Asus rt66u b1, wifi

Asus rt66u b1,

I installed openwrt and enabled wifi there is wifi 4 , but from pc i dont see wireless ssid.He can scan and see others but my pc and mobile dont see router.
Its on g standard how to change to n.
And wifi 5 is not enabled at all
How to make it work ok?

is there ?

who's "he" ?

no wifi is on by default in openwrt.

the rt66u is Broadcom based, wifi will never be good on this device, using openwrt.

which is something the rt66u wiki page is pointing out.

Then i go to stock

He is bricked now

I think that asus router have active bootloader, can i with that flash image to unbrick like i maked with asus rt 10.I cant now remember how to do that.

You didn't read the whole wiki page, did you ?

You can use Rescue mode: https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Asus_RT-AC66U_B1

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thank you
i will try that , i still not clear how to enter rescue mode that i thinking all time

am not clear how to go in rescue mode it goes like power off all at router, than hold long reset button (how long 2 3 5 minutes) than plug in power cord than stil keep pressing long(how long) and my all leds keep blinking like is bricked and router is

yes i did , i was do all as says (exectly now with same ip 192.168.1.10 but with 192.168.1.66 i will try that now) and before i do upload firmware i have to enable rescue mode.
Device discovery app dont see router

I will work on that now

if you used the Asus restoration tool for installing OpenWRT, you should be able to follow the same instruction for installing stock fw, or Merlin, if available ?

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Merlin wrt is asus stock for rt66u b1 what i haved when i buy , maybe i wrong am not sure.I downloaded firmware from asus site

I holded reset button 3 minutes before i plug in power cable and 3 miutes after i plug in power cable no blinking slowly led power on router.All tim led light power on router is lite on all time on.

Rt66u wont go in safemode either pool request on tftpd32

with asus rt66u i got two problems i dont know to go in safe mode.
and tftp wont make request for firmver

i brick them becouse router was blinking led and i was think flashing goes good i shouldnt power off

i installed rescue.exe follow these steps https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1000814/ and no changes , was set ip 192.168.1.10 connect pc and router lan port 1
i follow these steps Unbrick ASUS RT-N66U - #15 by dkwalton
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/troubleshooting/vendor_specific_rescue
nothing for now

i will use stock, merlin wrt becouse openwrt dont work 5ghz radio
on youtube i can see how peoples do make to go in rescue mod. i follow same steps but when i reset another move is blink all leds never slow blinking powe led like shoud be

After i see metod with wps button i was go in rescue mode where i was with restoreation tool upload firmvere, works now.