It seems like the only hardware it supports ath9k and mt76 chipsets which can only do 802.11n
This appears to be a project that is leveraging OpenWrt for their development work, but not actually integrated into the mainline OpenWrt environment, so it would probably make sense to reach out to the authors of that document as they will have much more information than users on this forum.
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Mind to peek at the year on documents?
Well, the bufferbloat community (originally cerowrt initiative) are/were people interested in network efficiency development. They created SQM in cerowrt, first using the fq-codel qdisc and later the cake qdisc. Also flent to better test latency etc.
That happened 2011-2016. In 2014 I imported SQM from cerowrt with https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/433 and 2016 I imported the cake qdisc and iproute2/tc modifications from cerowrt to the main OpenWrt https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/23147dd43ac0835cc9077819c32a101dee42461d . Later the cake qdisc has been taken into the main Linux kernel repo.
That was time when ADSL, cable modems etc. were main ISP connectivity, and speeds in general were much lower than now. WiFi had been just 2.4 + 5 GHz ac. Wireless connections were still pretty slow and the protocols were not really optimizing congestion. Make-wifi-fast originates from that time. Later the wifi6 and wifi7 have incorporated some of congestion control ideas into the hardware protocols themselves, making a separate development project unnecessary.
I think that make-wifi-fast was mainly promoted by Dave Täht, who actually died recently, so yes, the make-wifi-fast project might be dead.
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You should check out the mailing list, Some of them are still active
(EDIT: Just read some I don't think its active anymore)
I will just leave this here
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