WNDR3700 Wireless disabled

[Lusa]

Just successfully from stock firmware to Gargoyle installed. image file donwloaded from the Gargoyle site. But i'm getting stuck with the wireless options. If I want to activate this then I have everything set up, but then when I click on save then again wireless is disabled. If i do a wifi command I get a message that radio1 is disabled. now I then attempt to create the etc / config / wireless file to modify and add a country code and remove the line radio1 disabled. but still want the wireless connection does not up and wifi will don't work.. With openWRT and DD-WRT wireless will be activated.. What am I doing wrong?

[Lusa]

Nobody can help me?
I would like to try Gargoyle but after succesfull install gargoyle_1.3.8-ar71xx-wndr3700-squashfs-factory.img everything works fine but except wireless will not be activated.

[caeci11ius]

I'm also having this issue. Installed firmware (tried the upgrade from the netgear firmware first, then tried the other image for upgrade from previous version), set timezone (Australia/Sydney) and a password, then tried to enable the wireless with the default settings. No joy there...after a brief pause it just went right back to being off. I recall something about having to set a region code with openwrt and the ar71xx driver, could this have something to do with it?

[caeci11ius]

/etc/config/wireless

config 'wifi-device' 'radio0'
option 'type' 'mac80211'
option 'channel' '11'
option 'macaddr' '30:46:9a:0f:5b:54'
option 'hwmode' '11ng'
option 'htmode' 'HT20'
list 'ht_capab' 'SHORT-GI-40'
list 'ht_capab' 'TX-STBC'
list 'ht_capab' 'RX-STBC1'
list 'ht_capab' 'DSSS_CCK-40'

config 'wifi-device' 'radio1'
option 'type' 'mac80211'
option 'channel' '36'
option 'macaddr' '30:46:9a:0f:5b:56'
option 'hwmode' '11na'
option 'htmode' 'HT20'
list 'ht_capab' 'SHORT-GI-40'
list 'ht_capab' 'TX-STBC'
list 'ht_capab' 'RX-STBC1'
list 'ht_capab' 'DSSS_CCK-40'
option 'disabled' '1'

config 'wifi-iface' 'cfg2'
option 'device' 'radio0'
option 'mode' 'adhoc'
option 'network' 'lan'
option 'ssid' 'OpenWrt'
option 'encryption' 'none'

If that helps someone...

[DoesItMatter]

I think all of the devices that Gargoyle fully supports are only
Single Radio units - I'm not sure if its got the configuration
capability in the GUI for dual radio units - YET - may be coming
soon in a future release.

I am not sure if Eric even has one of the dual-radio units yet.
We may have to get him one to tinker with!

[caeci11ius]

Hmm, that's interesting. There's at least one other router with dual radios in the list (The D-Link DIR-825). In fact, that router is almost identical in terms of specs to the WNDR3700 (the difference being that it has external antennas, though the stock antennas there perform worse than the WNDR3700s internal ones). Haven't seen anyone mention non-working wireless in relation to that...would have thought I would. Perhaps only one of the radios is working though?

[DoesItMatter]

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wndr3700

Hmm - it looks like it is fully supported by Backfire 10.03

Not sure why your wireless is not working.

Have you seen this post? -

http://www.gargoyle-router.com/phpbb/vi ... ?f=6&t=979

Due to "regulatory restrictions" - sometimes the radio won't work
properly if it detects overlaps.

I did this "noscan" option and forced the radio on.

Might want to try that through a telnet session and see if
you can enable both radios.

If it does work - then I'm not sure what can be done.

I don't know if Eric will want to include the "noscan" as a default
option since in the USA, it would be violating regulations.

[caeci11ius]

Had a look at the wireless configs that are coming out of gargoyle's interface using ssh...they're kinda messy, so I'm guessing that perhaps the dual wireless thing isn't properly supported yet. I was wrong about the DIR-825 being in the supported list...much like the WNDR3700, there is an image available, but it's not in the list of supported routers. Found a thread with other folks having similar issues with DIR-825 here: http://www.gargoyle-router.com/phpbb/vi ... =825#p4251. I may have to go and use vanilla openwrt, or mess with the configs manually and then not touch them via the gui, or get dd-wrt or something until this is working properly.

Would be happy to chip in a bit of cash to get Eric a dual radio router if there's other folks around interested in that, and if he doesn't actually have one yet...I'm loving the idea of quota monitoring by device as unlimited plans aren't the norm in Australia and I sharehouse...why Gargoyle seems to be the first firmware supporting this feature I'm not sure...would have thought it was a fairly obvious and useful one...

[caeci11ius]

Got the wireless up with the following config:


root@Gargoyle:/etc/config# vim wireless


config 'wifi-device' 'radio0'
option 'type' 'mac80211'
option 'channel' '11'
option 'macaddr' '30:46:9a:0f:5b:54'
option 'hwmode' '11ng'
option 'htmode' 'HT40-'
list 'ht_capab' 'SHORT-GI-40'
list 'ht_capab' 'TX-STBC'
list 'ht_capab' 'RX-STBC1'
list 'ht_capab' 'DSSS_CCK-40'
option 'country' 'AU'

config 'wifi-iface'
option 'device' 'radio0'
option 'mode' 'ap'
option 'network' 'lan'
option 'ssid' 'OpenWrt24'
option 'encryption' 'psk2'
option 'key' 'password'

config 'wifi-device' 'radio1'
option 'type' 'mac80211'
option 'channel' '161'
option 'macaddr' '30:46:9a:0f:5b:56'
option 'hwmode' '11na'
option 'htmode' 'HT40+'
list 'ht_capab' 'SHORT-GI-40'
list 'ht_capab' 'TX-STBC'
list 'ht_capab' 'RX-STBC1'
list 'ht_capab' 'DSSS_CCK-40'
option 'country' 'AU'

config 'wifi-iface'
option 'device' 'radio1'
option 'mode' 'ap'
option 'network' 'lan'
option 'ssid' 'OpenWrt58'
option 'encryption' 'psk2'
option 'key' 'password'

It would seem that the only thing that would really need to happen to get basic support for dual radios into gargoyle would be to add a second wifi settings box that writes a second set of settings to the config file. Currently, if you try to modify the settings with gargoyle, the wifi-iface config will disappear for the second radio. The web gui doesn't like having dual radio configs, so the radio will come up as disabled again when you try to show the page again, even though it's actually working (as long as you provided appropriate settings...if you choose channel 11 and 40MHz, you might have issues here (see my other thread).

[HWgeek]

config 'wifi-device' 'radio1'
option 'type' 'mac80211'
option 'channel' '36'
option 'macaddr' '30:46:9a:0f:5b:56'
option 'hwmode' '11na'
option 'htmode' 'HT20'
list 'ht_capab' 'SHORT-GI-40'
list 'ht_capab' 'TX-STBC'
list 'ht_capab' 'RX-STBC1'
list 'ht_capab' 'DSSS_CCK-40'
option 'disabled' '1'

In your second radio listing radio1 you left option disabled at "1" if you set it to 0, it would enable wireless. Or delete the line, as you found with your updated config file.

I am not sure, but I loaded gargoyle 1.5.8 and it worked just fine with the wdr4300 (dual 2.5 and 5 ghz radio) so would expect any supported/similar dual product to work. And since the underpinnings are openwrt any product supported there should work here.