Please help: Duet Wifi stuck on Wifi Idle, No Networks, etc
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@ddxdesign can you try this WiFi firmware here?
https://github.com/Duet3D/RepRapFirmware/releases/download/2.05.1/DuetWiFiServer-1.23.bin
I believe it should work ok.
You will need to place it in the sys folder of the SD card.
Take a backup of the one already there (in fact, backup all the SD card contents just in case).
Then put the SD card back in, power up the board and using YAT, send M997 S1.
Once flashed send M552 S0
Then M558 S"*"
Then M587... With your WiFi details.
Hopefully that sends ok, then use M552 S1 to activate the WiFi -
@jay_s_uk Yeah I know SeeMe has instructions for updating the RR FW itself but I couldn't see mention of the Wifi FW. Either way I will have to go out and buy an SD card reader with a USB plug. My new laptop is supposed to be fancy (for gaming) but has no SD port...
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@ddxdesign thats a shame.
well when you are ready or need any more help just drop a message here.
If they give you instructions for upgrading the firmware to 2.05.1 then go through with that too. -
@jay_s_uk the instructions I found as of August of this year are to take the RRFW up to 3.2.2 but I just went through them again and nothing about the wifi FW. So hopefully the two won't clash and I can do it all.
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@ddxdesign ah, if going to 3.2.2 then you will need 1.25 of the wifi firmware which can be found here https://github.com/Duet3D/DuetWiFiSocketServer/releases/download/1.25/DuetWiFiServer.bin
I'm assuming they provide new config files etc? as a fair amount of syntax changed between RRF2 and RRF3 -
@jay_s_uk Yeah looks like there are entire new cards' worth of files and directories to step it from 2.02 through two intermediate stages and then to 3.2.2
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@ddxdesign thats great. (don't make the move to 3.3.0 just yet as there were changes to the spindle code).
But I would feel comfortable with you going from 2.02 to 3.2.2. -
@jay_s_uk OK, I will get a card reader this afternoon - so, are there instructions for the 1.25 wifi FW? And should I do that after I take the RRFW up to 322?
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@ddxdesign the order doesn't matter.
And just pop it in sys replacing duetwifiserver.bin that's already there and run M997 S1 -
@jay_s_uk Doh, I just realized it would likely be the same instructions as you sent for 1.23 - heh.
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@jay_s_uk Well, I just spent an hour sweating in my printer room going through EVERYTHING - it's all up at 3.2.2 now, wifi is up at 1.25....
And no dice. Exact same thing again. It just fails to get on the network: every M552 S1 yields an endless stream of "no known networks found, wifi module is idle." I even tried the thing I had to do once where I had to escape all the lowercase letters in the password with a single ' before each.
EDIT I GOT IT. I saw something in the docs about the Duet only working on 2.4ghz. Now, it's been working for 5 months since I moved here on my router where both bands were on the same SSID. I forcibly split the bands to have their own names, logged specifically into the 2.4ghz one, et voila.
UGH that was a heck of a dance.
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@ddxdesign Great to hear you got there in the end!
