TL-WA1201 v2 - 24.10.0 Radio 0 issues

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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After upgrading from 23.05.5 to 24.10 radio 0 is no longer working

Wed Feb 5 19:26:32 2025 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'loopback' is now up
Wed Feb 5 19:26:32 2025 daemon.notice netifd: Network device 'lo' link is up
Wed Feb 5 19:26:32 2025 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'loopback' has link connectivity
Wed Feb 5 19:26:33 2025 daemon.notice netifd: radio0 (2419): WARNING: Variable 'data' does not exist or is not an array/object
Wed Feb 5 19:26:33 2025 daemon.notice netifd: radio1 (2420): WARNING: Variable 'data' does not exist or is not an array/object
Wed Feb 5 19:26:33 2025 daemon.notice netifd: radio0 (2419): Phy not found
Wed Feb 5 19:26:33 2025 daemon.notice netifd: radio0 (2419): Could not find PHY for device 'radio0'
Wed Feb 5 19:26:33 2025 daemon.notice netifd: Wireless device 'radio0' set retry=0
Wed Feb 5 19:26:33 2025 daemon.crit netifd: Wireless device 'radio0' setup failed, retry=0
Wed Feb 5 19:26:34 2025 kern.info kernel: [ 74.113529] eth0: link up (1000Mbps/Full duplex)
Wed Feb 5 19:26:34 2025 kern.info kernel: [ 74.118394] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered blocking state
Wed Feb 5 19:26:34 2025 kern.info kernel: [ 74.123853] br-lan: port 1(eth0) entered forwarding state
Wed Feb 5 19:26:34 2025 daemon.notice netifd: Network device 'eth0' link is up
Wed Feb 5 19:26:34 2025 daemon.notice netifd: bridge 'br-lan' link is up
Wed Feb 5 19:26:34 2025 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'lan' has link connectivity
Wed Feb 5 19:26:34 2025 daemon.info procd: - init complete -
Wed Feb 5 19:26:34 2025 user.notice firewall: Reloading firewall due to ifup of lan (br-lan)
Wed Feb 5 19:26:35 2025 daemon.notice netifd: radio0 (2514): WARNING: Variable 'data' does not exist or is not an array/object
Wed Feb 5 19:26:35 2025 daemon.notice netifd: radio0 (2514): Bug: PHY is undefined for device 'radio0'
Wed Feb 5 19:26:35 2025 daemon.notice netifd: Wireless device 'radio0' is now down

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which version of 24.10.0 are you using as 24.10.0 is not out yet, are you on rc7?

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The one from here:-
https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=24.10.0&target=ath79%2Fgeneric&id=tplink_tl-wa1201-v2

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This issue effects several ATH79 based devices. I believe it is being worked in "ath10k: 5 GHz radio not detected. #14541". The link to this issue is: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/14541
From my understanding it is lack of the correct board data for the TL-WA1201-V2 as well as other TP-Link devices and other ATH79 based devices. If I understood how to extract this information from my WAP and compile a snapshot version with that information in the correct board data file. I would already have my 5Ghz radio functioning on 24.10.x. Until then I'll keep reverting back to 23.05.5.