Flint 3 Web Gui

apoorfellowsoldier · July 19, 2025, 5:13pm

Hello,

I recently got the Flint 3 and it arrived with firmware version 4.7.13.

I am having the problem accessing the web gui/luci using mozilla/Google chrome (it just shows a white page and sometimes just 'loading' until connection fails). I tried factory reset the router and it worked after a few minutes but with no luck after. I downloaded the stable firmware 4.7.11 and it worked for a day and the issue persisted. I cleared cache and cookies from web browser with no luck. I tried using HTTP/S to access web gui with no luck. The GL app works pretty well. I just wanted to bring this to your attention to see if this can be fixed in the future stable version firmware or if others are having the same issue.

admon · July 19, 2025, 5:14pm

Do you use any anti virus software on your PC? Try to disable it, since the TLS cert of the router will always be invalid - this might raise some alerts or cause this issues.

apoorfellowsoldier · July 20, 2025, 1:08pm

Thank you for your reply!

I do have anti-virus installed. I uninstalled it, restarted computer and issue still persists. I never had this issue with the anti-virus installed with the Flint 2. Upgraded to Flint 3 for WiFi 7.

Miles · July 21, 2025, 4:13am

Hello.
I would like to further confirm the following information:

Is the client accessing the router network via wireless or Ethernet? And does it obtain an IP address?
Is your mobile phone connected and accessible normally? If not, please run the following command, you can PM and provide me with the content.

a. netstat -nap|grep -i nginx
b. ps -w
c. cat /var/log/nginx/error.log
d. sysupgrade -b /tmp/log.tar

apoorfellowsoldier · July 21, 2025, 5:12am

Hello, thank you for your time.

Yes, I am able to get an ip from my router. I've been trying to connect via phone(wireless), desktop(ethernet) and laptop(wireless) to no avail.
I will send you a PM when I figure this out. This is my first time in the forum

apoorfellowsoldier · July 21, 2025, 5:39am

Can you send me a PM, I can't message you since I am new to the forum

admon · July 21, 2025, 7:44am

I upgraded your account, you can now send PMs.

9b9e69c2-4b75-4420 · July 21, 2025, 9:54am

Try using 'Private Mode' (Firefox) or 'Incognito' (Chrome). It should be under some sort of menu entry like 'New private window.'

apoorfellowsoldier · July 21, 2025, 12:52pm

I have, issue still persists

phantasm22 · July 21, 2025, 4:07pm

How did it come with 4.7.13? We are waiting on 4.7.12 with nginx recompiled. Any ETA?

9b9e69c2-4b75-4420 · July 22, 2025, 4:09pm

Strange... very strange. Okay, let's skip the GUI aspect for the moment. IDK what OS you're on but if Windows, you're going to need a SSH client. I reccomend MobaXterm. It's free.

Switch to Ethernet & ssh [email protected]. You should see something like this:

[email protected]'s password:

That will at least show the router is responding to ssh server requests.

If you do perhaps @bruce can advise what would be the next step to log in when the root password hasn't even been set yet. Is there a default one?

apoorfellowsoldier · July 22, 2025, 4:27pm

I downgraded and went back to firmware 4.11.13

Yes, I can connect to the router via SSH and it works. Im currently using Flint 3 and everything is working but I cannot access the web gui. When I factory reset router, it works for a few minutes then it gives me a timeout.

9b9e69c2-4b75-4420 · July 22, 2025, 4:30pm

Can you log in via ssh? IDK if a password needs to be set beforehand. That's normally done when using the GUI at first run.

If you can ssh in we can check to see the proper web-gui processes are running.

apoorfellowsoldier · July 22, 2025, 4:47pm

Yes, I can use ssh. What commannd do you want me to run?

