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MR80 router loses configuration on re-boot
Hi All, I am hoping someone can give me a clue as to what I can do to prevent my MR80 router from loosing all its configuration anytime it is rebooted. My setup includes one MR80 main router and anot...
NavM5 wrote:
Hi All, I am hoping someone can give me a clue as to what I can do to prevent my MR80 router from loosing all its configuration anytime it is rebooted. My setup includes one MR80 main router and another MR80 router set in AP mode ...
You could rule out hardware issues by swapping these two MR80s. If the problem persists, it is a configuration thing.
To make it worse; when I do attempt to load the configuration setting from a backup file; that too does not help as the router brings me to setting up security questions and basically walks me through a fresh setup again.
I always disable password recovery.
Good idea; I will try to swap my main router with the AP router and report back my findings.
Any progress on this?
NavM5 wrote:
Good idea; I will try to swap my main router with the AP router and report back my findings.
I did swap the main MR80 router with the access point router and yes it does seem like the fault is with the main router. I tried manually updating the firmware of the the problematic router to various older version but not once could I keep the router from resetting after soft reboot or a hard reboot. Which means that I am not able to set it as an access point since to apply the AP setting it requires a reboot and hence triggers the reset. Is there any particular firmware version or hack that can help me here? Or is this basically a brick?
