Compex wle900vx one radio visible only

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Does anyone use Compex WL900VX?

I have installed the card, but I see one radio only

$ wifi status
{
        "radio0": {
                "up": true,
                "pending": false,
                "autostart": true,
                "disabled": false,
                "retry_setup_failed": false,
                "config": {
                        "path": "soc/3500000.pcie/pci0001:00/0001:00:00.0/0001:01:00.0/0001:02:02.0/0001:04:00.0",
                        "country": "IE",
                        "channel": "auto",
                        "htmode": "HT40",
                        "hwmode": "11g"
                },
                "interfaces": [
                  ...
        }
}

dmesg does not seem to show any firmware issues

$ dmesg | grep ath10k
[   16.553496] ath10k_pci 0001:04:00.0: Adding to iommu group 3
[   16.559288] ath10k 5.4 driver, optimized for CT firmware, probing pci device: 0x3c.
[   16.566972] ath10k_mac_create, priv_size: 1624  hw: 0000000073505f46  hw->priv: 000000001da9cdf1
[   16.578644] ath10k_pci 0001:04:00.0: pci irq msi oper_irq_mode 2 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
[   16.832917] ath10k_pci 0001:04:00.0: qca988x hw2.0 target 0x4100016c chip_id 0x043202ff sub 0000:0000
[   16.842167] ath10k_pci 0001:04:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 0 dfs 1 testmode 0
[   16.850425] ath10k_pci 0001:04:00.0: firmware ver 10.1-ct-8x-__fW-022-538f0906 api 2 features wmi-10.x,has-wmi-mgmt-tx,mfp,txstatus-noack,wmi-10.x-CT,ratemask-CT,txrate-CT,get-temp-CT,tx-rc-CT,cust-stats-CT,retry-gt2-CT,txrate2-CT,beacon-cb-CT,wmi-block-ack-CT crc32 e1c91a74
[   16.904024] ath10k_pci 0001:04:00.0: board_file api 1 bmi_id N/A crc32 bebc7c08
[   17.821789] ath10k_pci 0001:04:00.0: unsupported HTC service id: 1536
[   17.828343] ath10k_pci 0001:04:00.0: 10.1 wmi init: vdevs: 16  peers: 127  tid: 256
[   17.845453] ath10k_pci 0001:04:00.0: wmi print 'P 128 V 8 T 410'
[   17.851580] ath10k_pci 0001:04:00.0: wmi print 'msdu-desc: 1424  sw-crypt: 0 ct-sta: 0'
[   17.859586] ath10k_pci 0001:04:00.0: wmi print 'alloc rem: 20984 iram: 25656'
[   17.925517] ath10k_pci 0001:04:00.0: htt-ver 2.1 wmi-op 2 htt-op 2 cal otp max-sta 128 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
[   17.935167] ath10k_pci 0001:04:00.0: NOTE:  Firmware DBGLOG output disabled in debug_mask: 0x10000000
[   23.105260] ath10k_pci 0001:04:00.0: unsupported HTC service id: 1536
[   23.111726] ath10k_pci 0001:04:00.0: 10.1 wmi init: vdevs: 16  peers: 127  tid: 256
[   23.128862] ath10k_pci 0001:04:00.0: wmi print 'P 128 V 8 T 410'
[   23.134943] ath10k_pci 0001:04:00.0: wmi print 'msdu-desc: 1424  sw-crypt: 0 ct-sta: 0'
[   23.142962] ath10k_pci 0001:04:00.0: wmi print 'alloc rem: 20984 iram: 25656'
[   23.208973] ath10k_pci 0001:04:00.0: pdev param 0 not supported by firmware

The version I am using is

$ uname -a
Linux OpenWrt 5.4.61 #0 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 21 00:08:33 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux

I would appreciate any suggestions.

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The radio chip in the WLE900VX only has a single tuner which can only operate on a single band (2.4GHz or 5GHz) at a time.
If you are trying to build a dual band access point you will need two of them.

There are some Wifi6/11ax cards which are ‘Dual Band Simultaneous’ and are able to emit on both 2.4G and 5G at the same time. We are testing a few of these at the moment at Traverse but can’t recommend any right now as they are very new and have various issues.

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:man_facepalming:

Thanks for the info. I am not expecting to be able to get Wifi6 card anytime soon. Even Wifi5 cards are hard to get at the moment. Looking forward for your recommendations in the future.