WAX206 24.10.0-rc4 WAN port OoO

Hi all,
Maybe you know a fix for my issue that the wan port is not working on 24.10.0-rc4 ?

The WAX206 are used as dump APs with the lan1 (tagged) port for the vlans and other lan ports untagged (which works since snapshots, 23.05.x and 24.10.0-rc2/4). There are three interfaces with the 3 different vlans, no wan interface, no firewall, no dhcp etc ... it's dumb APs. I create my images via openwrt image builder (debian container) for a few years now.

  1. I wanted to replace lan1 with the wan port (2.5 GbE). "It's not working", "no link".
  2. To analyse the issue I put back lan1 as tagged etc and added the wan port as untagged vlan where I attached a notebook to see whether the port is working at all. "It doesn't". Kernel says "br-lan: port 5(wan) entered blocking state" and then "br-lan: port 5(wan) entered disabled state" as well on the overview page it says "no link" for wan port (2.5 GbE) and on the notebook it says "not connected" (macbook).

Do I need to install any package for the wan (RTL8221B) ?
I found this link, not sure if the fix is already contained in 24.10.0-rc4 ?

Many thanks in advance and I LOVE openwrt !

Cheers, Blinton

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It should be in RC4, and snapshots.

Hi frollic,
thanks for your quick reply, sorry I was tired after 15 hours car driving... so I could only test it now.
I downloaded the openwrt standard 24.10.0-rc4 and 23.05.5 versions (to make sure it's not caused by my image builder version), and tested with the config as-is.
23.05.5 -> wan port works as ethernet port (1 GbE due to current switch).
24.10.0.-rc4 -> wan port is not working
I guess it will be in the final version 24.10.0. However, I am super happy it works in 23.05.5. Because tomorrow I should get 10 Gbps fiber internet, so I can install my APs on the 2.5 Gbps port.
Have a great day and weekend ahead !
Cheers, blinton

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On 24.10.0-rc5 the 2.5GbE WAN interface used as LAN (dumb AP) works again on the Netgear WAX206 !
Thanks a lot !!!
Cheers, Blinton

I had a WAX206 which did not work on 24.10.0-rc5
Though dmesg | grep wan shows the driver is loaded:

PHY [mdio-bus:07] driver [RTL8221B-VB-CG 2.5Gbps PHY (C45)] (irq=POLL)

The issue was fixed by disabling EEE:

So running ethtool --set-eee wan eee off tx-lpi off has helped.

If one does not have WAN access on the device yet, one can download it using the ipk:
https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10-SNAPSHOT/packages/aarch64_cortex-a53/base/ethtool_6.10-r1_aarch64_cortex-a53.ipk
syncing it to the device's tmp dir and running opkg install /tmp/ethtool*

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This bug is fixed for me with https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/17701 finally :slight_smile:

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works like a charm, big big thank you !!!

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