john9527
Part of the Furniture
Thanks for letting me know that worked. I'll pick up a change so you won't need to add the router for the next release.Holy shirt that worked Thanks!!
Thanks for letting me know that worked. I'll pick up a change so you won't need to add the router for the next release.Holy shirt that worked Thanks!!
Thanks for letting me know that worked. I'll pick up a change so you won't need to add the router for the next release.
kern.emerg kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for tun11 to become free. Usage count = 1
Not down.....works for me (I clicked on the link in your post). I use bit.ly to get some basic download stats since MS doesn't provide any....at least that I know of.
Btw I noticed a language error on the config page that opens after a factory reset (yeah we still have those ), it says "back main page" in the top left box.
Also, will a change of default behavior for wps button to toggle wifi be against user friendliness? We do know wps shouldn't b left enabled cause of security issues...
Uhh...no, it's not (at least on the 68U). I'll have to fire up the N66 to see if it's different.and John, any reason the enable wireless scheduler is default on with all days checked? Doesn't it mean one more process running for no reason?
Glad to hear it went OK. Just to double check before trying to answer the rest of your post that you did a factory reset after loading the firmware and reconfigured manually (didn't load a saved config file).Yesterday I've switched the firmware from merlin-380.58 to this fork. Everything went quite smooth without any big issues. And the AC56U is running fine. Big thanks John
Make sure your SSIDs don't contain any special characters including language double byte chars), only alphanumerics, dash and underscore. Including a single quote in the SSID is a common cause for the banner not displaying. Same advice for any client names. This fork doesn't have the CPU and memory graphs, only snapshots are available on the Tools tab.But I want to adress some points I've noticed:
1. Opening the web interface I've noticed some unused space in the upper part of the administration web interface and the missing "Status" register card, which shows the CPU und memory usage in the merlin firmware. Is this correct or is something broken?
Screenshot: https://pl.vc/1d0esm
Trim is not supported AFAIK. Attaching SSD drives has been a bit 'hit-or-miss', even on the latest Merlin.2. First I had some issues to reconnect my USB harddrives formatted with NTFS via modified fstab. The reason was that this fork seems to use another NTFS driver by Paragon and the filesystem parameter has to be changed from "tntfs" to "ufsd".
So I've read the Paragon manual regarding available mount parameters and wanted to use the "discard" parameter to use the trim-feature for my SSD drive. But it's not mounting and is flagged as "invalid parameter".
Is the included Paragon driver too old and doesn't support the discard-parameter yet or isn't it supported by the kernel? Apart from that the 5TB UB drives are working fine.
Manual: http://download.paragon-software.com/doc/ntfs_hfs_linux_9_4_user_manual.pdf
This fork uses the same level of dnsmasq as the latest Merlin, so I don't know of any reason it shouldn't work. I know there are some users that have very large hosts files for adblocking.3. I'm using a manually created hosts-file to block some malware- and ad-server. This hosts file has an filezise of about 14MB and was working fine with the merlin firmware.
With this fork I wasn't able to open any website as it seems to ran into an timeout. I also wasn't able to ping the website from my computer. Direct ping from the router was possible.
I'm now using an smaller version of the hosts-file with about 8MB size and it's working fine.
Is this an known limit with this fork or are there any options to use it like the merlin firmware?
Again, should be no difference in the spinup. The only thing I can think of, is that I have linux caching on by default, while Merlin's default is to periodically flush all the internal linux caches. So, I may be caching the drive directory structure while Merlin isn't. But it shouldn't cause a problem as long as the drive has a reasonable spoinup time. If you want to try to emulate the default Merlin behavior, log into the router and enter4. There seems also another behavior of the spin up feature of the harddrives. With merlin firmware as I opened a shared directory via SAMBA from a remote computer the connected harddrives started to spin up.
With this fork it shows the directory list and file structure, but doesn't spin up the drives. So when I open a movie file it plays fine for about 5 seconds and then crashes as the drive hasn't spin up yet.
Is there any parameter which influences this behavior?
This one is tougher.....yes we all know that WPS shouldn't be used, but I have trouble disabling the function of a button label WPS by default when it comes to new users. Also, you should note, the ability to change the WPS behavior is a MIPS unique function, not available on the ARM routers.Also, will a change of default behavior for wps button to toggle wifi be against user friendliness? We do know wps shouldn't b left enabled cause of security issues...
Yes, I did.Glad to hear it went OK. Just to double check before trying to answer the rest of your post that you did a factory reset after loading the firmware and reconfigured manually (didn't load a saved config file).
Both SSIDs and all clients don't have any special character.Make sure your SSIDs don't contain any special characters including language double byte chars), only alphanumerics, dash and underscore. Including a single quote in the SSID is a common cause for the banner not displaying. Same advice for any client names. This fork doesn't have the CPU and memory graphs, only snapshots are available on the Tools tab.
Ok.Trim is not supported AFAIK. Attaching SSD drives has been a bit 'hit-or-miss', even on the latest Merlin.
My, strange. Perhaps I will give it another try some time later. Or I just use the smaller version.This fork uses the same level of dnsmasq as the latest Merlin, so I don't know of any reason it shouldn't work. I know there are some users that have very large hosts files for adblocking.
Thanks, I will give it a try next weekend.Again, should be no difference in the spinup. The only thing I can think of, is that I have linux caching on by default, while Merlin's default is to periodically flush all the internal linux caches. So, I may be caching the drive directory structure while Merlin isn't. But it shouldn't cause a problem as long as the drive has a reasonable spoinup time. If you want to try to emulate the default Merlin behavior, log into the router and enter
nvram set drop_caches=1
nvram commit
and reboot. The trade-off is the drive will need to spin-up more frequently.
</ca>
<cert>
paste client certificate data here
</cert>
<key>
paste client key data here
</key>
It uses a milliwatt number. But bear in mind that whatever number you put in is translated behind the scenes into predefined "bands" of power. So, for example, there is no actual difference between entering 45, 50 or 55 mW, but there is between 65mW and 75mW.My question is still, how does this fork allow for changing the output wattage? Does it allow one to set milliwatt output, or is it like the main Merlin is presenting it as a slider with vague words?
Thanks for letting me know that worked. I'll pick up a change so you won't need to add the router for the next release.
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