title: Captive Portal - Chillispot | OpenWrt vs DD-wrt
body: <p>I've been trying to configure a captive portal using DD-wrt and Open-wrt, with my own radius server and I've also tried to configure them using a CSP page (<a href="http://worldspot.net" rel="nofollow">http://worldspot.net</a>).</p>
  
  <p><strong>DD-wrt</strong></p>
  
  <p>My first try was with a TP-LINK WR841N (v7.) and DD-wrt using the web interface. In dd-wrt web interface there is an option in <code>Services -&gt; HotsPot -&gt; ChilliSpot</code>. Here I tried both configurations, using my own server data, and also tried with WorldSpot data, and my issue was the same in both cases: </p>
  
  <p>When I enable Chillispot on the router, I don't get IP assigned, meaning I can't connect to the wifi/lan. It seems the problem is obviusly with the router and It's something like the Chillispot configuration is not working, or the changes are not"applied"</p>
  
  <p><strong>Open-wrt</strong></p>
  
  <p>After some hours trying to make work dd-wrt I think that maybe with open-wrt it was easier to configure, and here I found another problem. After updating my TP-LINK to Open-wrt I realized that I cannot access to the router via WEB, so I have to connect via telnet and ssh to install some packages and make some configurations.</p>
  
  <p>I tried to install "luci" the package for the web gui and I found with some errors:
          - First It didn't find the package, and I have to change the <code>/etc/opkg.conf</code> file
          - Once I downloaded the package and try to access web I get error <code>uci_load: not found</code>
          - Once I fixed the uci package issue, I enable the uhttpd and start it, but when I try to connect via web I get another error "CGI didn't receive any response"</p>
  
  <p><strong>Questions</strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>Someone with more experience than me could point me wich of these softwares is better to have a spot system/captive portal ?</p></li>
  <li><p>It's possible that in <strong>dd-wrt</strong> case the configuration of chillispot wasn't applied to the router configuration ? </p></li>
  <li><p>For <strong>open-wrt</strong> anyone has same errors with the web interface ?</p></li>
  <li><p>I've been reading and it seems that it's possible to configurate ChilliSpot via <code>SSH</code> , but the tutorials I found were not very helpfull, anyone can point me to a good tutorial for this ?</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I also have a <code>D-Link dir-615 H2</code> but it seems to be less compatible with open-wrt and dd-wrt than the TP-LINK.</p>
  
  <p>I would be thankfull for any information that can put me in a good direction, thanks!</p>