Asuswrt-Merlin 3.0.0.4.270.24 is out

[RMerlin]

This has happened to me for every release and on all browsers (IE, Chrome, FF, Safari). Seems especially to occur with Apple devices, e.g, every Apple device shows as an Sam's iPhone, regardless whether it's a mini, an iPad, or my wife's iPhone.

FWIW.

We are not talking about the same thing here. I'm talking specifically about the Ethernet Port status on the Sysinfo page, which works fine under Chrome. IE reports it as "undefined".

 

[RogerSC]

This has happened to me for every release and on all browsers (IE, Chrome, FF, Safari). Seems especially to occur with Apple devices, e.g, every Apple device shows as an Sam's iPhone, regardless whether it's a mini, an iPad, or my wife's iPhone.

FWIW.

Interesting, the names of our Apple wireless clients all show as I would expect (2 iPhones and an iPad), with the full name that shows when they're plugged into iTunes.

Wonder what might be going on there...

 

[RocketJSquirrel]

I was looking forward to the fsck upgrade. Sadly, it still fails in the same place the old version did, albeit with a more reasonable error message, on my vanilla 2 TB Seagate Desktop drive.

admin@RT-N66U:/usr/sbin# fsck.ext3 -v /dev/sda1
e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
USB_Storage has been mounted 157 times without being checked, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Error allocating icount link information: Memory allocation failed
e2fsck: aborted

 

[emax.b]

Update beta4 to final : problem with Traffic Monitor for device

I update from beta 4 to final release.

Now, i have problem with Traffic Monitor for device.

From log:

cstats[595]: Problem loading /mnt/sda1/data/tomato_cstats_10bf48d969f0.gz. Still trying

 

[RMerlin]

I update from beta 4 to final release.

Now, i have problem with Traffic Monitor for device.

From log:

cstats[595]: Problem loading /mnt/sda1/data/tomato_cstats_10bf48d969f0.gz. Still trying

Check the path and make sure it's correct. Your disk could have moved to a different mount point (sdb1, for example).

 

[RMerlin]

I was looking forward to the fsck upgrade. Sadly, it still fails in the same place the old version did, albeit with a more reasonable error message, on my vanilla 2 TB Seagate Desktop drive.

admin@RT-N66U:/usr/sbin# fsck.ext3 -v /dev/sda1
e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
USB_Storage has been mounted 157 times without being checked, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Error allocating icount link information: Memory allocation failed
e2fsck: aborted

Looks like the router doesn't have enough RAM to do a proper fsck on such a large disk.

 

[hclarkjr]

thanx merlin for another fine release, installed without problems for me.

 

[huotg01]

For Linux newbie, like me, the system utility fsck (for "file system check") is a tool for checking the consistency of a file system in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, such as Linux. RT-N66U firmware is seated on a Linux Kernel.

 

[RocketJSquirrel]

Looks like the router doesn't have enough RAM to do a proper fsck on such a large disk.

Correct. I inserted a 1 GB flash drive and made it a swap partition. Then fsck was able to complete. It found very few filesystem inconsistencies. Not bad for 7 months of daily use.

The only issue seemed to be a missing "badblocks" program, but that didn't affect the repair.

admin@RT-N66U:/# fsck.ext3 -vfcy /dev/sda1
e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
sh: badblocks: not found
USB_Storage: Updating bad block inode.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Entry '..' in .../??? (36536354) has deleted/unused inode 36536335.  Clear? yes

Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Unconnected directory inode 36536354 (...)
Connect to /lost+found? yes

Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Unattached inode 36536353
Connect to /lost+found? yes

Inode 36536353 ref count is 2, should be 1.  Fix? yes

Inode 36536354 ref count is 4, should be 3.  Fix? yes

Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Block bitmap differences:  +(146163734--146163736) +(146163738--146163742) +146163905 +146163913
Fix? yes

Free blocks count wrong for group #4460 (32510, counted=32500).
Fix? yes

Free blocks count wrong (341413612, counted=341413602).
Fix? yes

Inode bitmap differences:  +(36536353--36536356)
Fix? yes

Free inodes count wrong for group #4460 (8192, counted=8188).
Fix? yes

Directories count wrong for group #4460 (0, counted=2).
Fix? yes

Free inodes count wrong (121964198, counted=121964194).
Fix? yes


USB_Storage: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****

  137566 inodes used (0.11%)
   16856 non-contiguous files (12.3%)
     127 non-contiguous directories (0.1%)
         # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 53438/10140/2
146964398 blocks used (30.09%)
       0 bad blocks
      23 large files

  121705 regular files
   15852 directories
       0 character device files
       0 block device files
       0 fifos
     111 links
       0 symbolic links (0 fast symbolic links)
       0 sockets
--------
  137667 files
admin@RT-N66U:/#

 

[alk630]

Thanks

Just want to say a massive thanks to RMerlin for this and every other AsusWRT release on RT-N66U. The latest finally works flawlessly with all my devices and the 2.4 wireless reaches all four corners of the house, a feat that no other router or firmware has managed since I started with wireless 6-7 years ago.

Keep up the fantastic work, it's brilliant

 

[RMerlin]

Correct. I inserted a 1 GB flash drive and made it a swap partition. Then fsck was able to complete. It found very few filesystem inconsistencies. Not bad for 7 months of daily use.

