Trouble with 5GHz AP mode on Netgear Nighthawk R7800

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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My wireless AP device always shows "disabled" in LuCI. Logs say

phy0-ap0: interface state UNINITIALIZED->COUNTRY_UPDATE
Could not determine operating frequency
phy0-ap0: interface state COUNTRY_UPDATE->DISABLED
phy0-ap0: AP-DISABLED

I see from some forum posts that region and country code must be set for my 5GHz AP on this device. I tried that with "iw reg set US" but didn't get any joy. This command appears to set the region for the wireless chipset but not the individual interfaces, if the output is correct. I also tried adding option country 'US' to the /etc/config/wireless file with no luck.

Also I see some posts about radar detection causing the interface to remain disabled. I tried to manually set the channel to 36 and 156 which had no impact. So I suspect the regulatory domain is the root cause.

Thanks for any fixes.

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set configuration from "luci" web interface ... (since you have "luci" at least try)

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from ssh (if the /etc/config/wireless file is valid):

uci set wireless.radio0.disabled='0'
uci set wireless.radio1.disabled='0'
uci commit
wifi up

edit your /etc/config/wireless and set:

option country 'US'

a example /etc/config/wireless is this:

at most post the /etc/config/wireless file for any problems (masking the sid and password)

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Italy worked for some reason! thanks

Also I updated to 23.0.5 on this device

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maybe it would be better if you put the correct country where the router is (you know the laws would impose this on you) ... :grinning:

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/wifi_countrycode

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If it won't work with my country code I'm not going to throw it in the garbage...

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try to put it in "US" and post the configuration file ...

cat /etc/config/wireless

masking the sid and password