Hi
When my flint ax1800 upgraded to v4 i completely lost the “Wireless” pane.
When I clicked in it i got an error in the web browser.
It worked fine before in the old interface. ( v3 )
I managed the wifi via luci and assumed it would be fixed by the next update.
But the v4.2.3 upgrade did not fix it.
So i looked in the nginx error log and saw the problem.
For some reason the reg.get was not being set or the “country” variable was null.
I fixed it by editing line 317 in wifi.lua ( /usr/lib/lua/gl/wifi.lua)
Basically I replaced the variable “country” with the static 2-letter string for the country that I am in.
( ie “JP” “US” “DE” “AU” etc )
I changed local ranges = reg.get(country)
to local ranges = reg.get("XY")
for the country that contains the flint ax1800.
I did not even have to restart - as soon as i saved the wifi.lua file then i could click on the “Wireless” tab and go to that page.
Just wanted to share in case anyone else has this issue
Cheers,
nonattribution
Nicely done. You didn’t have to reboot because /usr/lib/lua/gl/wifi.lua is a Lua script. OpenWrt Linux, being under the hood of the GL GUI, uses a lot of Lua. Scripts aren’t compiled programs so they’re run ‘on demand’ with whatever they’re found to be containing… like you edit(s).
The country codes appear to be ISO-3166-1/Alpha2 values.
Don’t forget to make a backup of your custom workaround.
Fantastic, thanks.
That is the first time i messed with lua other than minor edits to nmap scripts.
I have used reg.set and reg.get before( allegedly ) - so I got lucky in figuring out the work-around.
But that backup how-to is great
