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by vmp 2541 days ago
OpenWRT is awesome. Though I have my own story of woe: they switched a very specific WiFi driver implementation to another one which completely broke my 5GHz wifi, it leaked kernel-memory until the AP became unresponsive (fast). Though OpenWRT is so awesome that even someone like me who has no experience with embedded hardware can compile a new firmware with the old WiFi driver and it worked! :)
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metildaa 2541 days ago
The first gen Archer C7 routers kernel panic as Qualcomm decided to not support the 5GHz card in the driver they use (but later revisions of said card are supported). You end up needing to open the router and remove the card just to get it to boot.
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mangix 2541 days ago
That issue will be fixed in 19.07.

https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/34113999ef430ce74a...

Given that the pci card is removable, it makes sense to replace with something else.

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mangix 2541 days ago
I'm curious. What implementation is this? The only thing that comes to mind is ath10k-ct.

edit: Recompilation should not be necessary. opkg remove && opkg update && opkg install should do it.

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