X5000R wireless 5GHz issue

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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  • Using stable 21.02.2 (not snapshot)
  • Able to turn on 5GHz wifi (WPA2-PSK/WPA3-SEA/80MHz/AX) by command line with below config
  • 2.4GHz wifi (WPA2-PSK/WPA3-SEA/20MHz/AX) is also available
  • ssid is "openwrt_5g" and wifi password is "openwrt"
  • DO NOT USE LUCI (Web UI) to config wireless for this router (until some1 fix it after 21.02.2), UI is broken for 5GHz setup

/etc/config/wireless

config wifi-device 'radio0'
option type 'mac80211'
option path '1e140000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:02:00.0'
option channel '1'
option band '2g'
option htmode 'HE20'
option cell_density '0'

config wifi-iface 'default_radio0'
option device 'radio0'
option network 'lan'
option mode 'ap'
option ssid ‘openwrt_2g’
option encryption 'sae-mixed'
option key ‘openwrt’

config wifi-device 'radio1'
option type 'mac80211'
option path '1e140000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:02:00.0+1'
option channel '36'
option band '5g'
option htmode 'HE80'

config wifi-iface 'default_radio1'
option device 'radio1'
option network 'lan'
option mode 'ap'
option ssid ‘openwrt_5g’
option encryption 'sae-mixed'
option key ‘openwrt’