Netgear R7500v1 5GHz support

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I, too, am looking at this issue. I'm taking a jump over to the qfn pages.

References:

  1. More work to do : Large flash and qtnfmac driver for R7500v1
  2. Kernel Driver development thread : https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg186451.html
  • ( summary: not ready yet )
  1. Problems with firmware -- https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg192619.html -- seems that the company was acquired and this was placed on lower priorty.
  2. Remaining work ( nearly done) : https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg179132.html
  3. Support added for PCIE Topaz devices ! ( https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg179134.html )

Further hardware details:

root@OpenWrt:~# opkg update
..
root@OpenWrt:~# opkg install pciutils
..
root@OpenWrt:~# lspci
0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Qualcomm Device 0101
0000:01:00.0 Network controller: Quantenna Communications, Inc. Device 0008 (rev 01)
0001:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Qualcomm Device 0101
0001:01:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA986x/988x 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter