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R9000 AD7200 x10 Firmware Ver 1.0.5.24 kills WiFi
It seems frustrating upgrading firmware on the Netgear x10 R9000 . I recently upgraded to current version 1.0.5.24 and all the Wifi (2.4, 5, 60) cannot be enabled, all come in off state after power on...
Did you erase the nvram using the following commands via serial connection?
nvram erase
go
It seems either Netgear does not read this forum or their online personnel are not knowledgeable to help solve issues here. I have not been able to resolve this dead WiFi issue on the R9000 from FW upgrade. I am certain that it is SW/FW related and no HW issue. Only Netgear can resolve this FW issue that seemed to have plagued a number of people similarly.
The R9000 is unable to turn on the radio through the Wireless AP after I flashed with the latest FW. The iwconfig and apstats commands on the router through telnet reported the following as reported in the Wireless_log file in the router. There is something wrong with the Wireless AP control in the FW.
########### [ Show Wireless Settings ] #############
########### [ iwconfig ] #############
wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on
########### [ Associated station information ] #############
########### [ apstats ] #############
apstats: No application recognized options. Using defaults: AP level, non-recursive.
Use -h for help
AP Level Stats:
WLAN stats:
No radio interfaces found
########### [ 80211stats ] #############
########### [ athstats ] #############
########### [ wifitool ] #############
I could not get the Netgear FW to work. In the meantime, I have flashed it with the latest DD-WRT build and all the WiFi appear to be working correctly. As I said previously, this proves all the HW is working correctly. DD-WRT does not support the Plex server. The only reason I got this expensive router was to use the build-in Plex server, not for the useless 60GHz AD. Now I have to go back to run the Synology NAS which also has Plex build-in. Netgear needs to seriously test their firmware before releasing it. I certainly hope they can fix it in the next firmware release. Is anyone from Netgear reading this??
Just to let everyone know that this Wifi corruption issue has been finally resolved. The netgear bin did corrupt the nvram such that the overlay volume dismounted. I have completely reset the nvram (not simple factory reset) to true factory reset condition and the overlay volume remounted and all Wifi are back. Everything is good. Be very cautious on upgrading your Netgear firmware as Netgear is not there to help you when it bricks your router that is out of warranty. Took half a year to reolve this.
Did you erase the nvram using the following commands via serial connection?
nvram erase
go
Execute these commands through telnet into the router, courtesy of kamoj at snb.
WARNING: These commands will erase all your settings and should not be tried out if you are under warranty. Use at your own risk.
To make a real "Factory reset" issue these commands:
For R7800:Code:
nvram default
nvram commit
mtd erase netgear
reboot
For the R9000 the mtd command does not exist so you should try these commands instead:Code:
nvram default
nvram commit
ngmtd="$(awk -F: '/"netgear"$/ {print $1}' /proc/mtd | grep mtd)"
[ -n "$ngmtd" ] && flash_erase /dev/"$ngmtd" 0 0
reboot- I tried the commands on my R9000. Wifi still dead. Is Kamoj add-on mandatory for this procedure?