Lost: 5Ghz radio RT-N66U unable to activate!

[Pierino]

I've got it backed up. I can't figure out how to send it to you. The file is too big to attach it here and pm's don't seem to allow attachments.

 

[RMerlin]

I think there is a few number of routers with no pci/x/x init at all

That could be the reason, just like a few RT-AC66U shipped with a faulty (or even missing?) firmware flash. Flashing power led out of the box, flashing the router through recovery would sort these DOA out.

 

[darsh.g]

Very nice firmware in deed thanks to Andy Padavan and the rest!!

Since i have internet Disconnects from the ISP side i want to be able to connect to my mobile hotspot via the BN750DB. i have tried the AP and AP client mode (while in operation->router mode) but for some reason the router does not show up in the connected devices of the android Hotspot list even when i keep the hotspot open. I have made sure to keep the hotspot channels same and security open to make sure they connect.

Since many of my Office Devices are on Static IP i do not want to use the Operation->AP mode.

Is there any possible Mistake that i my have been doing.

or is it completely impossible to connect as a AP-Client on Operation->Router Mode.

IMO the only problem that is there is to allow apclii0 with udhcpc and wan.
is that possible?

 

[xon]

I was able to change it for a brand new Asus..so my problem is solved .

 

[Fireradier]

Issue caused by Tomato

I hate to dredge up an older post but I have the same issue. No 5GHz band at all.
It all started when i flashed Shibby Tomato on my spare RT-N66U just to see how it was different from Merlin. After the successful flash I noticed that the 5GHz was not there anymore. After several resets and and clearing the NVRAM as suggested it still was missing, so I flashed back to Merlin. Still no 5Ghz.
There is no MAC address for it under the System tab either.
Any ideas what I should attempt next? I have two of these so I can use one as a comparison.
I did watch the log file as suggested earlier in this thread and there is no mention of the eth2 when the radio reboots.

 

[bruno99]

same problem over here with RT-N66U

I have the same problem too. I flashed from tomato to asus-merlin then back to tomatousb and lost my 5 GHz. Not even showing up in status overview.

From what I understand, you have to update your CFE.bin with a version like (1.0.1.3). But before you can do that, you'll have to edit this file with your router's info (mac address).

I'm looking for more info about how to do that.

 

[ryzhov_al]

bruno99, not only a CFE can be a reason of 5GHz disappearing. Please, provide an output of following command in PM:

strings /dev/mtd0ro

 

[Fireradier]

bruno99, not only a CFE can be a reason of 5GHz disappearing. Please, provide an output of following command in PM:

strings /dev/mtd0ro

I can help with this output too since mine is jacked up in the same way. Is it from PuTTY or how do I get the output for you?

Edit: I used Putty and copied/pasted that command. I got an output from the command but am not sure how to save it to a file to send?

 

[bruno99]

bruno99, not only a CFE can be a reason of 5GHz disappearing. Please, provide an output of following command in PM:

strings /dev/mtd0ro

Hi Ryzhov_al,

Here it is: (At the end, there were a lot of garbage characters I didn't copy here, is it normal???)

