[repeat a hotspot] wdr3600/freeWifi (FR)

[Youbloub]

Hello,
I use gargoyle for 6 months now.
Today I wanted to try to use repeater fonction.
And after a (bad?) configuration, I can't see repeated wifi.
Can't acces with rj45.

Try to reset from Switch.
Now can't acces router. (And arp return nothing)
What can I do?

[Youbloub]

ok,
so I succesfull acces to router by power on, and when system led flash, hold reset switch as led blink rapidly.

set static ip for my pc,
telnet 192.168.1.1 (ssh don't work)

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mount_root
modprobe fuse
mount /dev/sda1 /usb
(don't now why, can't mount usb in fat32, so format in it ntfs)
mtd -r write gargoyle_1.8.1-ar71xx-wdr3600-factory.bin firmware

and get router ok !

[ispyisail]

I think you need to use the latest version for that feature to work

[tapper]

Hi dude wen you get the router back up and running flash to 1.9.1 as 1.8.x has bugs.

[Youbloub]

Hi dude wen you get the router back up and running flash to 1.9.1 as 1.8.x has bugs.

thanks,
I will try

[Youbloub]

So..
to repeat/bridge the hotspot:
in gateway mode that work, but this isn't what I want.

in repeater It don't work cause I think AP's IP and netmask are not good.
I connect to the hotspot with my phone and launch an "arp"
I get a connection to 10.55.255.254
with a "ifconfig", I get different network:
ip 10.50.133.254 netmask 255.248.0.0

under gateway mode router I get :
WAN DNS Server(s):10.55.255.254
212.27.40.240
212.27.40.241

I have tried with the two ip configuration in AP and this netmask.
but I can't get an ip from the host.
I see wifi from my repeater, but can't get IP from host router

so how to find wich AP ip and net mask I must configure to set a repeater?

why can't we let these fields blank (the choice of wifi hotspot must be enought for the router to configure itself)

please, some help ?


//NEW//
tried direct connection from computer to hotspot:

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arp -a
gateway (10.63.255.254) at 00:07:cb:00:01:00 [ether] on wlp3s0
//LINSSID give me C6:6E:1F:08:AA:70 for the hotspot I try to reach//
 ifconfig

wlp3s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 10.57.138.217  netmask 255.248.0.0  broadcast 10.63.255.255
        inet6 fe80::8f08:11a0:cc75:a0a  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether ac:72:89:6a:f1:8a  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 49298  bytes 58563879 (55.8 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 46745  bytes 5267929 (5.0 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

I don't understand the different IP between host and me.
It seems that the hotspot change IP at each connection.
so How to configure the repeater ?