Openwrt USB Wifi not allowing both 2.4 and 5GHz at the same time

[stealthrt]

Hey all I am at a loss on how to go about getting both an 5GHz and a 2.4GHz setup in openwrt 23.05.5.

I am using a FriendlyElec NanoPi R5S with a USB 3 Panda Wireless PAU0F AXE3000 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 6E adapter.

Issue is that when I add another a new network for the 2.4GHz and save that it also then turns the AX 5GHz also to 2.4GHz for some reason?

root@carSSD:~# iwinfo radio0 info
radio0    ESSID: unknown
      Access Point: 9C:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
      Mode: Master  Channel: 36 (5.180 GHz)  HT Mode: HE80
      Center Channel 1: 42 2: unknown
      Tx-Power: 3 dBm  Link Quality: unknown/70
      Signal: unknown  Noise: unknown
      Bit Rate: unknown
      Encryption: unknown
      Type: nl80211  HW Mode(s): 802.11ac/ax/b/g/n
      Hardware: USB 0E8D:7961 [MediaTek MT7921AU]
      TX power offset: none
      Frequency offset: none
      Supports VAPs: no  PHY name: phy0

root@carSSD:~# cat /etc/config/wireless

config wifi-device 'radio0'
        option type 'mac80211'
        option path 'platform/usbhost/fd000000.usb/xhci-hcd.0.auto/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0'
        option channel '157'
        option band '5g'
        option htmode 'HE80'
        option country 'US'
        option cell_density '0'

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

root@carSSD:~# uci show wireless

wireless.radio0=wifi-device
wireless.radio0.type='mac80211'
wireless.radio0.path='platform/usbhost/fd000000.usb/xhci-hcd.0.auto/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0'
wireless.radio0.channel='auto'
wireless.radio0.band='5g'
wireless.radio0.htmode='HE80'
wireless.radio0.country='US'
wireless.radio0.cell_density='0'
wireless.default_radio0=wifi-iface
wireless.default_radio0.device='radio0'
wireless.default_radio0.network='lan'
wireless.default_radio0.mode='ap'
wireless.default_radio0.ssid='telluridewifi'
wireless.default_radio0.encryption='psk2'
wireless.default_radio0.key='xxxxxxxxxx'
wireless.wifinet1=wifi-iface
wireless.wifinet1.device='radio0'
wireless.wifinet1.mode='ap'
wireless.wifinet1.ssid='OpenWrt'
wireless.wifinet1.encryption='none'
wireless.wifinet1.disabled='1'

How can I get both 2.4GHz and 5GHz configured?

[evs]

@stealthrt

How can I get both 2.4GHz and 5GHz configured?

I'll need to do more research but this looks like a client / STA centric device. So combined 2.4ghz and 5ghz operation isn't going to be a thing.

Even with an AP centric chipset. You need multiple radios to do multiple bands.

edit:

Yeah it's an MT7921AUN?

[stealthrt]

Its a MT7921U

[evs]

Yeah so if you want multiple bands, this is a single radio, that can do one (of multiple) bands at a time.

So you would need to get multiple USB adapters.

I'd recommend getting a separate AP as that would be more cost effective and better featured as it would use AP chipset family.

[stealthrt]

Sadness. I was hoping this could do both. Thanks EVS.