No, didn't misunderstand.....AC66U-B1 should work. Did you by chance capture a syslog?Did I completely misunderstood the compatibility of the AC66U-B1?
AC66U-B1
I strongly doubt that they could have come up with a more confusing naming scheme with their best efforts.AC66U Rev B1
Totally agree.....one alternative would have been to just continue their past convention and call it a AC66P if they didn't want to make a new model.I strongly doubt that they could have come up with a more confusing naming scheme with their best efforts.
Well, if you all think this is too quiet, lets stir the pot a bit.
Yesterday I picked up a new AC66U-B1 (Hw ver B1) and jumped right into it. Booted in the miniWeb and loaded the LTS. Despite a reload of the firmware, multiple Factory resets, JFFS formatting, manual configuration, script backup/restore using v25a, etc. I can't get it to work properly.
Here is what I found so far:
1 - Router seems to boot properly but at some point the power LED turns off and never turns on again.
2 - If the router is booting from a hardware power-on, the radios turn on (and the lights are on)
3 - If the router is booting from a software reboot, the radios don't turn on (and the lights turn off after briefly turning on)
Did I completely misunderstood the compatibility of the AC66U-B1?
Tomorrow I will revert it back to the default ASUS firmware to confirm I didn't get a dud, then I will go through a regular Merlin before testing the LTS again.
Suggestions?
No, didn't misunderstand.....AC66U-B1 should work. Did you by chance capture a syslog?
EDIT: Are you sure you got an AC66U-B1 (has fixed antenna's, and a USB3 port on the front) and not an AC66U Rev B1?
Don't give up yet....that's why this is a beta (thanks for trying it out!)I went back to Merlin .67 and everything works as expected (I mean, the lights, radio, etc... I didn't do any in-depth testing on that as it is not the final objective of this test)
Repeated the process to install .43 LTS v27 and got the same bad results (no radios, no power LED).
This makes me sad... I had high hopes for the AC66U_B1 to be a good replacement for the AC56U.
Don't give up yet....that's why this is a beta (thanks for trying it out!)
Can you append the results of the following commands....
nvram get odmpid
nvram get model
nvram get productid
ASUSWRT-Merlin RT-AC68U_3.0.0.4 Sat Aug 5 22:46:24 UTC 2017
admin@RT-AC66U_B1-FB90:/tmp/home/root# nvram get odmpid
RT-AC66U_B1
admin@RT-AC66U_B1-FB90:/tmp/home/root# nvram get model
RT-AC68U
admin@RT-AC66U_B1-FB90:/tmp/home/root# nvram get productid
RT-AC68U
Peter Quincy Taggert thanks youHere we go, what a mess, eh?
Code:ASUSWRT-Merlin RT-AC68U_3.0.0.4 Sat Aug 5 22:46:24 UTC 2017 admin@RT-AC66U_B1-FB90:/tmp/home/root# nvram get odmpid RT-AC66U_B1 admin@RT-AC66U_B1-FB90:/tmp/home/root# nvram get model RT-AC68U admin@RT-AC66U_B1-FB90:/tmp/home/root# nvram get productid RT-AC68U
One question, do you know what functions got moved into the prebuild modules private.o and tcode.o?
robo_ioctl_len
traffic_wanlan
check_trx
check_imagefile
check_crc
is_ac66u_v2_series
tcode_default_get
tcode_init_nvram_list
tcode_nvram_list
tcode_add_rc_support_list
tcode_del_rc_support_list
tcode_location_list
admin@RT-AC1900P:/tmp/home/root# nvram get odmpid
RT-AC1900P
admin@RT-AC1900P:/tmp/home/root# nvram get model
RT-AC68U
admin@RT-AC1900P:/tmp/home/root# nvram get productid
RT-AC68U
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I had another thought.......can you get another set of values for me?
nvram get 0:ccode
nvram get 0:regrev
nvram get 1:ccode
nvram get 1:regrev
ASUSWRT-Merlin RT-AC68U_3.0.0.4 Sat Aug 5 22:46:24 UTC 2017
admin@RT-AC66U_B1-FB90:/tmp/home/root# nvram get 0:ccode
CA
admin@RT-AC66U_B1-FB90:/tmp/home/root# nvram get 0:regrev
60
admin@RT-AC66U_B1-FB90:/tmp/home/root# nvram get 1:ccode
CA
admin@RT-AC66U_B1-FB90:/tmp/home/root# nvram get 1:regrev
60
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