4$P*
<$P*
<$P*
fJ5d
<%XA
)5$@
4%@
ZSIB
FLSHx
boardtype=0xF5B2
boardnum=00
boardrev=0x1100
boardflags=0x00000110
boardflags2=0x00000000
sromrev=8
clkfreq=600,300,150
xtalfreq=25000
et0phyaddr=30
et0mdcport=0
et0macaddr=50:46:XX:XX:XX:XX
vlan1ports=1 2 3 4 8*
vlan1hwname=et0
vlan2ports=0 8u
vlan2hwname=et0
landevs=vlan1 wl0 wl1
wandevs=et0
lan_ipaddr=192.168.1.1
lan_netmask=255.255.255.0
gpio4=wps_button
boot_wait=on
gpio7=robo_reset
watchdog=3000
pci/1/1/venid=0x14E4
pci/1/1/boardvendor=0x14E4
pci/1/1/sromrev=9
pci/1/1/boardflags=0x80001200
pci/1/1/boardflags2=0x00100000
pci/1/1/devid=0x4332
pci/1/1/macaddr=50:46:XX:XX:XX:XX
pci/1/1/aa2g=7
pci/1/1/ag0=0
pci/1/1/ag1=0
pci/1/1/ag2=0
pci/1/1/txchain=7
pci/1/1/rxchain=7
pci/1/1/antswitch=0
pci/1/1/tssipos2g=1
pci/1/1/extpagain2g=3
pci/1/1/pdetrange2g=0
pci/1/1/triso2g=3
pci/1/1/antswctl2g=0
pci/1/1/elna2g=2
pci/1/1/maxp2ga0=0x64
pci/1/1/pa2gw0a0=0xFE74
pci/1/1/pa2gw1a0=0x1AAD
pci/1/1/pa2gw2a0=0xF980
pci/1/1/maxp2ga1=0x64
pci/1/1/pa2gw0a1=0xFE8F
pci/1/1/pa2gw1a1=0x1C2D
pci/1/1/pa2gw2a1=0xF924
pci/1/1/maxp2ga2=0x64
pci/1/1/pa2gw0a2=0xFE7F
pci/1/1/pa2gw1a2=0x1971
pci/1/1/pa2gw2a2=0xF9C8
pci/1/1/cckbw202gpo=0x3333
pci/1/1/cckbw20ul2gpo=0x3333
pci/1/1/legofdmbw202gpo=0x55555555
pci/1/1/legofdmbw20ul2gpo=0x55555555
pci/1/1/mcsbw202gpo=0xFC955555
pci/1/1/mcsbw20ul2gpo=0xFC955555
pci/1/1/mcsbw402gpo=0xFFFF9999
pci/1/1/mcs32po=0x9999
pci/1/1/legofdm40duppo=0x4444
pci/1/1/parefldovoltage=35
pci/1/1/ccode=0
pci/1/1/regrev=39
pci/1/1/ledbh0=2
pci/1/1/ledbh1=5
pci/1/1/ledbh2=4
pci/1/1/ledbh3=11
pci/1/1/ledbh12=7
pci/1/1/leddc=0xFFFF
pci/1/1/temps_period=5
pci/1/1/tempthresh=120
pci/1/1/temps_hysteresis=5
pci/1/1/phycal_tempdelta=0
pci/1/1/tempoffset=0
pci/2/1/venid=0x14
pci/2/1/boardvendor=0x14E4
pci/2/1/sromrev=9
pci/2/1/boardflags=0x90000200
pci/2/1/boardflags2=0x00200000
pci/2/1/devid=0x4333
pci/2/1/macaddr=50:46:5D:XX:XX:XX
pci/2/1/aa5g=7
pci/2/1/ag0=0
pci/2/1/ag1=0
pci/2/1/ag2=0
pci/2/1/txchain=7
pci/2/1/rxchain=7
