WLANPI R4 with Panda Wireless AXE3000 - no SSID visible in Hotspot mode

[schraderbn]

I have set up the WLANPi and it works fine. Only the Hotspot Mode doesn't show any SSID. The Ethernet ist connected the DHCP Server works and I can see the WLAN IP address 172.16.43.1. I have checked the hostapd.conf and left the default settings. The USB-WLAN-Adapter has a different driver (visible in the WLANpi WLAN Interfaces: Driver: mt7921u. I tried to change the drive in the hosted.conf but without any success. I tried Bothe drivers, too but the SSID is not shown in my iPhones. Do I have to change anything else?

[schraderbn]

# WLAN SSID
ssid=WLAN Pi 95d

# WPA-PSK
wpa_passphrase=qBnjFDp7NSnQ

# Mode options: a=5GHz / g=2.4GHz
hw_mode=g

# Set 2.4GHz Channel - 1,6,11
# Set 5GHz Channel - 36,40,44,48,149,153,157,161,165
channel=1

# Set Country Code (Use your own country code here)
country_code=DE
ieee80211d=1

# Set Interface and Driver to user
interface=wlan0
driver=nl80211
driver=mt7921u

# IEEE 802.11n SETTINGS
ieee80211n=1
#ht_capab=[HT40+][SHORT-GI-20][SHORT-GI-40][DSSS_CCK-40]

# IEEE 802.11ac SETTINGS
ieee80211ac=1
#vht_oper_chwidth=1
vht_capab=[SU-BEAMFORMEE-1][HTC-VHT-1][VHT-LINK-ADAPT2][MAX-AMSDU-7935][GF]
#vht_oper_centr_freq_seg0_idx=42

# Set Security Parameters (WPA2-Personal here)
auth_algs=1    # 1 = shared key
wpa=2
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
rsn_pairwise=CCMP

# Enable WMM :)
wmm_enabled=1
uapsd_advertisement_enabled=1

# Enable BSS Load which advertises the number of connected clients
bss_load_update_period=50

# Channel utilization does not seem to be supported by Intel AX210

[schraderbn]

wlanpi@wlanpi-95d:~ $ nmcli
pan0: connected (externally) to pan0
"pan0"
bridge, 6A:C0:FD:49:86:8F, sw, mtu 1500
inet4 169.254.43.1/24
route4 169.254.43.0/24

eth0: unmanaged
"eth0"
ethernet (bcmgenet), E4:5F:01:54:49:5D, hw, mtu 1500

usb0: unmanaged
"usb0"
ethernet (g_ether), A2:9F:F5:C4:34:A7, hw, mtu 1500

lo: unmanaged
"lo"
loopback (unknown), 00:00:00:00:00:00, sw, mtu 65536

wlan0: unmanaged
"MediaTek Wi-Fi"
wifi (mt7921u), 9C:EF:D5:F6:02:BF, hw, mtu 1500

Use "nmcli device show" to get complete information about known devices and
"nmcli connection show" to get an overview on active connection profiles.

Consult nmcli(1) and nmcli-examples(7) manual pages for complete usage details.

[jiribrejcha]

We have found a bug in Hotspot mode. Please upgrade to the latest hotspot package using:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install wlanpi-hotspot

[schraderbn]

Hi jiribrejcha, I updated the hotspot today but I don´t get the SSID visable. I changed the driver, too, changed the SSID, tried the 5 GHz band but have still the same issue. I restarted the OS several times and switched back to classic mode and back withou success.

WLAN SSID

ssid=WLAN Pi

WPA-PSK

wpa_passphrase=WL@NP123

Mode options: a=5GHz / g=2.4GHz

hw_mode=a

Set 2.4GHz Channel - 1,6,11

Set 5GHz Channel - 36,40,44,48,149,153,157,161,165

channel=48

Set Country Code (Use your own country code here)

country_code=DE
ieee80211d=1

Set Interface and Driver to user

interface=wlan0
#driver=nl80211
driver=mt7921u

IEEE 802.11n SETTINGS

ieee80211n=1
#ht_capab=[HT40+][SHORT-GI-20][SHORT-GI-40][DSSS_CCK-40]

IEEE 802.11ac SETTINGS

#ieee80211ac=1
#vht_oper_chwidth=1
#vht_capab=[SU-BEAMFORMEE-1][HTC-VHT-1][VHT-LINK-ADAPT2][MAX-AMSDU-7935][GF]
#vht_oper_centr_freq_seg0_idx=42

Set Security Parameters (WPA2-Personal here)

auth_algs=1 # 1 = shared key
wpa=2
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
rsn_pairwise=CCMP

Enable WMM :)

wmm_enabled=1
uapsd_advertisement_enabled=1

Enable BSS Load which advertises the number of connected clients

bss_load_update_period=50

Channel utilization does not seem to be supported by Intel AX210

chan_util_avg_period=600

[schraderbn]

Additional information:

The SSID of the WLAN console works fine.

Thx

Jens

[jiribrejcha]

It must be just a config issue in the hostapd.conf file of Hotspot mode. Can you switch back to Classic mode please, and compare the Wi-Fi Console config and the Hotspot configs? You should be able to copy changes from wconsole to hotspot and it should just work. There isn't any other difference between the 2 modes from wireless perspective.

/etc/wlanpi-hotspot/conf/hostapd.conf
/etc/wlanpi-wconsole/conf/hostapd.conf

[schraderbn]

Hi Jiri,

you are right, I compared both files but couldn´t see any issue. There were the following differences: Countrycode, SSID and selected frequency band and the driver (the originate was disabled by me plus I had set the drive to the one from the WLANPi screen). I changed the countywide and the driver back and it works now. After that I change the SSID, PSW and countycode again and it still works. May this was a combination of bug and config entry.

Thanks for your support.

Jens