@luz

Last time I checked the MT open source drivers were not stable. But a very quick google suggests from OpenWRT 18 to 19 there has been significant improvement.

Thanks for correcting me, so the thread can close with accurate info for future readers.

@crispyoz

Thanks. Poking about in the forums I found the latest builds for the v1, so I have the docs and the images:

http://repo.onion.io/omega/images/

That is enough to get my old device to the latest from whatever it happens to be running now.

I won't be making a big commitment to the v1, if it does what I want that is great. If not I have my v2s and can try a standard OpenWRT install on the v1 whenever I am inclined.

@Loïc-Cotonéa

I've seen this before, MediaTek chips not supported monitor mode. You will have better luck with an Atheros chip. If you have an Onion v1 you might want to give it a try, it ought to work, although I've not tried it. Alternatively there are other products with Atheros chips that that either run OpenWRT out of the box or which can be flashed with OpenWRT.

@ArgusR

Did you flash the OpenWRT version as posted on the OpenWRT site? I checked and I see the v1 is a supported device, and it actually has more RAM than other devices I am running OpenWRT on. Also the v1 is similar to other AR9331 devices, which are still supported by OpenWRT (flash size seems to be the main limiting factor).

Is your v1 stable following your update? If my Onions get used for some IoT application I hope they will run a long time. since they are basically router chips, uptimes of a year+ should be common.

@crispyoz

What I'd like to see is not continued support for legacy products, but when a device is discontinued all of the materials (docs, software, etc) are moved to a discontinued products section of the website where they are clearly marked as legacy. This might allow community support for as long as anyone is interested, and anyone has a number of devices that for some reason they are continuing to run, can build the old code and flash as they might want to until they upgrade to supported devices.

As for me I have both v1 and v2 devices (2 of each) that I recently decided to reuse and either version might do for what I had in mind, so in the case of the v1 just flashing to the final release might be advantageous. Of course I realize that any legacy devices that used a cloud service that has been shutdown, will have reduce functionality, but that is fair game.