OpenWrt support for Tenda AC6 (AC1200)

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Hi all,

I see in list support hardware, openwrt support tenda ac9 https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/tenda/tenda_ac9 with chipset broadcom bcm53xx

Now I'm finding openwrt firmware for Tenda ac6 use chip broadcom BCM53573B0 https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Tenda_AC6

Can you give me a tutorial to build openwrt firmware for Tenda AC6 ? Thanks you so much.

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It should not be hard as SoC is upstream supported.
But you should know that only B43 driver supports the radios

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So i have this Tenda Ac6 it has decent hardware 8MB rom 64MB ram with the broadcom 53573b0 SoC i want to setup openwrt so bad on it I hope someone could guide me as broadcom chipsets seems supported overall but this one is no where to be found, i can provide any data you as i am an electronics guy i can provide flash dumps if necessary, thanks for any help

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I think your device has a BCM5357 SoC (B0 is probably a revision)? There's a few devices supported by OpenWrt, none have functional wireless though it seems.

The target you need to look at, if you would like to introduce support, is brcm47xx.

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This is a different chip than the one you mentioned it is the BCM53573 which is a dual band 2x2 and a 900Mhz cpu

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Edit: never mind me. I see now that yours has an extra digit indeed.

Sorry!

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yea they are totally different the first one is just a 300Mhz 1x1 wireless n.

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Anyone manage to get it working on the Tenda AC6 (AC1200). I'd really like to be able to use OpenWrt instead of the crap firmware it comes with.

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Still no support for Tenda AC6 ? Hrm was there a specific reason development stalled on this?

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Yes: Broadcom WiFi is not supported.

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