ASUS RT-AC88U/broadcom WDS

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
1

Hi,
Does anyone know if this device supports WDS? I foolishly bought 2 of these broadcom devices and am trying to link them with WDS.

Im running the latest openwrt snapshot r24538-73410e2aa0 / LuCI Master git-23.292.78363-ee6a4da and although the wifi page on the client device shows a strong connection... I cannot even ping the AP router.

Does the driver just not support WDS (or mesh)?

TOH page only says the white WAN LED doesnt work.

If this doesnt work my only option is dumb AP mode or buy new routers, correct?

Hardware Infos

Revision: A2

root@OpenWrt:~# iw list | grep "Supported interface modes" -A 9
	Supported interface modes:
		 * IBSS
		 * managed
		 * AP
		 * P2P-client
		 * P2P-GO
		 * P2P-device
	Band 1:
		Capabilities: 0x1022
			HT20/HT40
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	Supported interface modes:
		 * IBSS
		 * managed
		 * AP
		 * P2P-client
		 * P2P-GO
		 * P2P-device
	Band 2:
		Capabilities: 0x1062
			HT20/HT40

wifi driver: brcmfmac

2

I managed to get relayd working following the guide on the wiki

The 5g radio onlg got 54Mbits, so I reset and setup 2.4g radio and its working much faster at ~280Mbits.

I was getting some strange kernel errors when installing packages and ended up with IP address for wifi client showing ip address instead of ? on wireless page, see screenshot.

This was because the package feeds were updated after I flashed the snapshot. The fix was to re-flash with latest snapshot and re-setup, then works as expected and all good.

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