I have an Asus RT-AC85P and since I rebooted it yesterday, the wifi is not working anymore, as in: the wifi interface seems to fail to get initialized.
I haven't changed anything in the config or done any updates since almost a year, but I also tried restoring a backup from February this year, and strangely it produces the same error.
The Wireless Panel looks like this:
I had the other SSIDs enabled as well, they're just disabled from troubleshooting.
This is in the System Log:
(ignore the incorrect date, this is just from having restored the old backup)
Sat Feb 11 18:25:31 2023 daemon.notice hostapd: Configuration file: /var/run/hostapd-phy0.conf (phy wlan0) --> new PHY
Sat Feb 11 18:25:31 2023 daemon.err hostapd: Could not set interface wlan0 flags (UP): I/O error
Sat Feb 11 18:25:31 2023 daemon.err hostapd: nl80211: Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP
Sat Feb 11 18:25:31 2023 daemon.notice hostapd: nl80211: deinit ifname=wlan0 disabled_11b_rates=0
Sat Feb 11 18:25:31 2023 daemon.err hostapd: nl80211 driver initialization failed.
Sat Feb 11 18:25:31 2023 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING
Sat Feb 11 18:25:31 2023 daemon.err hostapd: hostapd_free_hapd_data: Interface wlan0 wasn't started
Sat Feb 11 18:25:31 2023 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan0-1: CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING
Sat Feb 11 18:25:31 2023 daemon.err hostapd: hostapd_free_hapd_data: Interface wlan0-1 wasn't started
Sat Feb 11 18:25:31 2023 daemon.notice netifd: radio0 (2212): Command failed: Invalid argument
Sat Feb 11 18:25:31 2023 daemon.notice netifd: radio0 (2212): Device setup failed: HOSTAPD_START_FAILED
And this is in dmesg:
[ 13.216614] mt7615e 0000:01:00.0: HW/SW Version: 0x8a108a10, Build Time: 20180518100604a
[ 13.216614]
[ 13.227177] mt7615e 0000:02:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 13.284529] ieee80211 phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[ 13.338802] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[ 13.352963] NET: Registered protocol family 24
[ 13.357982] random: crng init done
[ 13.368689] random: 7 urandom warning(s) missed due to ratelimiting
[ 13.378269] mt7615e 0000:02:00.0: HW/SW Version: 0x8a108a10, Build Time: 20180518100604a
[ 13.378269]
[ 13.410349] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[ 13.564305] SQUASHFS error: xz decompression failed, data probably corrupt
[ 13.578055] SQUASHFS error: squashfs_read_data failed to read block 0x98bbe
[ 13.642831] SQUASHFS error: xz decompression failed, data probably corrupt
[ 13.656594] SQUASHFS error: squashfs_read_data failed to read block 0x98bbe
[ 13.720998] SQUASHFS error: xz decompression failed, data probably corrupt
[ 13.734804] SQUASHFS error: squashfs_read_data failed to read block 0x98bbe
[ 13.749050] mt7615e 0000:01:00.0: loading /lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7615_n9.bin failed with error -5
[ 13.767197] mt7615e 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for mediatek/mt7615_n9.bin failed with error -5
[ 13.785787] mt7615e 0000:01:00.0: Falling back to sysfs fallback for: mediatek/mt7615_n9.bin
[ 15.467645] SQUASHFS error: xz decompression failed, data probably corrupt
[ 15.481453] SQUASHFS error: squashfs_read_data failed to read block 0x98bbe
[ 15.495900] mt7615e 0000:02:00.0: N9 Firmware Version: A v!, Build Time: !7'MFD(
[ 15.496177] mt7615e 0000:01:00.0: N9 Firmware Version: A v!, Build Time: !7'MFD(
[ 15.518142] mt7615e 0000:02:00.0: Failed to send firmware to device
[ 15.534903] mt7615e 0000:01:00.0: Failed to send firmware to device
Does anyone have any ideas what could be the problem or what I could try?
Many thanks for any help in advance.