chetansha
Skilled
Zino
Disciple
snbforum is the best resource. Try flashing Merlin fw via recovery. it could be something is physically damaged on the board, best way to diagnose a router is to use a ttl uart to usb module and read the serial output.
asuswrt-Merlin is the best most stable third party firmware for ASUS routers https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/
asuswrt-Merlin is the best most stable third party firmware for ASUS routers https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/
chetansha
Skilled
This will try today.
chetansha
Skilled
I flashed asus fw while in recovery mode , then flashed merlin fw afterwards.
I did have the usb thingies somewhere, will search for it.
The wifi led on router lit up momentarily when I reset router using the wps method. But after reset over, wifi led does not light up at all.
tech.monk
Adept
Try looking at https://openwrt.org/toh/asus/rt-ac88u
chetansha
Skilled
tried this now. after reset NVRAM, i try to upload the generic/openwrt-22.03.3-bcm53xx-generic-asus_rt-ac88u-squashfs.trx, nothing happens
tech.monk
Adept
did you powered-off and then powered on the device?, let me message you on whatsapptried this now. after reset NVRAM, i try to upload the generic/openwrt-22.03.3-bcm53xx-generic-asus_rt-ac88u-squashfs.trx, nothing happens
chetansha
Skilled
Hi, yes did power on and off
Btw, I am off WA temporarily .
chetansha
Skilled
While resetting using wps, the 2.4ghz lights up for few seconds. also now i see MAC address for 2.4ghz, its the same as LAN MAC ID
Zino
Disciple
imho mac address should be diff
chetansha
Skilled
no go either,
babhishek
Skilled
wireless radio is off, try enabling disabling, it does provide separate addresses for wired and wireless.
chetansha
Skilled
#RIP. after flashing to dd-wrt. its tata bye bye. only power light is up. oh well. i tried. it was semi dead any way
bobbyprajan
Disciple
There is a Asus Flash Tool which you can use to restore a corrupted flash. Maybe that will help
chetansha
Skilled
for that router needs to be in recovery mode. i did put in reocovery mode, installed DD-wrt , even then i could not see wifi. so kept it aside. yday took the router to fiddle with, it did not got dd-wrt interface, nor will it go to recovery mode.
bobbyprajan
Disciple
Sad. The Asus routers are very solid in my experience. I have an old WL-520GU lying around, that works well. It should be more than 10 years old now