PPPoE is working fine?
I noticed some users have mentioned experiencing disconnection issues.
It depends on so many different settings, setups and stuff that you can’t really say “working” / “non-working”
For me the Flint2 is working nearly since the first time I removed the bubble wrap.
Since the developers have never released a stable, bug-free version since the router was released and don’t seem to care about it in the time that has passed, you will have to get used to using OpenWRT or a fork of it (e.g. ImortalWRT).
Mine Pppoe is working fine in UK. There was different Vlan ID in UK broadband providers.
Thanks… I am rather concerned as to how long this router (indeed all of GL.inet’s routers) will continue to receive ongoing firmware updates in line with OpenWRT, let alone for security updates?? I do not want to install OpenWRT… I am paying for the convenience of the GL.inet GUI.
Since you want to use a simplified stock UI you’d probably be better off with the TUF-AX6000 or TUF-AX4200 if you can find them on sale. Then just use NextDNS if you want to block ads.
Both the TUF-AX6000 and TUF-AX4200 support OpenWrt, so you could install OpenWrt in the future once updates from ASUS slow down.
I find this comment too harsh. The developers are overly eager to develop two different versions of firmware for the MT6000 that are largely free of errors. They already are for my use case. Claiming they don’t care is exaggerated and inappropriate.
this firmware seems to be working well. Will the fixes be in the next firmware update?
I’m still using the 4.5.2 firmware mine shipped with after reading the vast amount of problems people have been having after updating to later version. This is my first GL.iNet product and TBH, I feel let down by it. Seems like many of these issues should have been found out and addressed in the beta testing, rather than having people who paid good money for a product be testing and troubleshooting.
The fixes will be in the firmware 4.5.9.
Thanks for reporting. It is a bug. Will fix.
Is there any estimate on when version 4.5.9 will be available?
new firmware, will it improve anything?
I have firmware version 4.5.8 installed.
And the router is quite stable for my use.
It is cascaded to my provider’s ONT and provides me with a 1G-2G connection on the ETH interface and 1.5G on WiFi 5Ghz simultaneously.
The 2.4Ghz WiFi is more unstable, but for home automation it is sufficient.
It also handles IPv6 perfectly.
Then I use AdGuard Home (which, thanks to a script, is constantly updated to the latest version available) and WireGuard (as clients a GL-iNet Beryl AX and Notebooks) and these also work perfectly.
So, for my use, it is an excellent router (of course, always waiting for a firmware that will make the device even more stable) and then the GL-iNet GUI is incomparable while maintaining the possibility via LuCI to make more specific configurations on OpenWRT.
I’m eagerly waiting to also report that this device is stable for me.
Unfortunately I seem to have 1 client in the wifi network that seems to be able to cause an issue.
Fri Apr 12 08:17:47 2024 daemon.info hostapd: wlan1: STA mac_address IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Fri Apr 12 08:17:47 2024 daemon.info hostapd: wlan1: STA mac_address IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 4)
Fri Apr 12 08:17:47 2024 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan1: STA-OPMODE-SMPS-MODE-CHANGED mac_address off
Fri Apr 12 08:17:48 2024 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan1: AP-STA-CONNECTED mac_address auth_alg=open
Fri Apr 12 08:17:48 2024 daemon.info hostapd: wlan1: STA mac_address WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN)
Fri Apr 12 08:17:48 2024 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan1: EAPOL-4WAY-HS-COMPLETED mac_address
Fri Apr 12 08:18:00 2024 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[1]: DHCPDISCOVER(br-lan) mac_address
Fri Apr 12 08:18:00 2024 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[1]: DHCPOFFER(br-lan) 192.168.8.151 mac_address
Fri Apr 12 08:18:00 2024 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[1]: DHCPREQUEST(br-lan) 192.168.8.151 mac_address
Fri Apr 12 08:18:00 2024 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[1]: DHCPACK(br-lan) 192.168.8.151 mac_address
....
Fri Apr 12 11:14:03 2024 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan1: STA-OPMODE-SMPS-MODE-CHANGED mac_address dynamic
Fri Apr 12 11:16:02 2024 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan1: STA-OPMODE-SMPS-MODE-CHANGED mac_address off
Fri Apr 12 11:18:11 2024 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan1: STA-OPMODE-SMPS-MODE-CHANGED mac_address dynamic
Fri Apr 12 11:19:55 2024 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan1: STA-OPMODE-SMPS-MODE-CHANGED mac_address off
Fri Apr 12 11:19:57 2024 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan1: STA-OPMODE-SMPS-MODE-CHANGED mac_address dynamic
Fri Apr 12 11:19:58 2024 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan1: STA-OPMODE-SMPS-MODE-CHANGED mac_address off
Fri Apr 12 11:20:00 2024 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan1: STA-OPMODE-SMPS-MODE-CHANGED mac_address dynamic
Fri Apr 12 11:20:01 2024 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan1: STA-OPMODE-SMPS-MODE-CHANGED mac_address off
This seems to be an openwrt bug.
From the moment I observe the last log lines the client in question gets limited to 50Mbps.
I also had the impression the whole wifi network got slowed down, but that is a bit harder too prove.
