Belkin RT3200/Linksys E8450 WiFi AX discussion

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Thanks. I managed to upgrade from 22.03.5 to 23.05 0 using LuCi attended sysupgrade based on the posts here and this helpful post here:

OpenWrt 23.05.0-rc4 - Fourth Release Candidate

Another Linksys E8450 (UBI): attempted an attended sysupgrade from 22.03.5, replacing the old variant of wpad with wpad-mbedtls but otherwise preserving the list of packages. Result: no WiFi. Upon inspection, the reason why WiFi failed was the missing WiFi firmware. The old version had the kmod-mt7615-firmware package, which contained the ROM patches for both mt7615 and mt7622, while in the new version, the mt7622 firmware has been moved to a separate kmod-mt7622-firmware package. Similarly, th…