Hello, today I was trying to make the TP-Link RE450 v2 to connect to my main router’s 5 GHz network to make a wireless repeater network.
I have successfully connected the TP-Link device to the main router’s network and have created a 2.4 GHz network with it, but I’m unable to create an AP on the 5 GHz band.
I have noticed that my system log is flooded with this message:
Fri Aug 21 16:20:54 2020 daemon.err hostapd: Failed to set beacon parameters
My wireless configuration (/etc/config/wireless) is as shown below (SSID and passwords changed):
config wifi-device 'radio0'
option type 'mac80211'
option hwmode '11a'
option path 'pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0'
option htmode 'VHT80'
option legacy_rates '0'
option country 'ES'
option channel '36'
config wifi-iface 'default_radio0'
option device 'radio0'
option network 'lan'
option mode 'ap'
option wpa_disable_eapol_key_retries '1'
option key 'Password123'
option ssid 'Network5G'
option encryption 'psk2+ccmp'
config wifi-device 'radio1'
option type 'mac80211'
option hwmode '11g'
option path 'platform/ahb/18100000.wmac'
option htmode 'HT40'
option channel 'auto'
option legacy_rates '0'
option country 'ES'
config wifi-iface 'default_radio1'
option device 'radio1'
option network 'lan'
option mode 'ap'
option wpa_disable_eapol_key_retries '1'
option key 'Password123'
option ssid 'Network2G'
option encryption 'psk2+ccmp'
config wifi-iface 'wifinet2'
option ssid 'MainWiFi'
option device 'radio0'
option mode 'sta'
option key 'MainPassword'
option network 'wwan'
option encryption 'psk2+ccmp'
Does anyone know any reason why this happen? Any invalid settings?
Thanks in advance.