pci/2/1/antswitch=0
pci/2/1/tssipos5g=1
pci/2/1/extpagain5g=3
pci/2/1/pdetrange5g=0
pci/2/1/triso5g=3
pci/2/1/antswctl5g=0
pci/2/1/elna5g=2
pci/2/1/maxp5gla0=0x40
pci/2/1/pa5glw0a0=0xFE87
pci/2/1/pa5glw1a0=0x1637
pci/2/1/pa5glw2a0=0xFA8E
pci/2/1/maxp5ga0=0x5E
pci/2/1/pa5gw0a0=0xFEE1
pci/2/1/pa5gw1a0=0x1663
pci/2/1/pa5gw2a0=0xFAF7
pci/2/1/maxp5gha0=0x5E
pci/2/1/pa5ghw0a0=0xFEDC
pci/2/1/pa5ghw1a0=0x160D
pci/2/1/pa5ghw2a0=0xFAD2
pci/2/1/maxp5gla1=0x40
pci/2/1/pa5glw0a1=0xFE9A
pci/2/1/pa5glw1a1=0x1591
pci/2/1/pa5glw2a1=0xFABC
pci/2/1/maxp5ga1=0x5E
pci/2/1/pa5gw0a1=0xFEAC
pci/2/1/pa5gw1a1=0x1676
pci/2/1/pa5gw2a1=0xFA82
pci/2/1/maxp5gha1=0x5E
pci/2/1/pa5ghw0a1=0xFEB0
pci/2/1/pa5ghw1a1=0x16C3
pci/2/1/pa5ghw2a1=0xFA6F
pci/2/1/maxp5gla2=0x40
pci/2/1/pa5glw0a2=0xFE9A
pci/2/1/pa5glw1a2=0x1591
pci/2/1/pa5glw2a2=0xFABC
pci/2/1/maxp5ga2=0x5E
pci/2/1/pa5gw0a2=0xFE9B
pci/2/1/pa5gw1a2=0x15FA
pci/2/1/pa5gw2a2=0xFAAC
pci/2/1/maxp5gha2=0x5E
pci/2/1/pa5ghw0a2=0xFEDD
pci/2/1/pa5ghw1a2=0x1684
pci/2/1/pa5ghw2a2=0xFADB
pci/2/1/legofdmbw205glpo=0x00000000
pci/2/1/legofdmbw20ul5glpo=0x00000000
pci/2/1/legofdmbw205gmpo=0x75311111
pci/2/1/legofdmbw20ul5gmpo=0x75311111
pci/2/1/legofdmbw205ghpo=0x75311111
pci/2/1/legofdmbw20ul5ghpo=0x75311111
pci/2/1/mcsbw205glpo=0x00000000
pci/2/1/mcsbw20ul5glpo=0x00000000
pci/2/1/mcsbw405glpo=0x00000000
pci/2/1/mcsbw205gmpo=0x75311111
pci/2/1/mcsbw20ul5gmpo=0x75311111
pci/2/1/mcsbw405gmpo=0x75311111
pci/2/1/mcsbw205ghpo=0x75311111
pci/2/1/mcsbw20ul5ghpo=0x75311111
pci/2/1/mcsbw405ghpo=0x75311111
pci/2/1/mcs32po=0x2222
pci/2/1/legofdm40duppo=0x2222
pci/2/1/parefldovoltage=60
pci/2/1/ccode=0
pci/2/1/regrev=2
pci/2/1/ledbh0=2
pci/2/1/ledbh1=5
pci/2/1/ledbh2=4
pci/2/1/ledbh3=11
pci/2/1/ledbh12=7
pci/2/1/leddc=0xFFFF
pci/2/1/temps_period=5
pci/2/1/tempthresh=120
pci/2/1/temps_hysteresis=5
pci/2/1/phycal_tempdelta=0
pci/2/1/tempoffset=0
regulation_domain=US
regulation_domain_5G=Q2
secret_code=76501111
pmon_ver=CFE 5.100.127
bl_version=1.0.1.2
wait_time=3