9b9e69c2-4b75-4420 · July 22, 2025, 4:53pm

Let's see what's running. Post the output of netstat -natp. You should have something similar to:

Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name    
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:53            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      6377/dnsmasq
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      2606/dropbear
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:443             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      4373/nginx.conf -g 
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      4373/nginx.conf -g 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:8080          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3905/uhttpd
tcp        0   1644 192.168.8.1:22          192.168.8.187:56932     ESTABLISHED 22612/dropbear
tcp        0      0 ::1:53                  :::*                    LISTEN      6377/dnsmasq
tcp        0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN      2606/dropbear
tcp        0      0 :::443                  :::*                    LISTEN      4373/nginx.conf -g 
tcp        0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN      4373/nginx.conf -g

dropbear is the ssh server you're using. nginx.conf -g would tell us the nginx web server for the GL.iNet web ui is at least running. uhttpd would indicate a seperate web gui for the underlying OpenWrt, LuCI, is running.

apoorfellowsoldier · July 22, 2025, 5:05pm

root@GL-BE9300:~# netstat -natp
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      14634/nginx.conf -g
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8080            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      9814/uhttpd
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:53         0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      8978/dnsmasq
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:53            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      8978/dnsmasq
tcp        0      0 192.168.8.1:53          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      8978/dnsmasq
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      6236/dropbear
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:443             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      14634/nginx.conf -g
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8443            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      9814/uhttpd
tcp        0    592 192.168.8.1:22          192.168.8.151:51665     ESTABLISHED 5158/dropbear
tcp        0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN      14634/nginx.conf -g
tcp        0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN      6236/dropbear
tcp        0      0 :::443                  :::*                    LISTEN      14634/nginx.conf -g
root@GL-BE9300:~#

9b9e69c2-4b75-4420 · July 22, 2025, 5:15pm

Okay, the processes look as expected. Let's see if anything is being served by nginx. You'll need to opkg update && opkg install curl first. Then run curl -k https://127.0.0.1:443. You should have output similar to:

curl -k https://127.0.0.1:443
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang=""><head><meta charset="utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache,no-store,must-revalidate"><meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache"><meta http-equiv="expires" cont
ent="0"><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1,minimum-scale=1,user-scalable=no"><link rel="icon" href="/favicon.i
co"><title>Admin Panel</title><link href="/js/app.6d7e8027.js" rel="preload" as="script"></head><body><noscript><strong>We're sorry but gl-ui doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it t
o continue.</strong></noscript><div id="app"></div><script src="/js/app.6d7e8027.js"></script></body></html>

Then test curl -k https://192.168.8.1:443. The results should be the same. Both are for the GL.iNet Web GUI server.

Also try to load up https://192.168.8.1/cgi-bin/luci via your preferred web browser, in private mode. That should get you to LuCI.

I'm wondering if the GL.iNet's reliance on so much JavaScript isn't causing an issue/crashing your web browser from properly rendering pages. Stranger things have happened.

apoorfellowsoldier · July 22, 2025, 5:25pm

root@GL-BE9300:~# curl -k https://127.0.0.1:443
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang=""><head><meta charset="utf-8"><meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"><meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache,no-store,must-revalidate"><meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache"><meta http-equiv="expires" content="0"><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1,minimum-scale=1,user-scalable=no"><title>Admin Panel</title><link href="/js/app.9411912b.js" rel="preload" as="script"></head><body><noscript><strong>We're sorry but gl-ui doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue.</strong></noscript><div id="app"></div><script src="/js/app.9411912b.js"></script></body></html>root@GL-BE9300:~#

````root@GL-BE9300:~# curl -k https://192.168.8.1:443
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang=""><head><meta charset="utf-8"><meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"><meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache,no-store,must-revalidate"><meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache"><meta http-equiv="expires" content="0"><meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1,minimum-scale=1,user-scalable=no"><title>Admin Panel</title><link href="/js/app.9411912b.js" rel="preload" as="script"></head><body><noscript><strong>We're sorry but gl-ui doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue.</strong></noscript><div id="app"></div><script src="/js/app.9411912b.js"></script></body></html>root@GL-BE9300:~#
`

apoorfellowsoldier · July 22, 2025, 5:31pm

I tried to load up https://192.168.8.1/cgi-bin/luci via private mode with no success.

9b9e69c2-4b75-4420 · July 22, 2025, 5:44pm

Very strange. LuCI is more light weight than the GL GUI. I'd expect it to load.

Do you get anything with curl -k https://127.0.0.1:8443/cgi-bin/luci &/or curl -k https://192.168.8.1:8443/cgi-bin/luci? The result should be the same.