Recent content by gerardr

OpenWRT has made some progress in supporting the BT8. See this OpenWRT forum link.

I think I'm getting confused about the version numbers. As I was looking around, I saw that the RT-AX5400 had firmware version 3.0.0.4.388_23785 released this past Monday, but nothing new since 2023-06-20 for the RT-AX3000/RT-AX58U, so I was thinking "out of date", but it might just be...

You may be correct about the next EOL. There's a recently released Asus router, the RT-AX5400, at the same price point as the RT-AX3000 originally was, also with a tri-core 1.5 GHz CPU (but I think the RT-AX5400's CPU is 64-bit, while the RT-AX3000's is 32-bit). The RT-AX3000 is on sale now for...

I just thought that I should add that maybe OpenWRT got the poor reputation during the period when they lost many developers to a fork named LEDE (dispute over rules and priorities, IIRC), which 18 months or so later re-merged with OpenWRT. However, this was when KRACK was discovered. LEDE had a...

Maybe you should investigate OpenWRT. There are several Asus AX routers based upon MediaTek SOCs that show up on the supported devices page (here's a link to their AX router search). OpenWRT is currently at kernel 5.15 (longterm) but moving to the next longterm kernel, 6.1. Some Qualcomm AX SOCs...

Expanding upon Merlin's command above, add /jffs/nvram/custom_clientlist, as on my router, it, too, contains a mapping of host name to MAC address. Or maybe change the 'rm' to 'cp /dev/null' with a separate command for each file, as that would leave empty versions of those two files.

You should be able to scp these files from your '/jffs/nvram' directory to save them, then restore them later: custom_clientlist, dhcp_staticlist. It may be possible to do a full configuration save, and somehow extract those two files from that, but I haven't tried, so I cannot say for sure.

I'm also going to support getting another tech visit. The timing associated with the arrival of spring, to me, is telling. Back in 1987, at a university, we had broadband cable internet (later replaced by fiber after a grant from a major computing company). The lead tech carried around an FM...

From RMerlin: Have to wait for Asus to fix that. The networkmap service flushes ARP entries, including permanent ones. Networkmap is closed source, so outside of my control. @Ole it sounds like you just need to take your existing script and add it to scheduled tasks (aka crontab) via the...

One can also keep a backup of /jffs on another system, and then port back select files after a factory reset. I installed 'rsync', but an 'scp -r' should work, too. It may also be possible to extract files from a config backup file, but I haven't tried that. Here's what my router's /jffs looks...

I just opted for a DynaLink DL-WRX36 from Amazon for 80 USD. It's base OS is Openwrt Chaos Calmer, but I've upgraded to the Openwrt snapshot. While the contents of /lib/firmware look proprietary, the kernel device drivers do have source code. Both 5ghz and 2.5ghz bands are working. Various...

Hi! Check that the channel you'd picked earlier is available in Australia. Here's a helpful Wikipedia page: List of WLAN channels.

Not sure if this will help, but here's a script I wrote that gets activated by the nvram variable script_usbmount=path-to-script which is present in both the stock asuswrt and asuswrt-merlin. The script runs when a usb stick gets successfully mounted. To make sure that the path is available...

The other thing I would add is that the public key is all one line, no new line or carriage return characters in it. Sometimes copy/paste tries to be too clever and inserts some.

Hi! I suspect that you need to check the label of the RT-AX58U and see if it is a 'V1' (supported by asuswrt-merlin), or a 'V2' (not supported by asuswrt-merlin). Take a look at this forum thread: Merlin on RT-AX58U V2.