Enabling Wifi - Menu does not exist

[timholmes]

I am so confused. I just installed OpenWRT and am able to access the UI. Instruction here: https://openwrt.org/faq/how_do_i_enable_wifi. say to go to network -> wireless. What do I do if that doesn't even show as a option? Based on the instructions, if I have LuCI it should show up?

My version - OpenWrt 23.05.0 (r23497-6637af95aa

[desertjammer]

What is the make and model of the router?

[timholmes]

It is the Netgear R7000.

I think I seem them as interfaces WAN and WAN6 but those are red colored.

[desertjammer]

AFAIK unfortunately WiFi will not work on that one, it has Broadcom SoC. Some more info here:

• [OpenWrt Wiki] Broadcom wireless
• [OpenWrt Wiki] NETGEAR R7000 Nighthawk

[dannil]

Netgear R7000 or Netgear R6400

There are two types of technically different Broadcom wireless chipset families: softmac: here there is only a smaller firmware and most of the functionality is in the driver. While this strategy is preferred by the mainline kernel (mac80211 is a software wireless stack for softmac devices, providing generic functionality for the individual (small-) hardware specific drivers), there are no drivers for this kind of hardware (well, b43 covering 802.11b/g and very limited limp-home-mode for newe…

[timholmes]

Bummer... thanks for clarifying.

[timholmes]

Thanks all for the help. You saved me a bunch of time and now I am back at the OEM software.