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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I left that church after my last wrt router that was advertised as being supported wound up in fact not being "completely" supported.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think you should be soured away from openwrt completely because its built for specific use cases with specifc routers

And open source coders can't reasonably create individual openwrt firmware versions for every router out there that quickly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No it was a linksys issue. But honestly I just replaced it was an Asus router and called it a day. It's a nice concept and works well for some people's use cases. It's not difficult to implement but to me wasn't justified.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you provide more info what router, what features and from where info?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of the linksys routers that was advertised to support it, but the radio firmware was not officially supported and I had a lot of wireless connection issues so I replaced it.

Info from official openwrt website.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Mediatek? Certanly not Atheros. What model?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://openwrt.org/inbox/toh/asus/asus_rt-ac3200_r2.34

It says in bold red not supported. Not surprising for Broadcom.

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/porting-asus-rt-ac3200-my-experience/65643

Seems what you said. Broadcom wifi chip code.

https://openwrt.org/meta/infobox/broadcom_wifi

DD-WRT has a license agreement and NDA in place with Broadcom that allow usage of better, proprietary, closed source wireless drivers (binary blobs) which they are not allowed to redistribute freely.

Broadcom has not released any FOSS drivers. Broadcom doesn’t support open-source much at all.

Basically bcm doesn't want people to use opensource.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it was some bullshit because the router is advertised as running WRT and there is an image for it, but that stupid radio chip fucked it all up.