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Hi. I recently purchased a Netduma R2 and so far it has been great, except for the Wifi.

 

In my settings, I can see that the Wifi is disabled, so I enable it. I can set the SSID, the password, etc. However, when I apply the changes, it is not actually saved. Navigating away and back to this screen make it look as if I never performed the previous step! Everything is gone.

 

Few things to consider:

- I cannot select any Wifi Channels or Channel Width. Personally i have the feeling that is the main culprit, but who knows?

- My latest troubleshooting was pointed towards the timezone settings, since this could affect the wifi channels? I've tried different regions and daylight saving enabled/disabled. No luck

- I already did a factory reset

- The wifi lights on the router don't turn on. So far, I haven't seen them blink even once.

- In the first use wizard, I've also tried to set the Wifi settings. I filled in all of the details and expected it to work, but it didn't.

- My firmware is up-to-date

- I've tried several device restarts (both my ISP modem as well as the Netduma R2)

- I've tried changing the settings from different browsers, including cleared cache

- All of the other functions in the router seem to work fine!

 

Is someone able to help out?

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Try this while connected via ethernet, disable WiFi entirely from the WiFi settings, reboot the router from the interface, wait 4 minutes, access, enable WiFi, apply, reboot from the interface, wait 4 minutes then see if they appear and if you can change the options.

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29 minutes ago, Netduma Fraser said:

Try this while connected via ethernet, disable WiFi entirely from the WiFi settings, reboot the router from the interface, wait 4 minutes, access, enable WiFi, apply, reboot from the interface, wait 4 minutes then see if they appear and if you can change the options.

Thank you for your reply. I have tried this, but unfortunately it did not work. The result is the same.

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56 minutes ago, Netduma Fraser said:

Could you provide a screenshot of your WiFi settings page please?

Here is how the screen looks when it loads and also when I filled in my configuration.

dumawifi_default.PNG

dumawifi_with_settings.PNG

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19 minutes ago, Pnmrx said:

Done. Will give this a try, thanks!

Added, you can find it here: https://forum.netduma.com/forum/144-netduma-r2-early-access/

Once the upgrade has been completed would recommend a factory reset as it's quite a change from your current version. Let us know how you get on!

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37 minutes ago, Netduma Fraser said:

Added, you can find it here: https://forum.netduma.com/forum/144-netduma-r2-early-access/

Once the upgrade has been completed would recommend a factory reset as it's quite a change from your current version. Let us know how you get on!

I succesfully upgraded the firmware and did a factory reset. Unfortunately, the problem persists. This time I also tried to leave the wifi settings from the "first start"-wizard default, which meant <empty> in my case. I was unable to do so, because these fields were mandatory. Is it normally expected to have the default device wifi settings pre-filled here? If so, this might also be a clue in what is going wrong here.

In any case, I followed the same steps as before, in order to set up my wifi, but the behavior remains identical to how it was on the previous firmware.

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11 hours ago, Netduma Fraser said:

Yes it should be filled in, could you provide the log from the System Information page please - one without doing anything and then getting the log after changing a WiFi setting please.

I don't think that any attempted changes to the wifi settings end up in my logs. I can see the same messages iterating over and over.

Below you can find the snippet I just took. The part until and including 07:47:03 was idle mode. Then I did the change to the wifi settings and compared the logs, which is the part from 07:47:10 and beyond.

However, it seems like it is giving me the same type of logging as before, which is the same thing over and over as far as I can read back. To me this suggests that the router is not even aware of the changes  I am trying to make.

Sat Nov 25 07:46:24 2023 daemon.err cli.lua[5141]: uci: Entry not found
Sat Nov 25 07:46:24 2023 daemon.err cli.lua[5141]: uci: Entry not found
Sat Nov 25 07:46:24 2023 daemon.err cli.lua[5141]: No such wireless device: wlan0
Sat Nov 25 07:46:24 2023 daemon.err cli.lua[5141]: No such wireless device: wlan1
Sat Nov 25 07:46:31 2023 daemon.warn odhcpd[1098]: A default route is present but there is no public prefix on lan thus we don't announce a default route!
Sat Nov 25 07:46:31 2023 daemon.err odhcpd[1098]: Failed to send to ff02::1%lan@br-lan (Permission denied)
Sat Nov 25 07:46:41 2023 daemon.err cli.lua[5141]: uci: Entry not found
Sat Nov 25 07:46:41 2023 daemon.err cli.lua[5141]: uci: Entry not found
Sat Nov 25 07:46:41 2023 daemon.err cli.lua[5141]: No such wireless device: wlan0
Sat Nov 25 07:46:42 2023 daemon.err cli.lua[5141]: No such wireless device: wlan1
Sat Nov 25 07:46:47 2023 daemon.warn odhcpd[1098]: A default route is present but there is no public prefix on lan thus we don't announce a default route!
Sat Nov 25 07:46:47 2023 daemon.err odhcpd[1098]: Failed to send to ff02::1%lan@br-lan (Permission denied)
Sat Nov 25 07:47:03 2023 daemon.warn odhcpd[1098]: A default route is present but there is no public prefix on lan thus we don't announce a default route!
Sat Nov 25 07:47:03 2023 daemon.err odhcpd[1098]: Failed to send to ff02::1%lan@br-lan (Permission denied)
Sat Nov 25 07:47:10 2023 daemon.err cli.lua[5141]: uci: Entry not found
Sat Nov 25 07:47:10 2023 daemon.err cli.lua[5141]: uci: Entry not found
Sat Nov 25 07:47:11 2023 daemon.err cli.lua[5141]: No such wireless device: wlan0
Sat Nov 25 07:47:11 2023 daemon.err cli.lua[5141]: No such wireless device: wlan1
Sat Nov 25 07:47:19 2023 daemon.warn odhcpd[1098]: A default route is present but there is no public prefix on lan thus we don't announce a default route!
Sat Nov 25 07:47:19 2023 daemon.err odhcpd[1098]: Failed to send to ff02::1%lan@br-lan (Permission denied)
Sat Nov 25 07:47:35 2023 daemon.warn odhcpd[1098]: A default route is present but there is no public prefix on lan thus we don't announce a default route!
Sat Nov 25 07:47:35 2023 daemon.err odhcpd[1098]: Failed to send to ff02::1%lan@br-lan (Permission denied)

 

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Ahh interesting okay, I've not seen this log entry before but to me it seems like the WiFi driver has probably failed. I'll pass it on to a dev to double check and see if there is anything we can do and I'll get back to you probably Monday/Tuesday if that's alright.

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34 minutes ago, Netduma Fraser said:

Ahh interesting okay, I've not seen this log entry before but to me it seems like the WiFi driver has probably failed. I'll pass it on to a dev to double check and see if there is anything we can do and I'll get back to you probably Monday/Tuesday if that's alright.

Yeah of course. Thanks for the quick support so far!

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On 11/30/2023 at 4:14 PM, Netduma Fraser said:

I haven't heard back yet, thanks for the reminder, I'll chase them.

I don't mean to push, but it has been a week and I still can't use the device properly. Can you give me an update?

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