Hi,
I'm new to openwrt so please bear with me
I'm trying to set up a 80211s mesh using the image lede-17.01.4-brcm2708-bcm2710-rpi-3-ext4-sdcard.img and a pair of edimax ew-7811un USB devices, I am using the firmware: kmod-rtl8192cu for this purpose. The usb wifi installs and detects fine (and works in AP mode,) however it doesn't seem to come up when a mesh interface is created, no networks are seen and my devices dont connect to each other. I believe this should be supported as iw phy0 info lists mesh-point under supported interface modes for this adaptor?
Exact error + reproduction steps:
root@OpenWrt:~# iw phy phy0 interface add mesh0 type mp mesh_id mymesh
root@OpenWrt:~# ifconfig -a | grep mesh0
mesh0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 74:DA:38:E2:3F:2E
root@OpenWrt:~# ifconfig mesh0 up
rtl8192cu: MAC auto ON okay!
rtl8192cu: Tx queue select: 0x05
rtl8192cu: Network type 7 not supported!
Ipv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_IP): mesh0: link is not ready
Ipv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): mesh0: link becomes ready
iw phy0 info:
root@OpenWrt:~# iw phy0 info
Wiphy phy0
max # scan SSIDs: 4
max scan IEs length: 2257 bytes
max # sched scan SSIDs: 0
max # match sets: 0
max # scan plans: 1
max scan plan interval: -1
max scan plan iterations: 0
RTS threshold: 2347
Retry short limit: 7
Retry long limit: 4
Coverage class: 0 (up to 0m)
Available Antennas: TX 0 RX 0
Supported interface modes:
* IBSS
* managed
* AP
* AP/VLAN
* monitor
* mesh point
* P2P-client
* P2P-GO
Band 1:
Capabilities: 0x186e
HT20/HT40
SM Power Save disabled
RX HT20 SGI
RX HT40 SGI
No RX STBC
Max AMSDU length: 7935 bytes
DSSS/CCK HT40
Maximum RX AMPDU length 65535 bytes (exponent: 0x003)
Minimum RX AMPDU time spacing: 16 usec (0x07)
HT Max RX data rate: 150 Mbps
HT TX/RX MCS rate indexes supported: 0-7, 32
Frequencies:
* 2412 MHz [1] (20.0 dBm)
* 2417 MHz [2] (20.0 dBm)
* 2422 MHz [3] (20.0 dBm)
* 2427 MHz [4] (20.0 dBm)
* 2432 MHz [5] (20.0 dBm)
* 2437 MHz [6] (20.0 dBm)
* 2442 MHz [7] (20.0 dBm)
* 2447 MHz [8] (20.0 dBm)
* 2452 MHz [9] (20.0 dBm)
* 2457 MHz [10] (20.0 dBm)
* 2462 MHz [11] (20.0 dBm)
* 2467 MHz [12] (20.0 dBm)
* 2472 MHz [13] (20.0 dBm)
* 2484 MHz [14] (disabled)
interface combinations are not supported
HT Capability overrides:
* MCS: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
* maximum A-MSDU length
* supported channel width
* short GI for 40 MHz
* max A-MPDU length exponent
* min MPDU start spacing