Details for Orange Pi 4 LTS (UWE5622, sprdwl_ng), Armbian 26.11 trunk, kernel 6.18.57:
- Firmware loads fine (wcnmodem-38222.bin). 2.4 GHz works.
- 5 GHz (ch. 36, WPA2/CCMP, PMF disabled) depends on the AP mode (OpenWrt hostapd):
* AX or AC (tried 20 and 40 MHz): CTRL-EVENT-ASSOC-REJECT status_code=1.
AP logs "authenticated", then "Station sent an invalid association request"
* N only, 20 MHz (no VHT): associates and connects normally on 5180 MHz
- disable_vht=1 in wpa_supplicant does not change it, so the malformed VHT part of the association request seems to be added by the driver/firmware.
The same symptom (2.4 GHz only) was already reported on this board in 2023 on
kernel 6.1.30, so it doesn't look like a recent regression:
Anything specific you'd like me to check?