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I'm getting an error in OpenWRT Attitude Adjustment that says:

-ash: brctl: not found

when I run 

brctl addif br-lan mesh0

I tried:

opkg update
opkg install brctl

But I got this error:

Unknown package brctl

Is brctl in a larger package? If so, what package do I need to install use it?

Also, for future reference, is there a manual or something that lists what functions are in what packages?

Thanks!

Jeff Schaller
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Unfortunately OpenWRT information on packages can be quite sketchy and opkg doesn't have a facility to search for a file in packages that are not yet installed, which doesn't help.

I don't have access to a system running Attitude Adjustment (12.09), but on my routers running Barrier Breaker (14.07), brctl is provided by BusyBox:

# opkg search /usr/sbin/brctl
busybox - 1.22.1-2
# ls -l /usr/sbin/brctl
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root  17 Oct  2  2014 /usr/sbin/brctl -> ../../bin/busybox

I believe it should be the same on Attitude Adjustment but some searching revealed that a full version of brctl is available in the bridge package. To install:

# opkg update
# opkg install bridge

If you did have a brctl symlink in /usr/sbin, you'd need to remove it before installing though.

mjturner
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