GL-MT1300: WPA2 config not possible on LuCI

micmon · 2021-01-06T20:20:28.028Z

After installing LuCI on GL-MT1300 I found that there seems to be no way to configure WPA2 for WiFi networks? All I can chose is:

WEP Open System (weak security)
WEP Share Key (weak security)
No Encryption (open network)

I reset the box a few times now and what I noticed is the following message being shown the first time I got to the wireless settings:

Wireless configuration migration

The existing wireless configuration needs to be changed for LuCI to function properly.

Upon pressing “Continue”, anonymous “wifi-iface” sections will be assigned with a name in the form wifinet# and the network will be restarted to apply the updated configuration.

Is this a known bug, am I still missing a package or how can I fix this?

alzhao · 2021-01-10T11:23:55.030Z

MT1300 is also using MTK’s proprietary wifi driver and luci is not compatible.

micmon · 2021-01-10T11:49:31.348Z

Well, that is probably the reason why LuCI does not ship by default but according to More Settings - GL.iNet Docs it can be installed manually on the beryl which now seems misleading to me.

micmon · 2021-01-10T11:55:17.941Z

In case anyone runs into the same problem: in the end I solved my problem by adding option network ‘net’ to config wifi-iface in /etc/config/wireless.

Right now I am still trying to figure out why my guest network does not use encryption which may be related to the above “fix”.

micmon · 2021-01-11T20:30:41.244Z

FYI to get WPA2 encryption in all Wifi networks the solution was to not delte the Guest-5G network (which I do not usw). As soon as this gets removed from the wireless file, the Guest-2G is created as an open Wifi for whatever reason.