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by cnst 564 days ago
Yup, it's specifically a problem if you simply go to Amazon, and shop GL.iNet based on price.

Their GL.iNet SFT-1200 "Opal" router does NOT have ANY OSS firmware options. It's a great travel router for $35 USD, but, alas, they're basically abusing the OpenWrt trademark by advertising it as an OpenWrt router when it is not.

Luckily, I think most of the other ones do have OpenWrt builds, but, if you're going to install OpenWrt manually, might as well get a different/cheaper router from some other manufacturer, like Cudy or Dynalink, which are also supported by OpenWrt, and are very affordable for the hardware that you get.