I am a R9000 user and long been using Voxel FW and Kamoj addon.
I also have a XR700 which has identical HW as the R9000 that runs the Duma OS.
I just upgraded the XR700 to this new major release Duma 3.3 FW and lost all WiFi in a few minutes. I actually was checking out the new OS for a while until the interface suddenly froze. I reboot and found all WiFi’s were gone. The router was working perfectly before this FW upgrade. I realize the R9000 and the XR700 are commonly subjected to FW loading corruption. I have been unable to bring back the XR700 WiFi.
The XR700 uses the same basic netgear kernel as the R9000.
I have tried simple reset, factory reset, downgrading to an older bin, and reloading bin through TFTP, toggling wifi off/on switch at the advanced wireless setting, tried the wireless on/off button.
Also I have tried Kamoj’s methods of flash_erase nvram, wlan down up toggle
None worked to bring WiFi back. I have also tried loading in the ddwrt bin and no wifi was detected and then tftp back to the netgear bin. Voxel bin will not load in on this
The 2.4/5/60 wifi lights immediately turn on after power button is pushed on, with the 2.4/5 lights dimmer at about 50% intensity. They stay same throughout and the antenna red lights turn on after booting. The WiFi lights coming immediately on is abnormal. System Info tells all WiFi are disabled and the temperature reporting is blank for all Wifi in the debug.htm. It is unlikely that both Atheros controllers and the 60G controller all failed together in HW.
iwconfig did not find any wifi connection, that wlan0, ath1 and ath0 are missing.
lspci showed that the Atheros controllers are not loaded at sysinit.
I think the sysinit section pertaining to wireless must be corrupted, perhaps the phy address or some parameter. Is there a section of the nvram pertaining to the wireless that can be reset to fix this or something else? Is the EEPROM going bad? I have re-flashed a few time before this upgrade but generally not many times on the XR700. All other router functions seem ok.
Anyone has any ideas to bring the Wifi back?
Voxel please help too.
Thx.
Here are some of the errors I saw:
phy for wifi device wifi1 not found
wifi1(qcawifi): disable failed
phy for wifi device wifi0 not found
wifi0(qcawifi): disable failed
(same enable errors)
wifi1 no private ioctls
/sbin/wlan: eval: 1: cannot create /sys/class/net/wifi1/led: Directory nonexistent
…
I also have a XR700 which has identical HW as the R9000 that runs the Duma OS.
I just upgraded the XR700 to this new major release Duma 3.3 FW and lost all WiFi in a few minutes. I actually was checking out the new OS for a while until the interface suddenly froze. I reboot and found all WiFi’s were gone. The router was working perfectly before this FW upgrade. I realize the R9000 and the XR700 are commonly subjected to FW loading corruption. I have been unable to bring back the XR700 WiFi.
The XR700 uses the same basic netgear kernel as the R9000.
I have tried simple reset, factory reset, downgrading to an older bin, and reloading bin through TFTP, toggling wifi off/on switch at the advanced wireless setting, tried the wireless on/off button.
Also I have tried Kamoj’s methods of flash_erase nvram, wlan down up toggle
None worked to bring WiFi back. I have also tried loading in the ddwrt bin and no wifi was detected and then tftp back to the netgear bin. Voxel bin will not load in on this
The 2.4/5/60 wifi lights immediately turn on after power button is pushed on, with the 2.4/5 lights dimmer at about 50% intensity. They stay same throughout and the antenna red lights turn on after booting. The WiFi lights coming immediately on is abnormal. System Info tells all WiFi are disabled and the temperature reporting is blank for all Wifi in the debug.htm. It is unlikely that both Atheros controllers and the 60G controller all failed together in HW.
iwconfig did not find any wifi connection, that wlan0, ath1 and ath0 are missing.
lspci showed that the Atheros controllers are not loaded at sysinit.
I think the sysinit section pertaining to wireless must be corrupted, perhaps the phy address or some parameter. Is there a section of the nvram pertaining to the wireless that can be reset to fix this or something else? Is the EEPROM going bad? I have re-flashed a few time before this upgrade but generally not many times on the XR700. All other router functions seem ok.
Anyone has any ideas to bring the Wifi back?
Voxel please help too.
Thx.
Here are some of the errors I saw:
phy for wifi device wifi1 not found
wifi1(qcawifi): disable failed
phy for wifi device wifi0 not found
wifi0(qcawifi): disable failed
(same enable errors)
wifi1 no private ioctls
/sbin/wlan: eval: 1: cannot create /sys/class/net/wifi1/led: Directory nonexistent
…