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This may enable additional channels and power (in most cases don't) on ASUS Merlin provided routers.
The nvram settings have been tested on a ASUS RT-AX58U, they may work on other models as well (ASUS RT-AC78U).
Please use nvram dump
and adjust when needed, as they may differ on your device!
Credits to the commentators below, and members on the SNBForums posting instructions. Please post your findings, and help others when needed. :)
See https://www.htpcguides.com/enable-ssh-asus-routers-without-ssh-keys/ for instructions.
nvram dump > dump.txt
NOTE: You need to copy the dump.txt (or output by
nvram dump
to somewhere else), as they will be lost on reboot
Make sure
Enable JFFS custom scripts and configs
, is enabled in System settings. See https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng/wiki/User-scripts for details.
Make sure to also run the following commands:
nvram set jffs2_scripts="1"
nvram commit
Create the /jffs/scripts/wl
file, and paste the nvram
overwrites into this file (see given example file).
Create/adjust /jffs/scripts/init-start
:
#!/bin/sh
[ -x /jffs/scripts/wl ] && /jffs/scripts/wl &
# [ -x /jffs/addons/AdGuardHome.d/AdGuardHome.sh ] && /jffs/addons/AdGuardHome.d/AdGuardHome.sh init-start & # place before addons
Create/adjust /jffs/scripts/services-start
:
#!/bin/sh
/jffs/scripts/wl >/dev/null 2>&1 & # wl
# /jffs/scripts/scmerlin startup & # scMerlin
Create/adjust /jffs/scripts/service-event
:
#!/bin/sh
if echo "$2" | /bin/grep -q "wireless"; then { /jffs/scripts/wl service_event "$@" & }; fi # wl
Create/adjust /jffs/scripts/service-event-end
:
#!/bin/sh
if echo "$2" | /bin/grep -q "wireless"; then { /jffs/scripts/wl service_event "$@" & }; fi # wl
Make sure the scripts are executable:
chmod a+rx /jffs/scripts/*
You need to reboot the router to apply changes:
reboot
To make the changes persistent, make sure to add them to the jffs/scripts/wl
script.
Thank you for your comments. I'm not sure if I did it right or not, but it seems like the router doesn't support sl commands?
But the
wl country list
from your previous post works for some reason:And surprisingly, when set to E0, AU or JP, both my iPhone and AX210 can find the 6GHz band, but they all have very weak 6GHz transmission power (-48dBm @ 2 meters), only the US location code will give a reasonable transmission power (-36dB, @ 2 meters), so I'm very sad there.
And yes, I would definitely want to change to a Mediatek wireless card, but unfortunately my AX210 chip is embedded in my computer's motherboard, so it's impossible to upgrade unless I buy one of those PCI-E Wi-Fi adapters.
I saw that you mentioned about AX2xx wireless card will likely not work because of the LAR, have you tried the AX4xx family, like AX411? or the BE200? Did Intel remove LAR on those wireless cards? Because I think chances are, the next ASUS motherboard I get will come with an Intel wireless card, unfortunately.
I like Win11, so I have no problem there :)
Lastly, do you know what difference does the
country_rev
do? My router support 3 country_rev code for the US, but I see no difference changing those numbers:Thank you!