Wifi disabled when I use 80211k option

Hi.

I am using 2 APs
Edgecore EAP102, Archer C50 V3.
And both OpenWrt versions are 23.05 SNAPSHOT.

I am setting parameters for the wifi roaming.
And in Luci I could enable the WLAN Roaming option and domain things.
But after I added these options

      option bss_transition '1'
      option ieee80211k '1'

to /etc/config/wireless, The wifi disabled!
Both my APs are having the same symptom.

Can you help me?


The wifi is working well


But when I add these options for roaming 802.11k, 802.11v


The wifi disabled like this. Its status is enable but never works.

Which hostpad package do you have? Try full?

I just typed "opkg list" and there is only one.
hostapd-common - 2024.03.09~695277a5-r3

is this correct?

Nope, should be wpad-mbedtls

take a look at wpad-* packages, which ones do you have installed?

@zekica

I just typed "opkg list-installed" and I looked up what I have now.
There is "wpad-basic-mbedtls - 2024.03.09~695277a5-r3".
Is this correct??

No, you need to remove that and install wpad-mbedtls

Can you explain advantage you get enablin those knobs?

Well, I want to use roaming. And as well known, 802.11k and 802.11v are effective when they are used with 802.11r (Roaming). So I want to enable them. And they also need for DAWN or usteer.

[OpenWrt Wiki] Setting up DAWN and band-steering in OpenWrt

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

No need to enable kvr in config, daemon enables them on the fly as needed.

Shortly, I dont need to enable kvr options because usteer or dawn will automatically works well? right?

usteer works automatically, dawn not.
you need wpad-(notbasic-)mbedtls to get device signal reports support.
And it is failsafe as to install default sysupgrade without breaking connectivity with too advanced parameters.

Actually I already installed DAWN in the past. But it seems work well now like this below. I dont know the reason. But it really does.
maybe it is just a disguise things... I dont know.

Now I upgrade the package "wpad-basic-mbedtls" to "wpad-mbedtls".
I hope this would help dawn or usteer.
I will test them and optimize.
Thank you for your reply!

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