Hi,

I bought the carambola 2 to replace my current TPlink OpenWRT router. I was expecting a simple swap but it turns out that packages are downloaded from a dedicated repository where many packages are missing. I'm unable to set up any kind of VPN for example, since pptpd is missing, openvpn is missing and ipsec-tools is missing. Also a more friendly editor such as nano would be handy.

I see you provide a compilation environment, but this is for the linux kernel only, right? And it is an awful lot of work just to configure a wifi router.

Or can this be used to compile all available openwrt packages? But then why do you not just provide a repository with all packages so we can use that?

Is there any chance I will be able to use openwrt.org's own repositories in the future?

The hardware is great though. I've 3d printed a case with external antenna, will put this on thingiverse soon.

Thanks for any help
Joost

Nice surprise about this shorter form. Can you tell us what it is you are talking/writing about?Has any info. about this shorter form been posted before (and i just missed