kristiangg
New Around Here
Hi everyone,
I have an ASUS RT-AX56U that has lost all WiFi functionality after a factory reset and firmware update. The router works fine over LAN, but no 2.4GHz or 5GHz WiFi networks appear, and the web interface always asks for “Country Code” but never activates the radio.
After some research, I found that the “factory” (or “manufacturing”) partition is missing from my router. When I check `/proc/mtd`, there is no partition named “factory” or “manufacturing” (mtd10 appears as “misc1” and contains only garbage data, not WiFi calibration).
Here’s my `/proc/mtd` output for reference:
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 05f00000 00020000 "rootfs"
mtd1: 05f00000 00020000 "rootfs_update"
mtd2: 00800000 00020000 "data"
mtd3: 00100000 00020000 "nvram"
mtd4: 05f00000 00020000 "image"
mtd5: 05f00000 00020000 "image_update"
mtd6: 10000000 00020000 "dummy1"
mtd7: 10000000 00020000 "dummy2"
mtd8: 00100000 00020000 "misc3"
mtd9: 02f00000 00020000 "misc2"
mtd10: 00800000 00020000 "misc1"
mtd11: 05638000 0001f000 "rootfs_ubifs"
mtd12: 0001f000 0001f000 "METADATA"
mtd13: 0001f000 0001f000 "METADATACOPY"
mtd14: 0033682b 0001f000 "filestruct_full.bin"
mtd15: 006c8000 0001f000 "data"
And if I run `strings /dev/mtd10 | head -40`, I only see “UBI#”, “nvram”, and random characters.
I understand that I need to restore the “factory” partition (mtd10, WiFi calibration data) to make WiFi work again. I have SSH access and am comfortable with Linux commands.
**Would someone with a working RT-AX56U be willing to share a dump of their factory partition or guide me through the process to recreate/restore it?**
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you in advance!
(Location: Spain, but any dump or guidance from a similar device would help.)
I have an ASUS RT-AX56U that has lost all WiFi functionality after a factory reset and firmware update. The router works fine over LAN, but no 2.4GHz or 5GHz WiFi networks appear, and the web interface always asks for “Country Code” but never activates the radio.
After some research, I found that the “factory” (or “manufacturing”) partition is missing from my router. When I check `/proc/mtd`, there is no partition named “factory” or “manufacturing” (mtd10 appears as “misc1” and contains only garbage data, not WiFi calibration).
Here’s my `/proc/mtd` output for reference:
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 05f00000 00020000 "rootfs"
mtd1: 05f00000 00020000 "rootfs_update"
mtd2: 00800000 00020000 "data"
mtd3: 00100000 00020000 "nvram"
mtd4: 05f00000 00020000 "image"
mtd5: 05f00000 00020000 "image_update"
mtd6: 10000000 00020000 "dummy1"
mtd7: 10000000 00020000 "dummy2"
mtd8: 00100000 00020000 "misc3"
mtd9: 02f00000 00020000 "misc2"
mtd10: 00800000 00020000 "misc1"
mtd11: 05638000 0001f000 "rootfs_ubifs"
mtd12: 0001f000 0001f000 "METADATA"
mtd13: 0001f000 0001f000 "METADATACOPY"
mtd14: 0033682b 0001f000 "filestruct_full.bin"
mtd15: 006c8000 0001f000 "data"
And if I run `strings /dev/mtd10 | head -40`, I only see “UBI#”, “nvram”, and random characters.
I understand that I need to restore the “factory” partition (mtd10, WiFi calibration data) to make WiFi work again. I have SSH access and am comfortable with Linux commands.
**Would someone with a working RT-AX56U be willing to share a dump of their factory partition or guide me through the process to recreate/restore it?**
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you in advance!
(Location: Spain, but any dump or guidance from a similar device would help.)