HP have become real scam lately. The amount of information sharing requests you must deny while installing a new printer is mind boggling. Been through it for two or three customers these past few months, and it was as bad as if I was trying to install a freeware bundled with Bonzo Buddy, Ask toolbar and what not.Much like how HP bricked a bunch of printers earlier this week with a firmware update to enforce their DRM and subscription services...
Dunno, depends on when asd was implemented.
another vendor perhaps?
A manual power cycle might be needed before you can flash the latest Asuswrt-Merlin (388.11) or stock (386_51xxx).I'm going to try accessing the file system over SSH tomorrow and see what's happening.
The fixed signature should have been downloaded by now, or else it will be downloaded following a reboot.The ones I need to deal with tomorrow are the Qualcomm with 382 firmware. What needs to be removed if it allows deleting a file? I've read something about /jffs/asd/* but it's 11.30pm already and I can't find it. A person there will give me TeamViewer access to a PC. We can reboot, enable SSH before they lock up again and then? I'm in doubt I can use WinSCP. Anything we can do in SSH?
If you can SSH into the router try the following, if you haven't done so already, to see what's listed in the ASD directory:Anything we can do in SSH?
cd /jffs/asd
ls -l
rm chknvram20230516
or rm /jffs/asd/chknvram20230516
) and rebooting their routers to fix the Asus bug from last week. After reboot supposedly the router will pull down a new version of the "chknvram" file from Asus.sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
nvram show | awk '{print length(), $0 | "sort -n -r"}' | cut -d"=" -f 1 | head -n 20
for line in `nvram show | grep ^[^=]*=$ `; do var=${line%*=}; nvram unset $var; done; nvram commit
I noticed this with my recent install of two new HP printers for our home. This behaivor is becomimg the norm.HP have become real scam lately. The amount of information sharing requests you must deny while installing a new printer is mind boggling. Been through it for two or three customers these past few months, and it was as bad as if I was trying to install a freeware bundled with Bonzo Buddy, Ask toolbar and what not.
Only with HP, AFAIK. I installed Brother and Canon printers these past few months as well, none of them involving data sharing requests (beyond the typical "Register your product" form that is easily skipped).This behaivor is becomimg the norm.
Roger that. I have a Canon color inkjet and a Brother monochrome laserjet nad they do do whatever I ask of them. No malarkey!Only with HP, AFAIK. I installed Brother and Canon printers these past few months as well, none of them involving data sharing requests (beyond the typical "Register your product" form that is easily skipped).
We are ready to replace our HP printer for this reason. I hate having to login to use their app. It’s ridiculous.Only with HP, AFAIK. I installed Brother and Canon printers these past few months as well, none of them involving data sharing requests (beyond the typical "Register your product" form that is easily skipped).
oh i meant i wanted to remove the modem provided by comcast (thought that might be faulty) and wanted to replace it with MB8600 that i had found from facebook market place but i did not buy the mb8600 because turns out it was an asus issueI'm a bit confused on whether the modem you were using that you wanted to replace was an MB8600 or one provided by Comcast. But if it was\is an MB8600 have you been happy with the way it performs on Comcast?
"chknvram20230516"
Only with HP, AFAIK. I installed Brother and Canon printers these past few months as well, none of them involving data sharing requests (beyond the typical "Register your product" form that is easily skipped).
abit new here with ssh and stuff seen comment on reddit i believe thats what u you did? currently on stoke firmware with no issue but when i install back the merlin version the issue is stil there and i just found how to delete so will try to do that later onBingo! We have 4x APs up and running again.
Exactly the same file, CPU on 100% and RAM on 99%. Qualcomm hardware on 382 firmware. The owner there was rebooting the system periodically and I was doing the surgery fast one AP at a time because the routers have only 64MB RAM with 15MB available after boot and lock up quite fast. Once locked they have no chance to update themselves online and even scheduled reboot wasn't working.
Thank you, @bennor.
I've been using brother printers for years, decades actually, and been happy with them.As discussed in other threads - there are so many reasons why Brother is a great choice for printers...
This is perfectly normal. Asus pushes a different signature for Asuswrt-Merlin devices.@RMerlin just wanted to bring you this to an attention that being the owner of AC-5300 when ssh into router i seen this "chknvram2021083002" while on merlin firmware so i went ahead flashed the oem firmware and ssh into it again and seen the "chknvram20230518" so i went ahead reset the router and than flashed back the latest merlin firmware upon checking via ssh i see "chknvram2021083002" but everything is working. as prior to reset i could not access internet
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