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Bigrbob
Aspirant
Oct 25, 2022
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R7800 Firmware V1.0.2.92 update messed up readyshare

Nighthawk R7800 Firmware V1.0.2.92 update messed up readyshare. After the reboot the drives show up on the readyshare web screen, but does not show up on filemanagers on my LAN. Linux Mint (2 differe...
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    Bigrbob
    Oct 28, 2022

    I rolled it back to 1.0.2.90, now readyshare works as before.

     

    Thanks

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wifi_problems
Tutor
Nov 24, 2022
As already explained, you do not need to roll back to older firmware to use ReadySHARE. It works just fine for me with the newest firmware. So it is possibly a problem at the user end.

Would you share steps you used to mount drive in windows/linux?
For me and OP, the old ways of mounting didnt work as soon as upgraded to .92 but downgrading back to .90 worked as before. So clearly there is something wrong with the update.

Thanks.

 

 

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wifi_problems
Tutor
Nov 22, 2022

Ever since I updated the FW on R7800 router from .90 to .92, it has been showing few problems

 

Problem 1: The Readyshare harddisk can not be mounted on both windows and linux machines. I confirmed this by reverting to .90 FW version.

 

Problem 2: Suddenly not more than approx 20 devices could get internet but do connect to wifi. Again reverting to .90 fixed this.

 

Following is the Release notes of .92 FW version update and there is no mention on any update related to above problems. Time machine is an apple thing I think and it doesnt affect me.

 

Enhancements:

  • Removed the legacy Time Machine backup feature.

Security Fixes:

  • Fixes security vulnerabilities.

 

 

Any ideas what has really changed in this FW version and how we can fix the above problems?