Asuswrt-Merlin 374.40 is out

[reddice]

I only have my iTouch and Nexus 7 connected only to 5ghz and the range is amazing stronger signal than with sdk5. I don't use 2.4ghz except for printing and the Chromecast.

 

[nightanole]

I decides to flip to 5ghz. I can now get 720p youtube to work in the garage just fine now. With the original sdk6 drivers I could barely stream radio on 2.4ghz.

 

[mberteotti]

Just upgraded to 374.40 from 374.39-em on my RT-N66U. Great wifi coverage, near perfect firmware... Only traffic monitoring in 24h, daily, monthly still giving bogus results... It's a pity.

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[MarkyPancake]

Just upgraded to 374.40 from 374.39-em on my RT-N66U. Great wifi coverage, near perfect firmware.

Did you factory reset after the upgrade or did you just install on top of the old firmware and then continued using it?

 

[mberteotti]

As usual, I've done a factory reset after flashing... (nvram cleared).

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[dalmet]

I am running Merlin’s FW 374.40_0 on my RT-N66U. Recently I ran into an issue when logging on over SSH. I seem to have 0 permissions on the system. I can’t even get some output from ls. Running CMDs from the web interface works fine.

I also get an unusual prompt that looks like this: [admin@Router root]$
I have not had that before the problem began.

I’ve uninstalled entware and reverted back to optware recently as described in the wiki.

If there is an easy way to do a reset without losing all my OpenVPN settings any links on how to do it will be greatly appreciated.

 

[RMerlin]

I am running Merlin’s FW 374.40_0 on my RT-N66U. Recently I ran into an issue when logging on over SSH. I seem to have 0 permissions on the system. I can’t even get some output from ls. Running CMDs from the web interface works fine.

I also get an unusual prompt that looks like this: [admin@Router root]$
I have not had that before the problem began.

I’ve uninstalled entware and reverted back to optware recently as described in the wiki.

If there is an easy way to do a reset without losing all my OpenVPN settings any links on how to do it will be greatly appreciated.

Are you sure you are on the correct device? Your prompt indicates you are in the /root folder, which does not exist on this router - it should be /tmp/home/root. Unless you changed the location of that link, or changed to a different shell which does not display the full path like ash does.

 

[Ford Prefect]

.40 with poor range on 2.4GHz and RT-N66U

Hi RMerlin,

with this build, I experienced very poor range/connection stability when using
it on a N66U in repeater mode (only tested 2.4GHz band).

Where my laptop (sitting right next to the N66U) was able to establish a stable connection to the main router, the N66U, was not.
It was able to see the main router and connect, but connection would not last for more than 90secs.

..the N66U is now on .34_2_sdk5 and all is well.
I gather it would not suffer from the security issues when using it in repeater mode only,
so uograding to .40 is not necessary.

 

[dalmet]

Are you sure you are on the correct device? Your prompt indicates you are in the /root folder, which does not exist on this router - it should be /tmp/home/root. Unless you changed the location of that link, or changed to a different shell which does not display the full path like ash does.

100 % sure. I have no other device that has SSH running. pwd returns /tmp/home/root. I don’t know how to find out which shell I am running but the prompt seems to display only the current folder, not the entire path.

The following seems weird to me too:

[admin@Router root]$ ls -la
?-wxr--r-- 0 16832 3 0 Jan 1 1970 .

I have never seen Linux behave like this.

 

[RMerlin]

100 % sure. I have no other device that has SSH running. pwd returns /tmp/home/root. I don’t know how to find out which shell I am running but the prompt seems to display only the current folder, not the entire path.

The following seems weird to me too:

[admin@Router root]$ ls -la
?-wxr--r-- 0 16832 3 0 Jan 1 1970 .

I have never seen Linux behave like this.

I think some people experienced something like this when they changed the default shell from the built-in ash to something else like bash. Make sure you didn't install another shell through Entware/Optware.

 

[dalmet]

I am not aware that I have changed anything. I basically deleted entware and installed and uninstalled the Asus Download stuff according to the wiki. Then I did an ipkg update & upgrade as well as the update to your latest firmware. Somewhere during these steps this change happened and I cannot say for sure what caused it.

Could you tell me how to find out what shell I’m running and how to revert that change?

 

[ANJ9686]

Are there any special antenna that can go through concrete wall?

At the moment I have my main router and 2nd router in bridge mode with home plug (300mbps) works perfectly but not fast enough


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[RocketJSquirrel]

Are there any special antenna that can go through concrete wall?

Drill, baby, drill!

 

[KGB7]

Need WiFi-Pro options to be accessible when router is in Repeater Mode. Other wise i cant make any changes.


Thanks.

 

[Pericynthion]

Need WiFi-Pro options to be accessible when router is in Repeater Mode. Other wise i cant make any changes.





Thanks.

Don't you just make the changes on the main router SSID and it err.. repeats them? I had a similar requirement which is why I had to turn the second N66 into an AP rather than a repeater (and connected them via powerline/MoCA adapters)


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[KGB7]

Don't you just make the changes on the main router SSID and it err.. repeats them? I had a similar requirement which is why I had to turn the second N66 into an AP rather than a repeater (and connected them via powerline/MoCA adapters)


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I dont think it does for other band if its not connected to the first router.

 

[teh_g]

Is there anything helpful I can provide if my RT-AC68U had a reboot?

Nothing terribly interesting happened in the system log.

A few "Mar 24 12:05:23 dnsmasq-dhcp[783]: DHCPACK(br0)" messages, then it rebooted.

 

[Pericynthion]

I dont think it does for other band if its not connected to the first router.

Ahh I see - so you're trying to repeat one band but run the other as a unique radio on that same device. Tricky, but you may be able to do it with DD-WRT and the funky bridge modes they offer.

 

[ANJ9686]

Drill, baby, drill!

Are you serious?


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[RMerlin]

Is there anything helpful I can provide if my RT-AC68U had a reboot?

Nothing terribly interesting happened in the system log.

A few "Mar 24 12:05:23 dnsmasq-dhcp[783]: DHCPACK(br0)" messages, then it rebooted.

No, the issue is known to be in the SDK version Broadcom provided Asus with. Asus is expecting to get a newer version of the SDK from Broadcom, and will release a new firmware based on it when they're ready.