I've been running OpenWrt on my original r2 as my primary router and it has been rock solid. (both snapshot builds and now builds from the 21.02 branch). The default builds for the r2 available for download from OpenWrt are very bare bones so I don't recommend that route.
The onboard mediatek wifi isn't usable but using a mini pcie ath10k supported wifi module has worked great.
It definitely wasn't easy initially tracking down info for getting things working. No argument there.
I'd be happy to share my OpenWrt build config for the r2 for anyone interested.
The onboard mediatek wifi isn't usable but using a mini pcie ath10k supported wifi module has worked great.
It definitely wasn't easy initially tracking down info for getting things working. No argument there.
I'd be happy to share my OpenWrt build config for the r2 for anyone interested.