GL-E750 MUDI connect to iOS 16.3.1 hotspot is not working

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Hi there,

My Mudi (running version 3215 / 3216) is connected to the hotspot which is shared by my Iphone14pro.
Unfortunately the WWW is not reachable when using the hotspot as gateway.

Other devices which connects directly to the hotspot of the iPhone works properly.

Do you have any idea what the reason can be?

I have tested this with an other iPhone which runs with iOS15.7 at the moment. This is working correctly. So it seems to be an iOS16 issue.

Best Marco

2

I tried ar300m, with iphone8 plus ios 16.3.1. It works.
The wireless config(/etc/config/wireless) is

config wifi-iface 'sta'
        option device 'radio0'
        option network 'wwan'
        option mode 'sta'
        option ifname 'wlan-sta'
        option ssid 'Dongming'
        option bssid 'BE:B9:4D:59:B0:49'
        option channel '6'
        option encryption 'sae-mixed'
        option key '66666666'
        option disabled '0'

It uses 2.4G, how about your config please? That will help to locate the issue.

3

Hey thanks for the quick answer…

My config file looks a bit different than yours.

The wireless config(/etc/config/wireless) is

config wifi-device ‘radio0’
option type ‘mac80211’
option channel ‘36’
option hwmode ‘11a’
option path ‘pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0’
option htmode ‘VHT80’
option doth ‘0’
option txpower ‘20’
option txpower_max ‘20’
option band ‘5G’
option disabled ‘0’

config wifi-iface ‘default_radio0’
option device ‘radio0’
option network ‘lan’
option mode ‘ap’
option ssid ‘GL-E750-0b1’
option encryption ‘psk2’
option key ‘goodlife’
option disassoc_low_ack ‘0’
option ifname ‘wlan0’
option wds ‘1’

I downgrade to the latest public stable release. So currently I run on version 3215.

4

Thanks for your info.
Gonna ask a colleague to check this further.

5

Thank you. Looking forward to hear from you…

6

I learn that it fails occasionally, and more related to ios issue, could you try restarting your iPhone or turning off and on the hotspot and see if it works?

7

Hello,

thank you for your reply. Actually I have already done this a few times in the past without success.

Just to clearify, the internal communication between devices which are connected to the WIFI of the MUDI works properly. The issue is only the WAN-OUT. It is not possible to reach the internet, although the iphone14pro which provides the hotspot, displays that a device is connect to the hotpot.

Do you need further logfiles or stuff to find out what the reason could be?

Best Marco

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Does wlan-sta interface get an IP address from the hotspot? Do you set the 5G to HT20 bandwidth?

9

Hello,

yes the 5G was set to HT20, now I changed this to 40HT → it still does not work.

The same behaviour when you try to connect the MUDI via thethering USB cable to the iPhone14Pro, this is also not working…

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10

Hey,

I did some more tests…

It looks like the iPhone only assigns ipv6 addresses to clients which are connected to the hotspot. Maybe this can be a reason. As I told you before, the issue happen via wifi as well as cable tethering USB connection.

633.631161] usb 1-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-platform
[ 633.798977] ipheth 1-1.3:4.2: Apple iPhone USB Ethernet device attached
[ 678.501566] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[ 678.508633] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[ 680.111790] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready

Looking forward to hear from you…

11

Hello

during the meantime I was able to solve the issue.
I have reset the iPhone network configuration and abvoisly this could solve the problem with this error.

So again, thank you very much for you help.

Best Marco