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WAX214 - Only U-NII-1 5Ghz channels available
Hi, since first firmware I saw erratic behaviour when trying to choose the 5GHz channels. Sometimes it only shows first channels (as picture attached) and sometimes after a reboot the whole list ...
I had the same issue, went through the support ticket route and was told it's intentional.
I am going through the process of returning the unit as defective by design and unfit for purpose. I will also be reporting Netgear to the WiFi Alliance as I very much doubt this is compliant with the spec.
I am looking for another vendor for this project and will never consider Netgear for any future projects. They have wasted nearly a week of my time with this piece of junk.
I’ve reverted to the first firmware and I can select now power and channels. As you said, this is not compliant with WiFi Alliance.
I’m not going to return the unit, just waiting for OpwnWRT to release a working version to this device to 100% exploit all its capabilities. Now it’s half useful.
I’m not going to return the unit, just waiting for OpwnWRT to release a working version to this device to 100% exploit all its capabilities. Now it’s half useful.
I'm on the first firmware and only have 4 channels available
- In my case I’ve to reboot up to 3 or 4 times to get all the channels populated. All channels doesn’t appears on the first power up. You need to reboot several times. Also I’ve full power configured and 2.4GHz channel 1 selected. Don’t ask me why but if I select channel 1 I never get the full list of 5GHz channels
No GPL source released by Engenius or Negear for the WAX214/218 (or the Engenius EWS357/377 - the WAX214/218's OEM source). Not likely to ever get OpenWRT working right on these, IMO. This is inspite of the WiFi AP being seemingly run on OpenWRT (if I had to guess, probably an older version with lots of qualcomm binaries that don't work with newer kernels). The main open source wifi developers seem to have moved on (IMO) from Qualcomm/Atheros chipsets and onto Mediatek. The WAX214 uses a Qualcomm IPQ 6010.
I dont think the 'qualcomm binaries' work properly on the existing kernel if the device logs are anything to go by.
Tried to flash EWS357APv3 firmware v3.8.4 into my WAX214 just for fun but it detects that firmware is not from the same vendor and gives and error. I don't have the knowledge to use binwalk to dump the firmware and modify the headers but if someone want to try... maybe the OEM firmware is more fine tuned.
Regards
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