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Unable to enable wireless
This morning the wireless went out on my router and I'm unable to turn it back on. When i go to the basic page is shows wireless off and a yellow caution sign on the setting, see attached. I have rese...
- The second to right LED on the top is actually a button that disables wireless. If you hold it down for 5 seconds, it will disable wireless on the device, and will show it disabled in the GUI but there's no way to re-enable it. To re-enable it, hold down the button again for 5 seconds, the lights for wireless on the left will turn on when it is back on.
I was cleaning yesterday and moved the router behind my TV, and the TV was just resting on top of it. I was using it all day but at some point apparently the TV moved enough to push the button... Kind of weird there's no entry in the log of when this is pushed though, too.
I woke up this morning to the exact same problem.
The advanced show it is activated for both 2.5 and 5, I've tried deactivating, saving, rebooting, re-activating, saving, rebooting. Deactivating/Reactivating/Saving without reboot... etc. Guest network not showing up, either. Tried same options on those.
It's like there's an overall wireless radio flag set to turn it off... IDK.
I've done everything short of restoring it to factory.
The only thing I did yesterday was I configured a LAN-attached wireless camera to upload pictures to the attached USB drive on motion. That is actually working, but I removed that, powered the device off, deleted the files it had uploaded, removed the USB drive even before reboot/etc. to try to rule that out. That was in the morning and I used the router on wireless all day, was browsing until I went to bed and obviously I didn't reconfigure the router in my sleep. :/
Logs don't show anything abnormal or any errors/warnings either.
The advanced show it is activated for both 2.5 and 5, I've tried deactivating, saving, rebooting, re-activating, saving, rebooting. Deactivating/Reactivating/Saving without reboot... etc. Guest network not showing up, either. Tried same options on those.
It's like there's an overall wireless radio flag set to turn it off... IDK.
I've done everything short of restoring it to factory.
The only thing I did yesterday was I configured a LAN-attached wireless camera to upload pictures to the attached USB drive on motion. That is actually working, but I removed that, powered the device off, deleted the files it had uploaded, removed the USB drive even before reboot/etc. to try to rule that out. That was in the morning and I used the router on wireless all day, was browsing until I went to bed and obviously I didn't reconfigure the router in my sleep. :/
Logs don't show anything abnormal or any errors/warnings either.