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Chuckles67

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AX-86U running Merlin 386.2_2. Found my Router was not providing internet connection over WiFi. I could log in to the Router GUI, and the router stated internet connection was up/working.

Did a power-off manual reboot and all good.

Looking at the logs for failure, this happens nine hours before the manual reboot:
Code:
May  4 22:05:08 syslogd started: BusyBox v1.25.1
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.25.1 (2021-04-13 17:11:57 EDT)
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: FCACHE_CONFIG_MAX_HOST_DEV_ENTRIES<64>
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: FCACHE_CONFIG_MAX_HOST_MAC_ENTRIES<32>
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: npe_max_entries<32768>
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: Bind blog_notify_evt_enqueue_fn[<ffffffbffc4698a8>]
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: fc_evt task created successfully
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: max_ent = 16384 intvl_msec = 10000 num_slices = 2000 num_ent = 9 period_msec = 5
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: NBUFF v1.0 Initialized
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mTotal # of labels = 68^[[0m
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mInitialized fcache state^[[0m
May  4 22:05:08 kernel:     Pkt HW acceleration is disabled/unavailable.
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mBroadcom Packet Flow Cache  Char Driver v4.0 Registered<302>^[[0m
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: fc_timer_task created successfully
May  4 22:05:08 kernel:     Pkt HW acceleration is disabled/unavailable.
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: Created Proc FS /procfs/fcache
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mBroadcom Packet Flow Cache registered with netdev chain^[[0m
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mBroadcom Packet Flow Cache learning via BLOG enabled.^[[0m
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: ^[[0;35m[FHW]  pktDbgLvl[0xffffffbffc481c88]=0^[[0m
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: ^[[0;34m[FHW]  fhw_construct: ^[[0m
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mInitialized Fcache HW accelerator layer state^[[0m
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: flwStatsThread created. numFlwsPerPoll 546 maxFlwIdx 16383
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mFcache Pathstats created^[[0m
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: ^[[0;36;44mConstructed Broadcom Packet Flow Cache v4.0^[[0m
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: Broadcom Command List Driver v1.0
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: crossbar[0]: Allocated cb_idx=0 int_ep=0
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: crossbar[0]: Add cb_idx=0 ext_ep=0 SERDES:6
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: crossbar[1]: Allocated cb_idx=0 int_ep=1
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: crossbar[1]: Add cb_idx=0 ext_ep=1 GPHY:12
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: crossbar Mux: connect cb_idx:0  int_ep 0 to ext_ep 0
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: crossbar Mux: connect cb_idx:0  int_ep 1 to ext_ep 1
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: Detecting PHYs...0x40000000
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: 54991EL  B0 3590:5089 --> 0x1e
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: Loading firmware into detected PHYs...
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: Firmware version: Blackfin B0 v01-00-14-2019-08-08
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: Loading firmware into PHYs: map=0x40000000 count=1
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: Halt the PHYs processors operation
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: Upload the firmware into the on-chip memory
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: ^M0%^M1%^M2%^M3%^M4%^M5%^M6%^M7%^M8%^M9%^M10%^M11%^M12%^M13%^M14%^M15%^M16%^M17%^M18%^M19%^M20%^M21%^M22%^M23%^M24%^M25%^M26%^M27%^M28%^M29%^M30%^M31%^M32%^M33%^M34%^M35%^M36%^M37%^M38%^M39%^M40%^M41%^M42%^M43%^M44%^M45%^M46%^M47%^M48%^M49%^M50%^M51%^M52%^M53%^M54%^M55%^M56%^M57%^M58%^M59%^M60%^M61%^M62%^M63%^M64%^M65%^M66%^M67%^M68%^M69%^M70%^M71%^M72%^M73%^M74%^M75%^M76%^M77%^M78%^M79%^M80%^M81%^M82%^M83%^M84%^M85%^M86%^M87%^M88%^M89%^M90%^M91%^M92%^M93%^M94%^M95%^M96%^M97%^M98%^M99%^M100%
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: Reset the processors to start execution of the code in the on-chip memory
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: Verify that the processors are running: OK
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: Verify that the firmware has been loaded with good CRC: OK
May  4 22:05:08 kernel: Firmware loading completed successfully
The logs continue for another 15 seconds, general rebooting, then no logs until I did the manual power reboot nine hours later.

Similar logs from another user here: http://www.snbforums.com/threads/as...ta-stage-2-is-now-available.69116/post-650121

After manual reboot the logs do not show Blackfin B0 firmware loading. Anyone know what Blackfin B0 firmware does in AX-86U?
 
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why do you care. The logs are normal
 
Simply trying to understand why the WiFi was not working (WiFi stopped supplying internet, but could still access local network).
 

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