package you are trying to install. Isn't it obvious?

It does contain the package. I can login with WinSCP and see it in the directory.

nchall wrote:It does contain the package. I can login with WinSCP and see it in the directory.

Well, that can only mean the path you specify is not correct.
You can execute the command when your console is inside tmp folder instead of specifying /tmp/xxx.ipk

Now getting this error when executing from inside the /tmp directory:

opkg install nrserver-2.1.1.4300-free-attitude_adjustment
ERROR: Specified install destination is not writable, exiting

nchall wrote:Now getting this error when executing from inside the /tmp directory:

opkg install nrserver-2.1.1.4300-free-attitude_adjustment
ERROR: Specified install destination is not writable, exiting

Sorry, can't help you there. Have not had this error before. Check if you have enough space on your ROM left.
But the command you copied seems to be missing some parts.
Shouldn't it be nrserver-2.1.1.4300-free-attitude_adjustment-ar71xx.ipk?