Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 20:20 Post subject: Archer C7 no lights except power
I have a Archer c7 v2 at home and a couple of v2 units at work. My unit at home has worked perfectly for years. One of the work units went bad, or so I though, as none of the lights worked. I took a new V2, updated the stock firmware and then flashed to ddwrt. The flash completed successfuly, but the only light that works is the power LED. Wifi does light up once connected, but none of the lan LEDs light up once connected.
I have reverted numerous times and performed countless 303030s in between different ddwrt builds, but I am at a loss. All LEDs work fine on stock firmware and the unit seems to function fine on ddwrt other than the lights.
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 2:47 Post subject: DD-WRT
What version of DD-WRT?
I am currently running 37139 and do not have any issues with lights on my Archer C7 v2. See the link in my signature if you need to upgrade dd-wrt. _________________ Before asking a question on the forums, update dd-wrt: Where do I download firmware? I suggest reading it all.
QCA Best WiFi Settings
Some dd-wrt wiki pages are up to date, others are not. PM me if you find an old one.
Atheros:
Netgear R7800 x3 - WDS AP / station, gateway, QoS
TP-Link Archer C7 v2 x2 - WDS Station
TP-Link TL-WDR3600 v1 - WDS Station
TP-Link 841nd v8 - NU
D-Link 615 C1/E3/I1 x 7 - 1 WDS station
D-Link 825 B1 - NU
D-Link 862L A1 x2 - WDS Station
Netgear WNDR3700v2 - NU
UBNT loco M2 x2 - airOS
Broadcom
Linksys EA6400 - Gateway, QoS
Asus N66U - AP
Netgear WNDR3700v3 - not used
MediaTek
UBNT EdgeRouter X - switch
37139 is what I am using at home and have had no problems.
On the trouble router I tried 36698, 36527, 36410, 36330, and 36247. I tried a few more but would have to look on the laptop that I wad using to flash with to tell you. All did the same thing - flashed successfully but no lights.
On the C7V2 the LAN LED's are lit only when there is a gigabit connection to those ports. Otherwise the LED's are off.
On the C7V4 the LED's are on when there is a connection of any type but do not show the traffic (always on while something is connected).
This is the DD-WRT behavior on these for a long time.
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 20:21 Post subject: Reply
Well ain't that some shit? The laptop has a realtek pcie fe. The fe stands for "fast ethernet" which just marketing bs for not-gigabit. I tested here at work with a desktop that has a gigabit nic and the lan led does light up. I assume this is the answer, but I will test further later this week.
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:12 Post subject: Re: Reply
enmadaimo wrote:
The fe stands for "fast ethernet" which just marketing bs for not-gigabit.
That's not marketing bullshit, it is a well established standard since roughly two decades ago and was the fastest ethernet for a decade until we got GE.
Your laptop is either old or cheap if its ethernet is FE.. _________________ Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
