Gordon, thanks for chiming in.
I'm now doing crash course on hostapd. The command is actually 'iw', and the important part from 'iw phy0 info' is:
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Band 2:
Capabilities: 0x11ce
HT20/HT40
SM Power Save disabled
RX HT40 SGI
TX STBC
RX STBC 1-stream
Max AMSDU length: 7935 bytes
DSSS/CCK HT40
Maximum RX AMPDU length 65535 bytes (exponent: 0x003)
Minimum RX AMPDU time spacing: 8 usec (0x06)
HT TX/RX MCS rate indexes supported: 0-15
Frequencies:
* 5180 MHz [36] (17.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS)
* 5200 MHz [40] (17.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS)
* 5220 MHz [44] (17.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS)
* 5240 MHz [48] (17.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS)
* 5260 MHz [52] (17.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS, radar detection)
* 5280 MHz [56] (17.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS, radar detection)
* 5300 MHz [60] (17.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS, radar detection)
* 5320 MHz [64] (17.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS, radar detection)
* 5500 MHz [100] (17.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS, radar detection)
* 5520 MHz [104] (16.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS, radar detection)
* 5540 MHz [108] (16.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS, radar detection)
* 5560 MHz [112] (16.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS, radar detection)
* 5580 MHz [116] (16.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS, radar detection)
* 5600 MHz [120] (16.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS, radar detection)
* 5620 MHz [124] (16.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS, radar detection)
* 5640 MHz [128] (16.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS, radar detection)
* 5660 MHz [132] (16.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS, radar detection)
* 5680 MHz [136] (16.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS, radar detection)
* 5700 MHz [140] (16.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS, radar detection)
* 5745 MHz [149] (16.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS)
* 5765 MHz [153] (16.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS)
* 5785 MHz [157] (16.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS)
* 5805 MHz [161] (16.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS)
* 5825 MHz [165] (16.0 dBm) (passive scanning, no IBSS)
This means that the device _cannot_ be set as AP on 5 GHz band. Which is, you know, kinda surprising :/
Can you try if you can setup your B3 in 5GHz mode?
Also, web interface in my case attempts to set 5 GHz as '0' (although I tried 36, 56 and 100 manually).