#16543: luci wifi configuration broken with 2 or more radios
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Reporter: anonymous | Owner: developers
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: response-needed | Milestone: Chaos Calmer 15.05
Component: base system | Version: Trunk
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by anonymous):
I recently used the Luci interface to enable the second radio on my TP-
Link TL-WDR4300 v1.
I checked that it was on a different station than radio0, then hit the
"enable" button under Network -> Wifi. DON'T DO IT PEOPLE, DON'T DO IT.
At least if you have a similar type of router, don't enable the second
radio through the Luci interface, use cli.
My wifi was immediately broken, I did a complete reboot, modem, router,
computer, checked again, no connectivity repeated the complete reboot,
still no internet connection whatsoever either on wifi or lan. I usually
would be able to ssh into the router, but was not able to access it in any
way. Fortunately for me, my entire root system with lots of changes and
configurations I had made previously (all of which were working well) was
extracted unto a usb stick. I was able to simply take that out, and the
router was back to the condition as when it was first flased with OpenWrt.
I then mounted my usb in a separate folder and went in to find
/etc/config/wifi.
Strangely, the iface configuration for radio1 had the line "disabled '1' "
even though I had just enabled it through Luci. Yes, yes, I TRIPLE
checked that I was looking at the mounted system on the usb, not the
original software with its defaults. I then rebooted with the usb in (the
fstab file is configured to automatically load the new configurations),
and still had no internet access using my mounted system. I was not happy
that apparently I had lost the usuability of all my configurations and
changes, which I had been using for several months with no connectivity
problems. I rebooted one more time (with default settings) looked back in
the /etc/config/wifi on the usb again and very strangely, THIS time the
"disabled '1' " line was not present in the file. Didn't want to take any
chances, so I wrote the line back in, and decided not to use my second
radio for now, unless I can get some info from somebody about how to
properly enable it through command line.
It doesn't seem to make sense, but after a reboot, all my configurations
are fine, wifi and lan connections are back just fine, even though the
/etc/config/wifi file now has all the exact same configs as when I was
unable to get connection.
I suspect that the Luci interface makes other changes to other files?
Maybe somebody knows more about this?
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/16543#comment:17>
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