The only issue seemed to be a missing "badblocks" program, but that didn't affect the repair.

admin@RT-N66U:/# fsck.ext3 -vfcy /dev/sda1
e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
sh: badblocks: not found
USB_Storage: Updating bad block inode.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Entry '..' in .../??? (36536354) has deleted/unused inode 36536335.  Clear? yes

Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Unconnected directory inode 36536354 (...)
Connect to /lost+found? yes

Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Unattached inode 36536353
Connect to /lost+found? yes

Inode 36536353 ref count is 2, should be 1.  Fix? yes

Inode 36536354 ref count is 4, should be 3.  Fix? yes

Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Block bitmap differences:  +(146163734--146163736) +(146163738--146163742) +146163905 +146163913
Fix? yes

Free blocks count wrong for group #4460 (32510, counted=32500).
Fix? yes

Free blocks count wrong (341413612, counted=341413602).
Fix? yes

Inode bitmap differences:  +(36536353--36536356)
Fix? yes

Free inodes count wrong for group #4460 (8192, counted=8188).
Fix? yes

Directories count wrong for group #4460 (0, counted=2).
Fix? yes

Free inodes count wrong (121964198, counted=121964194).
Fix? yes


USB_Storage: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****

  137566 inodes used (0.11%)
   16856 non-contiguous files (12.3%)
     127 non-contiguous directories (0.1%)
         # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 53438/10140/2
146964398 blocks used (30.09%)
       0 bad blocks
      23 large files

  121705 regular files
   15852 directories
       0 character device files
       0 block device files
       0 fifos
     111 links
       0 symbolic links (0 fast symbolic links)
       0 sockets
--------
  137667 files
admin@RT-N66U:/#

Thanks for testing this out.

I can add the badblocks tool as well, especially since fsck is expecting it to be present.

A shame there's no way to run this on a device with limited available memory. I guess Asus will run into that issue with the disk_monitor service they are currently developing for Asuswrt. Still, I feel safer using the full-featured version of the tools from e2fsprogs rather than those from Busybox.

 

[RMerlin]

Just want to say a massive thanks to RMerlin for this and every other AsusWRT release on RT-N66U. The latest finally works flawlessly with all my devices and the 2.4 wireless reaches all four corners of the house, a feat that no other router or firmware has managed since I started with wireless 6-7 years ago.

Keep up the fantastic work, it's brilliant

Thank you Most of the credit for that coverage goes to Asus tho. I'm using the same wireless driver as they use in 3.0.0.4.270, which seems to be a tweaked version of the driver from their previous releases.

 

[RocketJSquirrel]

Thanks for testing [fsck] out.

I can add the badblocks tool as well, especially since fsck is expecting it to be present.

A shame there's no way to run this on a device with limited available memory. I guess Asus will run into that issue with the disk_monitor service they are currently developing for Asuswrt. Still, I feel safer using the full-featured version of the tools from e2fsprogs rather than those from Busybox.

My pleasure, thanks for putting it in.

I assume Asus doesn't really expect people to shell in and run commands like fsck. Only us advanced [i.e., anal-retentive] users do that. It won't bother me to add a thumb drive for swapping once every few months to do a fsck. Maybe their next hardware will have more RAM.

For anyone interested, fsck needed about 75 MB of swap space to check my 2 TB ext3 drive.

 

[RMerlin]

My pleasure, thanks for putting it in.

I assume Asus doesn't really expect people to shell in and run commands like fsck. Only us advanced [i.e., anal-retentive] users do that. It won't bother me to add a thumb drive for swapping once every few months to do a fsck. Maybe their next hardware will have more RAM.

For anyone interested, fsck needed about 75 MB of swap space to check my 2 TB ext3 drive.

Asus are implementing a new service called disk_monitor, which will take care of duties such as scheduled disk checks. That means they will also run into that same issue with large disks (I wonder if they noticed that yet?)

 

[twng888]

I try upgrade the firmware from 3.0.0.4.266.23 but without any success. After uploading the new firmware. The router reboot and it go back to 3.0.0.4.266.23. Anyone has this problem. My router is RT-n16.

 

[Serpent]

Mkfs command also needs some swap space to complete on large drives, not only fsck.

Merlin, if you add the badblocks tool our drives will thank you, as we are doing too...

 

[joegreat]

I try upgrade the firmware from 3.0.0.4.266.23 but without any success. After uploading the new firmware. The router reboot and it go back to 3.0.0.4.266.23. Anyone has this problem. My router is RT-n16.

Hi,

Simple question: Did you unZIPP the firmware first?

With kind regards
Joe

 

[twng888]

yes unzip using 7-zip and thats what i do previously. I also try both chrome or IE10.

 

[thexile]

Do you have a triple antenna on your device? If not your not going to get the range... better yet what channel are you running? An ea-66u can help your problem also in repeater mode

Sent from my SCH-I605 using Tapatalk 2

Actually I am using 5Ghz on my Galaxy Note 2 which I don't think have triple antennas. Channel wise, I have leave as 'auto' on the router.

I don't really need a repeater; a repeater reduces throughput anyway.

 

[huotg01]

I try upgrade the firmware from 3.0.0.4.266.23 but without any success. After uploading the new firmware. The router reboot and it go back to 3.0.0.4.266.23. Anyone has this problem. My router is RT-n16.

I don't think that Asuswrt-Merlin 3.0.0.4.270.24 is "certified" (if I can say so...) to run on the RT-n16, is it ?