Thanks for helping!

 

[bruno99]

bruno99, not only a CFE can be a reason of 5GHz disappearing. Please, provide an output of following command in PM:

strings /dev/mtd0ro

By the way, here is the code I got when I was connected via serial (pay attention to the last lines where Eth2 doesn't look to be enabled):[/B]

I had to create another post since it exceeds 10000 characters.




Decompressing...done
tmp_ret= 0


CFE version 5.100.127 based on BBP 1.0.37 for BCM947XX (32bit,SP,LE)
Build Date: 五 12月 9 10:10:49 CST 2011 (boyau@localhost.localdomain)
Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Broadcom Corporation.

Init Arena
Init Devs.
Boot partition size = 262144(0x40000)
et0: Broadcom BCM47XX 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Controller 5.100.127
CPU type 0x19749: 600MHz
Tot mem: 131072 KBytes

CFE mem: 0x80700000 - 0x8079D320 (643872)
Data: 0x807330F0 - 0x807363B0 (12992)
BSS: 0x807363B0 - 0x80737320 (3952)
Heap: 0x80737320 - 0x8079B320 (409600)
Stack: 0x8079B320 - 0x8079D320 (8192)
Text: 0x80700000 - 0x807330E8 (209128)

Committing NVRAM...done
Device eth0: hwaddr XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX, ipaddr 192.168.1.1, mask 255.255.255.0
gateway not set, nameserver not set
Null Rescue Flag.
Loader:raw Filesys:tftp Dev:eth0 File:: Optionsnull)
Loading: TFTP Server.
Failed.
Could not load :: Timeout occured
Loader:raw Filesys:raw Dev:flash0.os File: Optionsnull)
Loading: ...... 3322440 bytes read
Entry at 0x80001000
Closing network.
Starting program at 0x80001000
Linux version 2.6.22.19 (root@asus) (gcc version 4.2.4) #13 Sun Jan 19 12:36:59 CET 2014
CPU revision is: 00019749
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 07fff000 @ 00000000 (usable)
memory: 08000000 @ 87fff000 (usable)
Zone PFN ranges:
Normal 0 -> 131072
HighMem 131072 -> 589823
early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 32767
0: 557055 -> 589823
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 65535
Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock2 noinitrd console=ttyS0,115200
Primary instruction cache 32kB, physically tagged, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Synthesized TLB refill handler (20 instructions).
Synthesized TLB load handler fastpath (32 instructions).
Synthesized TLB store handler fastpath (32 instructions).
Synthesized TLB modify handler fastpath (31 instructions).
PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes)
CPU: BCM5300 rev 1 pkg 0 at 600 MHz
Using 300.000 MHz high precision timer.
console [ttyS0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Memory: 254916k/131068k available (2646k kernel code, 6936k reserved, 393k data, 204k init, 131072k highmem)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
NET: Registered protocol family 16
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
PCI: Initializing host
PCI: Reset RC
PCI: Initializing host
PCI: Reset RC
PCI: Fixing up bus 0
PCI/PCIe coreunit 0 is set to bus 1.
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:00.1 (0004 -> 0006)
PCI: Fixing up bus 1
PCI/PCIe coreunit 1 is set to bus 2.
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.1 (0004 -> 0006)
PCI: Fixing up bus 2
NET: Registered protocol family 2
Time: MIPS clocksource has been installed.
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
squashfs: version 3.2-r2 (2007/01/15) Phillip Lougher
io scheduler noop registered (default)
HDLC line discipline: version $Revision: 4.8 $, maxframe=4096
N_HDLC line discipline registered.
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xb8000300 (irq = 8) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at MMIO 0xb8000400 (irq = 8) is a 16550A
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
MPPE/MPPC encryption/compression module registered
NET: Registered protocol family 24
PPPoL2TP kernel driver, V0.18.3
PPTP driver version 0.8.5
Physically mapped flash: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 16-bit bank
Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table at 0x0040
Physically mapped flash: CFI does not contain boot bank location. Assuming top.
number of CFI chips: 1
cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness.
Flash device: 0x2000000 at 0x1c000000
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "pmon"
0x00040000-0x01fe0000 : "linux"
0x0016d058-0x00aa0000 : "rootfs"
0x01fe0000-0x02000000 : "nvram"
0x00ae0000-0x01fe0000 : "jffs2"
Found an serial flash with 0 0KB blocks; total size 0MB
sflash: found no supported devices
dev_nvram_init: _nvram_init
_nvram_init: allocat size= 65536
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
u32 classifier
OLD policer on
Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (2048 buckets, 16384 max)
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
ipt_account 0.1.21 : Piotr Gasidlo <quaker@barbara.eu.org>, http://www.barbara.eu.org/~quaker/ipt_account/
net/ipv4/netfilter/tomato_ct.c [Jan 17 2014 14:42:33]
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 10
ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
NET: Registered protocol family 17
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
emf: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
et_module_init: passivemode set to 0x0
et_module_init: et_txq_thresh set to 0x0
bcm_robo_enable_switch: EEE is disabled
eth0: Broadcom BCM47XX 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Controller 6.30.39.31 (r341183)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:01.0 (0000 -> 0002)
eth1: Broadcom BCM4331 802.11 Wireless Controller 6.30.102.9 (r366174)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:01.0 (0000 -> 0002)
wl driver 6.30.102.9 (r366174) failed with code 21
/ # eth2: No such device
lo: File exists

 

[ryzhov_al]

Hi!

I had to create another post since it exceeds 10000 characters.

I was expecting using PM (private messages) for those listings

Is it the last asuswrt\asuswrt-merlin release?

 

[bruno99]

No, it's tomato usb shibby: tomato-K26USB-1.28.RT-N5x-MIPSR2-117-AIO-64K

 

[ryzhov_al]

CFE NVRAM variables looks healthy, no need to touch it.

You may try to reset NVRAM by this way. If it won't help then better to report this issue to Shibby.

 

[bruno99]

Thanks Ryzhov_al,

But it didn't work. I don't know what else to do...

update: I finally found a work around to make it work. I just restored an old configuration file and my 5GHz came back. I just don't have to make a NVRAM erase.

 

[Fireradier]

What do you mean by restoring an old configuration file?
Did you have a back up of your settings and restored that? Or did you flash an older version of Merlin or an older Factory?
I have the same missing 5Ghz issue since flashing Tomato so I would like to fix mine also. I do have 2 identical routers so if it needs a backup file restored I can make on with my good router and flash it on my broken router.

 

[bruno99]

I had a backup of my settings. I just restored it after an upgrade (shibby v 119) and it is working fine since fews days. Without a glitch with both 2.4 and 5 GHz.