Yikes - able to delete master Wi-Fi interfaces!

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I’m implementing CAPsMAN at home mainly as this is my lab. Bit of overkill as only got the main hAP ax2 router and a hAP ax lite as access point. Got it working fine for the hAP ax lite but was struggling to get the router working - getting it to pick up CAPs via 127.0.0.1 etc. Thought I’d delete the existing WiFi configurations - there were the two master interfaces and four slaves.

But I accidentally highlighted all the WiFi interfaces and deleted them - including the master interfaces! That would be like removing ether1 interface (you can’t - it’s greyed out). Restored the backup and I can indeed delete the master WiFi interface…

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There is no way to add it back either… out of interest, I factory reset the access point and tried removing the interface there and quite rightly, I get an error.

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The router isn’t on latest version so going to try that first.

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Ahh I think I’ve might have worked out why/how… in my experimentation of CAPsMAN, I’d added the “wireless” package so I could compare old CAPsMAN with new CAPsMAN. Once I’d finished those tests, I removed the “wireless” package and restored the configuration. However, for some reason, this left the “wifi-qcom” package disabled - and I hadn’t spotted this. While it’s disabled, you are able to remove the master Wi-Fi interfaces.

BTW - after re-enabling the “wifi-qcom” package and rebooting, the wireless interfaces wifi1 and wifi2 come back.