About Netgear WNDR4300v1 5GHz missing problem
After flashing OpenWRT to Netgear WNDR4300v1, I surprisingly found that 5GHz wireless card was missing. And I tried to flash back to OEM version but ended up in dead loop rebooting. The 5GHz wifi of WNDR4300 is provided by AR9580 which is connected by the PCI interface. I used dmesg to inspect the log of openwrt and found that PCI found nothing when starting. Was the chip broken? I nearly gave up and tried to disconnect the router with its power and went to dinner. After the dinner, I powered up the router and -- it just worked! Here is the log from dmesg. [ 0.391671] PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00 [ 0.396044] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x10000000-0x13ffffff] [ 0.403409] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io 0x0000] [ 0.409340] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x0] [ 0.416575] pci_bus 0000:00: No busn resource found for root bus, will use [bus 00-ff]...