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Sbruner's avatar
Sbruner
Aspirant
Sep 06, 2015
Solved

Nighthawk R7000 wireless option unavailable

I have a R7000 I've used for a while with no issues. This evening the wireless stopped working. The checkbox to "enable wireless router radio" is grayed out and unavailable. Checking the logs I not...
Firmware
Wireless radio
  • Sbruner's avatar
    Sbruner
    Sep 06, 2015
    A reset worked. Thanks so much
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shadowsports
Hero
Sep 06, 2015

Start by resetting the router, loading defaults.  Save and restart.  If this doesn't haelp, I would manually reflash, load setup defaults, save and restart.  Let us know how you make out.  

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aVIP2u
Initiate
Nov 17, 2015

I have the same problem.  The recent firmware update shut down the wireless radio and it is greyed out.  

 

I tried 

(1) reboot from within the router settings/admin page = no results

(2) unplug, wait, plug back in = no results

 

I have the follwoing:

 

Hardware VersionR7000
 
Firmware VersionV1.0.4.30_1.1.67
 
GUI Language VersionV1.0.4.30_2.1.38.1
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    aVIP2u
    Initiate
    Nov 17, 2015

    Replying to my own post - -

     

    Searching elsewhere on the internet, I found that, there are two buttons on the top of the router (right side).  They look like the LED's unless you feel them with your finger.  The second one from the right is the WiFi "on/off" button.  You have to press & hold it for 2 seconds. In my case, it looked like nothing happened.  I then had to go back into Settings and the little check boxes were no longer greyed out.  Click the box(es), click "Apply", then it worked.

     

    P.S.  my wife had set something down on top of the router, inadvertently pressing the button.  Now I have a sign on it not to do that.