AX211 Client + AP on one radio

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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My aim is to configure a wireless repeater with only one NIC. Before this, I was using a NIC with two radios, one as a client and the other as an AP, but I am now using a NIC with only one radio. I'm a newbie to this, so any suggestions are welcome.

  • Openwrt Version: 23.05.5, r24106-10cc5fcd00
  • /etc/config/wireless
config wifi-device 'radio0'
        option type 'mac80211'
        option path 'pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:01:00.0'
        option channel '36'
        option band '5g'
        option htmode 'HE80'
        option disabled '1'

config wifi-iface 'default_radio0'
        option device 'radio0'
        option network 'lan'
        option mode 'ap'
        option ssid 'OpenWrt'
        option encryption 'none'
  • dmesg | grep -e iwlwifi
[    3.747631] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: api flags index 2 larger than supported by driver
[    3.748197] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 0.0.2.36
[    3.750331] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: loaded firmware version 72.a764baac.0 so-a0-gf-a0-72.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
[    3.754918] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6E AX211 160MHz, REV=0x430
[    3.927132] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: loaded PNVM version 16611aa6
[    3.944659] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected RF GF, rfid=0x2010d000
[    4.013684] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: base HW address:
  • lspci -nnk
01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-S PCH CNVi WiFi [8086:7a70] (rev 11)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0094]
        Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
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Intel is a no go for AP.

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Thanks for the reply, you are right. But this is not production, just to get the NIC on my laptop to work as a hotspot...

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Does it matter, if it isn't working?

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Basically not, however,

  1. My use case requires low AP performance, so I'd like to try the built-in NIC if possible.
  2. Since the driver is also iwlwifi, ubuntu might work but openwrt I'm not sure what I screwed up. It's better to learn something from it.

Thanks for any advice you may have.

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