In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

seems merlin has ignored what you reported about the merlin driver been broken, sadly he seems over concerned only about american users.

The wireless driver is closed source so he cannot do anything about the wireless drivers. For some strange reason, he has always been reluctant to make locale changing easier.

I'm sticking with 376.43 drivers modified by 'john' for the moment. I will only modify CFE under duress as I cannot risk bricking my router unless I have a known good one on standby. Teenagers without the internet at chez DrT? Shudder .

Cheers

Evening Bill

I have had similar experiences with the EE Brightbox 2 on 5 GHz, also seemingly restricted to those four Channels.

Like you, I have not detected other 5 GHZ Channels in use in the area, yet the BB indulges in channel-hopping and pairing - acknowledging I don't know what other transmission types or interference there may be on 5 GHz.

Our laptop with 5 GHz defaulted to that Band when first logged in to the BB's 2.4 GHZ signal, by some sort of internal pairing at the BB.

In practice, the 5 GHz Band was not as satisfactory, so I suppressed that choice on the laptop, with now much improved 2.4 GHz performance.

Never had any problem at all with 5GHz- rock steady and it's got enough range even if I use the MacBook in the garden, but that doesn't happen often.

The only LAN devices that connect at 2.4GHz are a couple of Airplay speakers and an old laptop, none of which are equipped to run at 5GHz anyway.

edit- And the Kindle, nearly forgot that!

Edited by billford (Thu 28-Aug-14 22:13:59)

In reply to a post by DrTeeth:

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

seems merlin has ignored what you reported about the merlin driver been broken, sadly he seems over concerned only about american users.

The wireless driver is closed source so he cannot do anything about the wireless drivers. For some strange reason, he has always been reluctant to make locale changing easier.

I'm sticking with 376.43 drivers modified by 'john' for the moment. I will only modify CFE under duress as I cannot risk bricking my router unless I have a known good one on standby. Teenagers without the internet at chez DrT? Shudder .

Cheers

I modified my CFE using the thread from merlin's forum site.

It really isn't hard:

1) dump your CFE to file and copy to usb stick (via SSH)
2) Open HXD on windows, load cfe bin file from usb and change two occurrences of EU to IS
3) put usb stick back into router and flash using command on the site.
4) Reboot router

I also factory reset at this point (I was due one anyway).

Be very careful if downloading a CFE from the site and editing MAC addresses etc. ... I can imagine that will be more difficult to get right.

If you can use busybox via SSH you'll be fine.

J

In reply to a post by Brammers:

I modified my CFE using the thread from merlin's forum site.

It really isn't hard:

1) dump your CFE to file and copy to usb stick (via SSH)
2) Open HXD on windows, load cfe bin file from usb and change two occurrences of EU to IS
3) put usb stick back into router and flash using command on the site.
4) Reboot router

I also factory reset at this point (I was due one anyway).

Be very careful if downloading a CFE from the site and editing MAC addresses etc. ... I can imagine that will be more difficult to get right.

If you can use busybox via SSH you'll be fine.

J

Thanks for that. I may give it a go. Can you confirm that you did it for the N66U as one of the utilities that one has to use come from another model's download.

TIA

DrT

It was the RT-N66U (my CFE happens to be 1.0.1.3).

The only extra tool I needed was HXD for windows to do the hex editing.

All other tools are already built into the N66U (as it runs a MIPS chip).

Dump command:
dd if=/dev/mtd0 of=/tmp/original_cfe1.bin

Flash command:
mtd-write -i new_cfe.bin -d pmon

(obviously change the paths/filenames to suit).

I'd upgrade my CFE to 1.01.4 or 1.0.1.9, but without some clearly stated benefits - why risk the brick?

J

Mni tnx.

DrT