Missing radio interfaces on EAP615-Wall

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Missing radio interfaces on EAP615-Wall
Missing radio interfaces on EAP615-Wall
2022-07-24 21:20:40
Model: EAP615-Wall  
Hardware Version: V1
Firmware Version: 1.1.0

Looking through my controller UI recently, I noticed that no client devices were connecting to one of my EAPs (EAP615-Wall). When I reviewed the its configuration, I noticed that neither radio had a channel configured. So I logged into the device via SSH and ran ifconfig, but it only showed eth0, lo, and br0 interfaces. The ra0 and rax0 interfaces were missing!? Restarting, resetting, running standalone, downgrading, upgrading, switching POE ports/switches... all did nothing. It seems like a hardware issue, but why would this happen all of a sudden? The device was fairly cool to the touch (unlike my other 615, which was warm), so I'm at a loss as to what happened. Has anyone experienced this before and, if so, what did you do?

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Re:Missing radio interfaces on EAP615-Wall
2022-07-25 06:20:20

  @prooney It looks like a hardware issue. After resettings there should be a default SSID called "TP-Link 2.4Ghz_XXXX", if you cannot see this default SSID, you can contact tplink and ask for warranty

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Re:Missing radio interfaces on EAP615-Wall
2022-07-25 19:39:49

  @Somnus, thanks for replying. Yes, I've contacted support to investigate the issue, but I agree it's likely a hardware problem. For completeness' sake, here's what I'm seeing in the controller for that EAP:

 

But for a functioning EAP, here's what I see:

 

 

And from SSH, I only see eth0, lo, and br0:

/bin $ ifconfig

br0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B0:A7:B9:XX:XX:XX  
          inet addr:10.0.0.6  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1872733 errors:0 dropped:819177 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12634 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:386969934 (369.0 MiB)  TX bytes:3779997 (3.6 MiB)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B0:A7:B9:XX:XX:XX  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1876806 errors:0 dropped:2078 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12638 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:414423493 (395.2 MiB)  TX bytes:4029571 (3.8 MiB)
          Interrupt:10

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1 
          RX bytes:360 (360.0 B)  TX bytes:360 (360.0 B)

 

But from a functioning EAP, I see:

/bin $ ifconfig

br0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B0:A7:XX:XX:XX  
          inet addr:10.0.0.7  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2110108 errors:0 dropped:909376 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:19041 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:426630307 (406.8 MiB)  TX bytes:8155882 (7.7 MiB)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B0:A7:B9:XX:XX:XX  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:20294940 errors:0 dropped:2211 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:24675505 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:11007771692 (10.2 GiB)  TX bytes:11609301320 (10.8 GiB)
          Interrupt:10 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1 
          RX bytes:360 (360.0 B)  TX bytes:360 (360.0 B)

ra0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B0:A7:B9:XX:XX:XX
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:94627 errors:32616 dropped:32616 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:73151 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:13751731 (13.1 MiB)  TX bytes:43993236 (41.9 MiB)
          Interrupt:31 

rax0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B0:A7:B9:XX:XX:XX
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:24951181 errors:371313 dropped:371313 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:18195593 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:2911865839 (2.7 GiB)  TX bytes:1950468022 (1.8 GiB)

 

Hope this helps someone else identify this issue.

 

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Re:Missing radio interfaces on EAP615-Wall
2022-11-20 22:55:25

  @prooney are you solve the issue?
why you have big amount of error and dropped packets?

+20y experience in Linux/UNIX, +12y VMware, +10y as network admin, +8y as AIX admin (professional) I really know what is going on at background, please don't try to cheat me TP-Link :)
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