GL-MT3000 finds no wifi networks

Routers
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Hello here, sorry for the angry message but I’m on vacation with this router and my mobile devices and I cannot connect to the hotel wifi, and I’m really pissed at this router right now.

I bought it last week and it was working really great until we got here. I did all the configuration I needed, connected all my devices to it, configured my VPNs, connected it to my iPhone to have it a possible fallback for the family, I was thrilled.

But when I booted it up here at the hotel the first time it didn’t listed the SSIDs around right away, all scans ended with a blank page, so after trying some times to scan it finally listed one SSID and I tried to connect to it and it didn’t, and after that it gives me zero networks. Not even my iPhone’s personal hotspot that is right next to it.

But all my devices are able to list multiple SSIDs around, even the Chromecast is able to connect to the hotel wifi.

To try solve this I read many forum threads telling people to change the country on Luci, to switch channels, to downgrade from 4.6.2, to factory reset and start from scratch, and I did all that multiple times, uncountable times, I even upgraded to the current beta (v4.6.3) and nothing, I keep getting no wifis around me.

Looking at the logs (a bit cryptic for me) it looks like it found some networks but it’s not listing them maybe because of some errors that I also see in the logs.

How can something work flawlessly for one week or so and then not anymore? The only explanation for me is that something on it died, but that fast? Or I’m just really unlucky?

I bought one of these expensive internet plans at the hotel imagining I would be able to plug my Chromecast and some devices on it, and now I’m stuck with a plan that I can only use on a single device (yes they ate pirates here!).

Sorry for the rant, is there a possible fix for this? I’ll send the logs if I can attach them to this forum.

Thank you

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Do you see the networks when you scan via luci instead of the GL GUI?

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Try this firmware. Important: Start from scratch. Don't keep your settings.

https://dl.gl-inet.com/release/router/rc/mt3000-open/4.6.3-op24

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OMG, yes! Luci shows them all super fast, and multiple times the same SSID, their different APs? Good thing that the radio is still good, so the GL iNet frontend is not communicating properly with Luci? What buntspext told me to so is the fix for this?

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That firmware works like a charm @buntspext! I just marked it as resolved! Everything is connected and working here bypassing their captive portal.

Thanks to you both! :heart:

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This issue has known by R&D team, the newer GL firmware (perhaps 4.6.3 or 4.6.4) will be merged the update codes to release. Also, can use OP24 firmware. Thanks all.

Update: Please try to this GL version to see if it works ok now?
https://dl.gl-inet.com/router/mt3000/

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What is the issue exactly? If it is with OpenWrt itself, has the fix been upstreamed?

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@bruce I just tried that one twice (without erasing configuration first and then erasing). It was able to list the networks but couldn’t connect to the one from my hotel, I never got the portal page to login in, also wasn’t able to get IP address, gateway and DNS server addresses.

Then I moved back to op24, restored my configuration and it’s working fine

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It is not OpenWRT itself, but is own codes, related to the repeater process.

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Got it. If you are convenient and free, may require sharing the syslog with us during it try to login the portal page with the firmware 4.6.3.

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@bruce here’s it: pastebin - outil de debug collaboratif

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Not much more than a week with it and I already stumbled into another problem, we need a badge for this :grin:

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May need the syslog from the MT3000, GL GUI -> System -> Log, in the firmware v4.6.3, the process of the MT3000 repeats the primary WiFi.

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Damn I believe the pastebin expired…

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@bruce the best I could do as there aren’t many upload options here is a zipped pdf on my iOS
mt3000-log-pdf.zip (99.3 KB)

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Thanks for your corporations.

May I know if the router connected an USB device?

According to the syslog, I found the GL router have been connected the hotel Wi-Fi, and GL router broadcast discover the IP, but the hotel Wi-Fi did not return/offer. This issue is difficult to remote check, since we need to dis/re-connect the repeater, if the router only has repeater WAN, so we also lose the remote session.
But it works in the OP24, R&D will try to check.

Update:
If feel free and conversation to test, please try these commands in the SSH with the firmware 4.6.2, and repeat the hotel 5GHz Wi-Fi:

one by one input, post the results here please, and try to see if the repeater works?

cat /proc/kmsg &
iwpriv apclix0 show mibbucket
iwpriv apclix0 set edccaenable=0
iwpriv apclix0 set cp_support=2

If repeat 2.4GHz Wi-Fi, please:

cat /proc/kmsg &
iwpriv apcli0 show mibbucket
iwpriv apcli0 set edccaenable=0
iwpriv apcli0 set cp_support=2