OpenWrt support for Linksys MX8500

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Do you have anything in logs?

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So I guess my PC/Laptop/Pixel can still get the signal and connect. However, this is not the case for my other OnePlus (unless I turn off WiFi and turn it back on it).

My PC is MTK RZ616 (MT7922)
Laptop is Qcom FastConnect 6900 (WCN685x-5)
Pixel is BRCM BCM4389 (I believe, cannot find more info).
OnePlus is the same Qcom FastConnect 6900 according to Qcom spec (8+G1) whereas the kernel module is QCA6490.

Nothing useful in log bcuz I have DAWN installed and it kept spamming debug messages I cannot turn off and overnight it just overrides logs from the night before.

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This could indicate a client-side problem. But without logs we can only guess...

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Anyone tried the release 24.10.0 build on MX8500? Please share your experience.

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There is currently a problem with NAND detection: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/17900
If you haven't installed it, it's better to wait for a backport until 24.10.

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Thanks @lytr. Looks like dynalink-dl-wrx36 is also affected. The plan for me was to use MX8500 as the master and dynalink-dl-wrx36 as child for my mesh setup.

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@rajenk I misled you. The problem occurs on the main branch and not on 24.10 :slight_smile:

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24.10 is nearly perfect for me. There are occasional "ath11k c000000.wifi: failed to flush transmit queue" errors, but doesn't seem to affect anything.

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It seems harmless, but it will eventually crash wifi and a reboot will be required when it does

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Crazy deal but I'm not sure if it's enough to justify getting it

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I saw that too. I bought a bunch of MX4300 when they were on fire sale. My only gripe with them was they don’t have 6Ghz. This fits the bill but I don’t see NSS build for this router? And it has half the ram so given how memory hungry ath11k is…

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i have 7 4300s and 3 5500.
i also hav another mr7500 which is basically a cut down version of 8500 with the same 5Gb wan and qcn9074, nss build is easy to do and mr7500 had 512MB it works just fine with nss

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Great sale! One of the nice things about the MX8500 is that it has fully functional Bluetooth. It's possible that you could even run a Thread Boarder Router (but I haven't tested that).

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Do you use hardwire backhaul? Tempted to get this, but I have 5 MX4300 with hybrid wired/wireless (5GHz DFS channel) backhaul. This doesn't support DFS channel so I'll have to downgrade to non-DFS wireless channel.
Also it seems there is an NNS build by @AgustinLorenzo

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i also had a combo of wired/wireless

wireless doesnt work gr8 in my place cuz its an 100 yrs old house with THICC walls and floors

if i end up getting this it would replace the 4300s on wired and put those in more scattered rooms where ethernet cannot reach to improve coverage.

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in OpenWrt?

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Yes, there is already a package created for this: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/net/openthread-br
This requires preparing and updating another firmware to the Bluetooth module: https://github.com/openthread/ot-nxp/blob/main/src/k32w0/k32w061/README.md

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Great.

This one could be considered as WIP?

Another router with supportable zigbee/matter over thread chip.

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The same Bluetooth chip is used in MX4200v1/v2.

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EFR32MG21 is a zigbee/matter/BLE radio.

it is used in SLZB-06M, Sonoff Dongle - E, homeassitant ZBT-1 and few generic zigbee coordinators.

So Opensoruce support is really good. Just need to enable it's usage in Openwrt.

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