Netgear WAX202 WiFi 6 $30 at Amazon

This seems like an interesting deal for $29.99:

NETGEAR 4-Stream WiFi 6 Dual-Band Gigabit Router (WAX202) – AX1800 Wireless Speed (Up to 1.8 Gbps)

I don't see official OpenWrt support, but a quick web search suggests that maybe this commit just needs to be ported to official OpenWrt:

ramips: add support for Netgear WAX202

That commit claims that the device has 512MB of RAM and 128MB of Flash.

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Looks like a pull request is already in progress.

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I've took some pictures from the inside:

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Not the best, but maybe someone finds them helpfull at some point in time.

I've succefully flashed the WAX202 with a openwrt factory image from the PR through the vendor web-ui. :slight_smile:

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can you link the files which you used?

My image wasn't plain OpenWRT (it was a Firmware build with Gluon to get a Freifunk Darmstadt Firmware). So it most certainly wouldn't be of much use for you.

But since the PR got merged a snapshot image should be available under https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ramips/mt7621/ tomorrow. :slight_smile:

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I see the files have been added on the above link. Could someone provide a guide on how to install the bin ?

Tried the links in the post above yours?

From the commit message, you should be able to flash the factory image (https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ramips/mt7621/openwrt-ramips-mt7621-netgear_wax202-squashfs-factory.img) with the Netgear webui.

From then on, any subsequent upgrades will use the sysupgrade image (https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ramips/mt7621/openwrt-ramips-mt7621-netgear_wax202-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin).

As these are snapshot builds, they won’t come with the luci webgui by default, so you’ll probably want to be able to ssh into the router (ssh root@192.168.1.1) and install it (opkg install luci) yourself afterwards. Otherwise, you can wait until this is rolled into the next stable release, which will probably be a few months.

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Flash snapshot and install luci from Ssh. Who can wait months just for stable release? :blush:

Hello again, you have been very helpful with your responses since I am new to Openwrt. I successfully flashed it and then installed luci from ssh. However, I am having an issue with the 5ghz radio as its not working and has the following status: 'Wireless is not associated'. Any ideas ?

Try enabling it

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It is enabled despite the disabled status. After a bit of troubleshooting the problem is with the 160mhz on AX mode as it doesn't seem to work for some reason. I tested it on both AC and AX mode at 80mhz and the 5ghz radio works fine. Therefore, the issue remains on AX/160mhz.

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can you post the output of the following
Remember to redact passwords, MAC addresses, and any public IP addresses you may have

cat /etc/config/wireless

AX/160mhz (not working):

config wifi-device 'radio0'
        option type 'mac80211'
        option path '1e140000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:02:00.0'
        option band '2g'
        option htmode 'HE20'
        option channel '6'
        option cell_density '0'
        option country 'US'

config wifi-iface 'default_radio0'
        option device 'radio0'
        option network 'lan'
        option mode 'ap'
        option ssid '*****'
        option encryption 'psk2'
        option key '*****'

config wifi-device 'radio1'
        option type 'mac80211'
        option path '1e140000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:02:00.0+1'
        option band '5g'
        option cell_density '0'
        option country 'US'
        option txpower '20'
        option channel '36'
        option htmode 'HE160'

config wifi-iface 'wifinet1'
        option device 'radio1'
        option mode 'ap'
        option ssid '*****'
        option encryption 'psk2'
        option key '*****'
        option network 'lan'

AX/80mhz (working):

config wifi-device 'radio0'
        option type 'mac80211'
        option path '1e140000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:02:00.0'
        option band '2g'
        option htmode 'HE20'
        option channel '6'
        option cell_density '0'
        option country 'US'

config wifi-iface 'default_radio0'
        option device 'radio0'
        option network 'lan'
        option mode 'ap'
        option ssid '****'
        option encryption 'psk2'
        option key '****'

config wifi-device 'radio1'
        option type 'mac80211'
        option path '1e140000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:02:00.0+1'
        option band '5g'
        option cell_density '0'
        option country 'US'
        option htmode 'HE80'
        option txpower '20'
        option channel '36'

config wifi-iface 'wifinet1'
        option device 'radio1'
        option mode 'ap'
        option ssid '****'
        option encryption 'psk2'
        option key '****'
        option network 'lan'

mt7915 in dbdc mode do not support 160Mhz . There is pull to remove this
mt7915e: clear 160Mhz support if DBDC by ptpt52 · Pull Request #618 · openwrt/mt76 · GitHub

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I see, thanks for the info.

@Ansuel Would you mind backporting efca76f and 0f068e7 to 22.03?

Ok will do this ASAP

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No rush but every extra AX device in 22.03 is a worthwile addition.

Grazie :pray:

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@Borromini Do you have info about the uboot_env config for this device? Currently it's broken as it doesn't have any info in it...
(And I just backported it and now we need a new patch....) (one more thing to check for new device... check that we actually have uboot env when the get_ascii is used)

(fw_env.confg)