After some searching I found that you can go to the advanced setting of the wifi card and change the “MIMO Power Save Mode” to No SMPS. This seems to resolve the issue. (Credits go to Fredo on the OpenWRT issues tracker - "STA-OPMODE-SMPS-MODE-CHANGED" what that mean? - #26 by Fredo - Network and Wireless Configuration - OpenWrt Forum)
Update:
The issue doesn’t seem to be entirely gone.
After a period of inactivity, I got back at the laptop in question and noticed the wlan speed got stuck again at 50 Mbps.
I observe this in the router log:
Fri Apr 12 12:02:04 2024 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA mac_address IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Fri Apr 12 12:02:04 2024 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA mac_address IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 3)
Fri Apr 12 12:02:05 2024 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan0: AP-STA-CONNECTED mac_address auth_alg=open
Fri Apr 12 12:02:05 2024 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA mac_address WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN)
Fri Apr 12 12:02:05 2024 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan0: EAPOL-4WAY-HS-COMPLETED mac_address
Fri Apr 12 12:02:07 2024 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[1]: DHCPREQUEST(br-lan) 192.168.8.151 mac_address
Fri Apr 12 12:02:07 2024 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[1]: DHCPACK(br-lan) 192.168.8.151 mac_address
Fri Apr 12 12:02:16 2024 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan1: DFS-CAC-COMPLETED success=1 freq=5260 ht_enabled=0 chan_offset=0 chan_width=3 cf1=5290 cf2=0
...
Fri Apr 12 12:11:39 2024 daemon.info hostapd: wlan1: STA mac_address IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Fri Apr 12 12:11:39 2024 daemon.info hostapd: wlan1: STA mac_address IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 2)
Fri Apr 12 12:11:39 2024 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan0: Prune association for mac_address
Fri Apr 12 12:11:39 2024 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan0: AP-STA-DISCONNECTED mac_address
Fri Apr 12 12:11:41 2024 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan1: AP-STA-CONNECTED mac_address auth_alg=open
Fri Apr 12 12:11:41 2024 daemon.info hostapd: wlan1: STA mac_address WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN)
Fri Apr 12 12:11:41 2024 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan1: EAPOL-4WAY-HS-COMPLETED mac_address
Fri Apr 12 12:11:44 2024 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[1]: DHCPREQUEST(br-lan) 192.168.8.151 mac_address
Fri Apr 12 12:11:44 2024 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[1]: DHCPACK(br-lan) 192.168.8.151 mac_address
Fri Apr 12 12:12:09 2024 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA mac_address IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to inactivity (timer DEAUTH/REMOVE)
Fri Apr 12 13:08:56 2024 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan1: STA-OPMODE-SMPS-MODE-CHANGED mac_address dynamic
Disconnecting and connecting again to the wifi resolves the speed issue…
Can you give us some details about how to do this? Thanks.
Here you go Script: Update AdGuard Home
This might be a long shot, but is there a way I can take a backup of the entire flash inside the router?
Like how you can create an image of a disk… I’d like to experiment with some of these beta versions and also mess about with using OpenWRT natively etc, however I’d like a way to quickly restore everything back to how I have it set up right now.
I’ve got quite a few customisations that currently take more than an hour to get everything back to how I like it, so being able to image the flash and restore it back would be useful.
I’ve seen a method for SD cards but apparently it doesn’t work with NAND.
You mean creating a image with custom configuration?
If you managed to get the build environment working you need to create a folder called files
inside the root directory of the build tools and there you can mirror a copy of /etc/config
like files/etc/config
but you have to be sure these are stable because it will be written to /rom/ to in the image with other words resets will put these files back.
For mt76 patches you can download them to package/kernel/mt76/patches
and if you want to test a pull request as a patch just write .patch
in the web address in the end and then download it.
Though setting up build tools alone can be difficult the build tools dependencies described on the readme are not all the dependencies, this is really try and error with logging, also you need gcc12 and g++12 but the current wsl ubuntu does not have it, you have to add a newer ubuntu apt repo inside the sources list and then fix both gcc and g++ by using a symlink, or use a vm with a more up to date ubuntu.
ln -s /usr/bin/gcc12 /usr/bin/gcc -f
ln -s /usr/bin/g++12 /usr/bin/g++ -f
Though maybe gcc12 and g++12 are no longer a requirement, but i’m not sure about that since i noticed commits for the build bot to allow it, but compiling with these higher versions of gcc and g++ seem to increase performance on the cpu of the router somehow👍
with make menuconfig
you can enter a menu where you can set pre installed packages, you probably also want to install all feeds before that or the packages are not visible do so on each git pull you do: ./scripts/feeds update -a
./scripts/feeds install -a
and then use make menuconfig
so it knows the feeds are updated.
Here is also a wiki from openwrt for setting up build tools:
Just to see if I’m the only one on this “problem”:
If you insert an USB Stick on Flint 2, after 30 minutes can you notice it’s quite warm, around 38°C? The room temperature is 20°C
No readings/writings. Just leave it in standby, wait 30 minutes, remove it and check the temperature of the Flash drive Tip.