You can safely keep settings between snapshot and 22.03.x images, there have been no changes relevant to configuration (other platforms were converted from swconfig to DSA, and that makes configuration incompatible. there is a warning in case, grep for COMPAT_VERSION).
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2.4GHz wifi should have been stabilized significantly by
which contained
(thanks to @mrkiko who didn't get tired to bug MediaTek about the problems, esp. with Apple devices)
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that's interesting. I was probably using an older version.
In any case, I'll take ax on 2.4ghz any day.
One other thing I've noticed with the RT3200 is that 160MHz channel width doesn't result in faster speeds vs. 80. The MT7915DBDC doesn't support 160MHz.
I thought it did but only in 2x2 antenna config and not 4x4?
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I've now been on 22.03 RC5 for ~ 3 days.
I am still seeing some download fail / network errors
Is there anything I can check log wise or rule out (maybe fw4 issue)?
Wired clients also have the same issue, so not a radio configuration problem.
A while back, I was having issues with my E8450 with both wired and wireless connections. Web pages would randomly stop loading, and I'd have to reload a few times to get the page to fully load. My Nintendo Switch would fail the download phase of an Internet test. I ran a git bisect and ended up with this commit as the failure:
I was about to revert the commit, but instead tried setting
net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_tcp_no_window_check=1
in /etc/sysctl.conf, and that seems to have fixed my problems.
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very interesting. I have this issue as well on a D-Link dir-1960 (mt7621 device). Will try the fix.
By any chance do you have any 100Mbps wired device connected to one of the routers port? I have a Redmi AX6S (same mt7622 chipset with similar configs) and I experienced packet loss just because I had a Samsung TV (100Mbps) connected to the router. Every time a streaming service was used on the TV I observed 1%~2% packet loss on the network (more details here).
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Hi guys,
I'm a newbie, so at the beginning of my learning path... 
I just got the RT3200 today and I managed to brick(?) the device. Basically everything is working but the device is booting into recovery mode after every reboot. Of course, all settings are lost after the reboot. I think, that is normal if it boots to ramdisk.
As I see, the /dev/root and the overlay are missing.
_______ ________ __
| |.-----.-----.-----.| | | |.----.| |_
| - || _ | -__| || | | || _|| _|
|_______|| __|_____|__|__||________||__| |____|
|__| W I R E L E S S F R E E D O M
-----------------------------------------------------
OpenWrt SNAPSHOT, r20167-a8e1e30543
-----------------------------------------------------
=== WARNING! =====================================
There is no root password defined on this device!
Use the "passwd" command to set up a new password
in order to prevent unauthorized SSH logins.
--------------------------------------------------
root@OpenWrt:~# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 250644 13516 237128 5% /
tmpfs 250644 72 250572 0% /tmp
tmpfs 512 0 512 0% /dev
root@OpenWrt:~#
I can access the router via SSH, SCP.
Can I manually restore UBI layout somehow?
Could you advise?
Thanks!
Edit: In addition the SSH key changes after every reboot.
Thank you. I tried this, but the boot process seemed to be the same after the echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger command.
Did you try the 2nd step?
rm /sys/fs/pstore/*
I tried that. Went through the whole process. Also, tried googling for missing root partition. My understanding is that I might need to flash an image, but I am not sure.
Can you list out the exact steps you followed (and the files you flashed in those steps)?
EDIT: Maybe disconnect power from the router, wait about 1 min and then connect back the power. That may clear the RAM and make it boot into the firmware on the disk.
Basically, I went through the OpenWrt conversion process, but skipped the backup. I am not planning to go back to the original firmware. Everything seems to be fine at that point, however I could not update the package list because of the old kernel, so I started figuring out how to update that.
I basically flashed the images from here: https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/mediatek/mt7622/
I am going to try to power cycle the router tomorrow and report back. Thanks for the idea @ka2107 .
Is your RT3200 is already converted to UBI layout?
How can I confirm that?
Edit: I did flash openwrt-22.03-snapshot-r19338-ae64d0624c-mediatek-mt7622-linksys_e8450-ubi-initramfs-recovery-installer.itb from dangowrt.
I think one way is to login into Luci, go to "System" -> "Backup / Flash Firmware". In the "Save mtblock contents" -> "Choose mtdblock" dropdown list, if you see "ubi" then it is in UBI layout.
Then you just need to flash
and then use "opkg" to install the packages you want.
If this doesn't work, try power cycle like I mentioned and then try flashing again.
EDIT: Changed MASTER SNAPSHOT image link to 22.03-SNAPSHOT image link.
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