On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 04:38:43PM +0000, Andreas Thulin wrote: > Hi! > > Aplogies in advance if this post comes out as tremendously stupid - I'm not > very experienced.
No worries. > I bought an ASUS RT-AC88U wireless router. Performance is great, but I lack > the configurability I'm used to from working with on other boxes. Started > out exploring options for making it a NAS by attaching an external HDD, and > then thought I'd back that up to my friends' NAS nightly. Turns out I need > to install something called optware to be able to install packages on the > (presumed) minix installation, which I can reach by ssh. Minix? I doubt that. I bet this AP is running Linux. > At some point I thought that hey, OpenBSD is great at networking. Could I > install that instead, and work with an environment I know better than a > commersial web interface or crippled terminal? > > So - could I? No, you could not. Your best bet for such devices are OpenWRT and DD-WRT. This page has some links: https://wikidevi.com/wiki/ASUS_RT-AC88U (see the "Forum threads" section there)
