Gargoyle wifi stability on a WZR-HP-300GN

[Connor1]

Hi All!

I am currently running Openwrt Backfire 10.03.1-rc4 on a Buffalo WZR-HP-300GN router. I am experiencing wifi drops with my Macbook connected in 802.11n mode.

I can see in Openwrt log:

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hostapd: wlan0: STA 90:21:55:xx:xx:xx IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to inactivity

or

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hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:26:bb:xx:xx:xx WPA: received EAPOL-Key 2/2 Group with unexpected replay counter

I have read elsewhere that there are people running Gargoyle on the same router who are not seeing anymore wifi drops. Can someone report his experience?

If this is true, how this would be possible? As far as I understand Gargoyle is "just" a webinterface for Openwrt with minor changes.

Any suggestions/ideas?

Thanks!

Connor

[Eric]

Gargoyle is just an interface for openwrt, but the releases are based on different OpenWrt versions in the Backfire branch. 1.3.9 is based on r24714, 1.3.8 is based on r24025, 1.3.6 and 1.3.7 are based on r23750 and 1.3.5 is based on r22830.

It may be that the bug you report has been fixed in the most recent versions, or possibly was introduced more recently and the old versions are the ones working properly. I would be very interested if you could test this with the latest release (1.3.9) which is based on several svn revisions passed rc4 and let me know if the problem still exists.

[Connor1]

Sure, I will try it later today. Can I upgrade directly from the Openwrt Luci web interface, right?

In the meanwhile if someone has already the Gargoyle 1.3.9 running on the Buffalo I would be really glad if he could share his experience.

Thanks!

Connor

[DoesItMatter]

Yes, you can upgrade right from the Luci Web Interface.

Use the SYSUPGRADE binary, not the TFTP one.

Should upgrade just fine.

I would suggest maybe doing a full reset, then upgrade, then
reset again just in case, as I don't think all the settings are 100%
cross-functional.

I upgraded from 1.3.8 -> 1.3.9 and had a corrupted config
and had to recover via serial console - am sure was just a glitch
though, but if you don't know how to do serial, it can be a pain.

[Connor1]

It seems that I have finally found a solution to fix my disconnection issues. The problem is related to WMM option, as reported here:

https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=27953

I think for now I will stick with Openwrt as I have done a lot of changes to the configuration (pptp, usb, etc.).

Thanks!!


Connor