user12a

I have downgraded back to NG's V1.01.20 FW that still has telnet accessible. WiFi still no go. Will have to try different things.

Can someone knowledgeable from Netduma please take a look at this startup debug log and find what is wrong with the wifi starting up with the 3.3.363 bin on the xr700 and offer a fix? Also noted that the wifi temp entries in the debug.htm page are blank showing all wifi are off. Thx. XR700-duma3.3-debug-log.zip

It was not easy to do TFTP. I tried multiple times following Netgear’s instructions with tftpf64 and the simple procedure for nmrpflash (thanks e38BimmerFN). Both methods failed to load the new bin. However I finally followed the boot recovery procedure using nmrpflash and I was able to successfully load the new 3.3 bin overwriting the old bin. *** However this tftp load did NOT fix my WiFi after hours spent! Still no WiFi. *** All 3 WiFi mode lights 2.5/5/60 come on immediately after the power button is pressed, with the 2.5/5 lights come on dimmer at about half intensity. Normally these lights should not come on at the beginning of boot. They stay the same throughout during boot before the antennae red lights come on and after boot the same way. As I mentioned before, iwconfig showed no wireless connection. Somehow the new 3.3 really did something very wrong. This problem is not independent of bin versions as you suggested, may be very specific to this new bin. I did not have any problem upgrading multiple bins before. Anyway I need a method to fix the WiFi specifically as this bin killed my WiFi.

There is no problem downgrading and upgrading FW in the normal interface, Usually the TFTP method is not reliable as the handshake is not always established. I just need to get my XR700 wifi fixed as it is relating directly to loading the Duma update bin. I had no problem previously but seem to be relating to this 3.3.363 bin specifically. It was working perfectly until I tried this 3.3.363 bin. This is an expensive router to be broken like this. I wouldn't recommend anyone else try this bin upgrade without this issue being fixed. Can you send me a new bin that can fix the wifi ? Apparently you guys are aware of this issue.

I tried it. Still no wifi. It only turns off and on the lights at the 2 buttons at the end. The 2.4 and 5 wifi lights are still dim the same way. iwconfig tells me that there is no wireless extensions. Can you find out and tell me what is the router shell command to manually turn on and off the wi-fi ? I know this for the R9000, same HW, but apparently it is different for the Duma OS. Also note that the antenna red lights are on even though there is no wifi.

The 3.3.363 bin killed my WiFi on the XR700. I have not been able to recover it. I just got word on the new bin release and updated mine today. Everything looked fine initially. Did all the speed test and checked all the basic settings. As I was clicking through to see all the new settings, suddenly a small window popped up and mentioned some illegal command even though I have not changed anything. It froze. I reset both my computer and the router. Then I noticed that that 2.5/5 wifi lights are dimly lit, perhaps 50% intensity and flashing even when the router was initially turned on and stay in same state. Usually they remain off until wifi is established. Then I noticed there is no wifi. The wifi setting page is blank. The dashboard showed the wifi is disabled. But the advanced wireless showed that wifi is enabled. I tried resetting with the paperclip through the reset hole. Nothing changed afterwards. Then I downgrade the FW to a version 20 with telnet and went in to reset the NVRAM to factory condition. I went through all the new router setup but wifi still will not come back. I have also upgraded back to 3.3.363 and same wifi problem. I tried the wifi button on the router but did not do anything. I went in the setup and changed the wifi enable off and back on. It did nothing. The wifi lights remained to be about ~50% intensity but not flashing, and the AD light is at full intensity. The radio is not on. No SSID detected as the radio is not transmitting. I have spent a few hours and cannot get the wifi back to work. It is kind of a bummer after waiting this long and then the new bin half bricked my router without wifi. Now I have to go back to my R9000. I actually have another XR700 but I wouldn’t touch that one. Can anyone help?