P1p1mrx·Nov 7, 2023
Looks like you're referring to https://github.com/kaloz/mwlwifi/issues/389
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mac80211 driver for the Marvell 88W8864 802.11ac chip
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8 sourcesAccording to the openwrt wiki the WRT3200 and WRT32X have identical hardware [1][2]
I tried several patches but nothing helped. As I understand it it's the closed source abandoned (?) WiFi firmware that's the issue. I suspect it can't handle interference , which which is why it works great for some and horrible for others.
I see there are new commits on the driver repository [3], so maybe I'll try again but I don't have my hopes up...
[1] https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt3200acm
[2] https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt32x?datasrt=ethernet%20gb...
[3] https://github.com/kaloz/mwlwifi/commits/master
In OpenWrt 23.05The WRT1200AC family is not well supported. The Ethernet part should work fine, but the Wifi is unsupported since some years now, see here the repository: https://github.com/kaloz/mwlwifi The vendors are not interested in this hardware any more, but they have very good marketing and sales. Linksys and Marvell also did not really support the OpenWrt community, they just had good marketing. If your WRT1200AC device does not work well with OpenWrt do not complain to OpenWrt, but complain to the Linksys support.
The WRT1200AC family for example does not support WPA3, because the closed source Wifi firmware does not support it. The 15 years old WRT54G supports WPA3, it is just very slow. ;-)
Currently I would suggest the Linksys E8450 / Belkin RT3200 (same hardware) or some other device using the current Mediatek platform with MT7622 + MT7915
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+ MT7531. (2 X Cortex-A53, Wifi 6) All chips are supported in recent upstream Linux kernel, including Wifi. The Mediatek router team is currently doing pretty good upstream open source work for their chips.
I'd like to express general caution with upgrading to 21.02 on Linksys WRT-series routers; the Marvell "open-source" firmware isn't truly open source (it has proprietary binary blobs) and development seems to have halted sometime in 2020.
Many users report Wi-Fi connectivity issues[0]. When I did an upgrade, I was unable to connect my laptop and Roomba to wifi, and had to rollback to 19.07.8.
[0] https://github.com/kaloz/mwlwifi/issues
In OpenWrt 21.02.0 ReleasedThe latest router in the series is Linksys WRT3200ACM: https://www.linksys.com/us/p/P-WRT3200ACM/
It has decent open source support and even WiFi drivers are open: https://github.com/kaloz/mwlwifi
The WiFi firmware though is not, which became a problem when NXP bought Marvel that made the chips for WRT3200ACM. NXP is unresponsive and doesn't do anything to update the firmware.
See: https://community.nxp.com/t5/Wireless-Connectivity/Drivers-f...
In WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open SourceIt's even worse. Driver development has stopped: https://github.com/kaloz/mwlwifi/commits/master
Many like the R7800. I do not.
The XiaoMi 3G is also a good option. The driver is open source and actively developed. (The USB3 port can cause interference in 2.4Ghz though).
Anything based on ipq806x and ipq4xxx should have excellent WiFi performance. (Including the R7800)
In OpenWrt 18.06.4It's not upstreamed, but it's regularly updated: https://github.com/kaloz/mwlwifi
I think @yuhhaurlin works for Linksys, but I'm not sure.
In Foxconn buys Belkin for $866MSure, development builds can vary in quality, especially on different hardware. It also depends on WiFi driver quite a lot. In case of WRT1900ACS at least, my experience was quite good. It's using mwlwifi: https://github.com/kaloz/mwlwifi
In Ubiquiti all the things: How I fixed my dodgy Wi-Fi