Recent content by kcpants

Happy to do a full reset when I can take my network down again without impacting anyone if that is truly required. Given the evidence I've gathered thus far along with the reports from other users experiencing the problem, I hope that RMerlin would be willing to run service start_wps_method and...

I haven't needed to perform a full reset because of the somewhat unique nature of the issue. More specifically, since the issue affects WPS and WPS is only needed briefly when connecting a new device to the network, flashing to a firmware with working WPS, connecting the new device, then...

I looked a bit more into the WPS problem and confirmed that it is not present in stock Asus firmware so I believe it is a legitimate bug in merlin. A more detailed write-up of my investigation can be found in this comment. Note, I don't think this bug is new to 386.12, rather it was introduced...

I found some more time to dig into this and I believe I've now done enough legwork to confirm that this is a legitimate bug in merlin. I installed the latest stock Asus firmware on my router from here and confirmed that WPS is indeed working. I then upgraded to the latest merlin firmware and...

If anyone stumbles on this thread while searching for any command to trigger the WPS connection process (as opposed to exclusively relying on nvram set), calling service start_wps_method on the RT-AC86U works (regardless of whether the Spanning Tree Protocol is enabled or disabled -- contrary to...

Are you certain this WPS problem is a "bug with wifi" and not an issue in Merlin? The following report seems to indicate that WPS is working on stock ASUS firmware: https://www.snbforums.com/threads/wps-not-working-on-rt-ac88u.77241/ Additionally, WPS has been broken in Merlin before on...

I've reported the problem here: https://www.snbforums.com/threads/asuswrt-merlin-386-12-is-now-available-for-ac-models.86647/post-868962

Based on the comment in the following thread, WPS is not working in 386.12: https://www.snbforums.com/threads/wps-not-working-stuck-on-connection-status-idle.75966/post-866526 Independent of that comment, I can confirm WPS is also not working on 386.11. However, it is working in version 386.2.4...