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I'm trying to create my own wireless router using a Raspberry Pi 2 and a TP-Link WN722N. I have OpenWRT running off the MicroSD card and I have installed LuCI, but I need to install the wireless card drivers via SSH. I've tried following the directions here:
OpenWrt → General Discussion → how to enable WN722N (AR9271) wifi usb on MR3020 ?

While the USB card is inserted, I install the drivers, then create the wireless interface:

# install drivers

opkg install kmod-ath9k-htc



# create wireless wan interface 

uci set network.wwan=interface

uci set network.wwan.proto=dhcp

uci set network.wwan.hostname="$STATION"

uci commit network

But when I attempt to enable the wifi interface, UCI gives me an Entry not found error. Every piece of advice I've read is to check /etc/config/wireless for the adapter's settings, but this file does not exist. This probably means that the adapter is not being recognized, but I am able to do this:

root@OpenWrt:~# wifi detect

config wifi-device  radio0

        option type     mac80211

        option channel  11

        option hwmode   11g

        option path     'platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.5/1-1.5:1.0'

        option htmode   HT20

        # REMOVE THIS LINE TO ENABLE WIFI:

        option disabled 1



config wifi-iface

        option device   radio0

        option network  lan

        option mode     ap

        option ssid     OpenWrt

        option encryption none



root@OpenWrt:~# lsusb

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp.

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

So clearly, the RPi is seeing the USB wireless adapter but it is not generating an /etc/config/wireless file. What am I doing wrong?

Any help appreciated, thanks!

It doesn't create the file to avoid configuration overlapping.

You must append on the file the detected configuration.

Use: wifi detect > /etc/config/wireless instead.

Hope it helps others.

did you insert the usb into a different usb slot? regarding option path: the 5 in the 1.5 is the usb slot id. if you pulled it out of the initial one, and put it into another slot, then you would need to manually update that to the new id. There may be a cli/shell command to do this, and perhaps that what the previous answer by CuSS would achieve with wifi detect > /etc/config/wireless