GL-AXT1800 LED Configuration BUG(?)

Technical Support for Routers
1

Excuse me Please:
I am experiencing a non-critical oddity using the 1800 & its LED configuration.
Namely, having navigated to the Luci interface, adjusted the LED to a specific configuration, that upon cold boot, while the configuration seems to be retained, the LED does NOT flash with activity until the config is DELETED and reinstated.

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using the following Configuration:

LED: white_led
Trigger: Network device activity(kernel:netdev)
Device: eth0
Trigger Md: [EMPTY] LinkOn [#]Transmit [#]Receive

FAILS to continue with cold boot.

Requires DELETION and reinstating to enable LED flash with activity.
Edit+Save+Apply have NO effect.

Is there anything additional I can set/use to make permanent the LED config?
Thank you for your time in reading & replying.
HCA

2

well, seeing such activity on this post,
i decided to ask ChatGPT,
which, interestingly-enough, DID at least give me some steps to try:

Namely:
under Luci / System / Startup
adding the following to the /etc/rc.local

# Delay LED initialization to allow eth0 to fully initialize
sleep 10
/etc/init.d/led restart

this, however had ZERO effect, now with a warm boot.
led still not flashing.

HOWEVER, selecting Luci / System / Startup / Initscripts
and MANUALLY [restarting]

96 led

did allow the LED to flash with network activity as expected.
still seems like a BUG to me, as one ought not have to 'hand-hold' hardware in its user-set configuration.

3

Hello, please try this command to work around this issue:

mv /etc/rc.d/S96led /etc/rc.d/S98led

4

Thank you @bruce :slightly_smiling_face:
to verify, is one to place recommended command into the "[Local Startup]" area?
which i take it would be run every time the router is powered-up?
also, am i to keep, adjust, or remove the above "sleep" delay previously mentioned?

5

applied and warm-booted the following under [Local Startup]:

# Put your custom commands here that should be executed once
# the system init finished. By default this file does nothing.

. /lib/functions/gl_util.sh
remount_ubifs

# Delay LED initialization to allow eth0 to fully initialize
# edited to 30sec. for experiment.
# sleep 30
# /etc/init.d/led restart

mv /etc/rc.d/S96led /etc/rc.d/S98led

exit 0

the LED on the device does NOT flash with
network activity UNTIL:

96 led [Restart]

is engaged.

any ideas to resolve the LED flash with eth0 network activity issue?

6

ok, here is a WEIRD additional detail.
upon cold-boot, i notice before any Internet activity PC-wise is accomplished,
that the router is NOW flashing its led with Internet activity.
so, in looking into the Luci environment,
(with no change to the above [Local Startup])

i find that

96 led is DISABLED.

/e confused.

might someone explain what has occurred here please?

7

It doesn't need to be added in the rc.local, it only needs to be executed once, unless reset the firmware.

After executing the command, the 96 LED will not be disabled. Probably you have disabled it manually?

Follow the names of the background files, and don't look at the order of Luci start-ups.
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8

for want to guidance, I simply input the commands in the only place I could.
under [Local Startup]

please see the following screen capture:

96 LED Disabled
96 LED Disabled1920×1080 157 KB

96 led is yet,
96 led.
I, made no further changes then what was detailed above.
I, disabled NOTHING.
I, found 96 led disabled of its own accord; hence my above confusion.

I, did find, however, in scrolling further down, 98 Samba, which is now disabled. :dizzy_face:

9

That commands only need to execute one time on the SSH.

Now your router LED works?

If you enable the NAS (network sharing), the SAMBA would be enabled.