Driver for WLAN USB stick Realtek RTL8188FTV on OpenWrt

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I have this Wlan-USB Stick

Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0bda:f179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188FTV 802.11b/g/n 1T1R 2.4G WLAN Adapter

With Debian 11 I can build the Driver from
https://github.com/kelebek333/rtl8188fu

Is it possible to build it for OpenWRT?

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how much time are you willing to spend ?

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Its weekend ... I have a lots of time, why?

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You will need to add it as a kmod package to the openwrt build root source

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Oh, I never did that ...

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Chances if being able to use this device/ driver in AP at all are somewhere between minimal and non-existent.

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mhmmmm ... but anybody knows a WLAN-USB Stick witch long range ( with long antenna ), is supported by openWRT? Witch I can buy one at ebay?

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dunno about ebay, but these work well https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi, all/most are MT based.

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Ahhhhh, thanx ... But I will try to use RTL8188FTV based chipset ... Is there a tutorial to build kmod in the OpenWRT source tree?

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https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/toolchain/use-buildsystem I guess.

but as @slh already said, AP mode probably won't work, might not be a problem for you though.

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I dont need the AP mode. It should be a second wirless connection to an other wlan router as a client.

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Possibly relevant reading as to why the module has stopped loading (non-OpenWRT, but still Linux kernel flags).

https://bkhome.org/news/202208/kernel-now-51560-with-rtlxxxu-driver.html

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The RTLXXXU driver doesnt work for me.