You seem to be having problems using uci-defaults. So forget that. Copy the running/working/complete config file from your device into files/etc/config/wireless. You need to make the files directory. You can put anything in there.
weedy@HAF ~/projects/openwrt $ ls -al files/etc/config/ total 60 drwxr-xr-x 2 weedy weedy 4096 Jul 13 23:05 . drwxr-xr-x 8 weedy weedy 4096 Jul 31 00:35 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 weedy weedy 138 Jul 13 23:05 darkstat -rw-r--r-- 1 weedy weedy 441 Jul 13 23:05 ddns -rw-r--r-- 1 weedy weedy 1204 Jul 30 22:48 dhcp -rw-r--r-- 1 weedy weedy 119 Jul 13 23:05 dropbear -rw-r--r-- 1 weedy weedy 4290 Jul 13 23:05 firewall -rw-r--r-- 1 weedy weedy 38 Jun 11 2013 netcheck -rw-r--r-- 1 weedy weedy 1059 Jul 13 23:05 network -rw-r--r-- 1 weedy weedy 1821 Jun 30 21:04 qos -rw-r--r-- 1 weedy weedy 761 Jul 13 23:05 system -rw-r--r-- 1 weedy weedy 2165 Jul 13 23:05 uhttpd -rw-r--r-- 1 weedy weedy 639 Jul 13 23:05 upnpd -rw-r--r-- 1 weedy weedy 1353 Jul 13 23:05 wireless _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel