arinc9
July 20, 2021, 4:46am
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I pushed a PR to openwrt-21.02 trunk to downgrade the firmware to 9.3.2.6. Affected devices are Linksys WRT3200ACM & WRT32X. It'd be really helpful to get the PR merged if more people can confirm 9.3.2.6 solves the Wi-Fi cut-out issue.
openwrt:openwrt-21.02
← arinc9:mwlwifi-test
opened 04:01AM - 20 Jul 21 UTC
I've mailed a patch to openwrt-devel instead.
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/proj… ect/openwrt/patch/20210722165406.1708-1-arinc.unal@gmail.com/
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Avoid 88W8964 firmware 9.3.2.12 for Wi-Fi instabilities it causes on Linksys WRT3200ACM & WRT32X until fixes on master branch are backported to openwrt-21.02
A lot of users, me included, with Linksys WRT32X & WRT3200ACM devices experience often Wi-Fi cutouts on OpenWrt 21.02.0-rc3.
Here are people who had issues with 9.3.2.12 on WRT3200ACM. They no longer have the issue after installing OpenWrt 19.07 (which uses 9.3.2.6 firmware).
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/pre-compiled-updated-mwlwifi-drivers-for-stable-releases/3262/682
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/pre-compiled-updated-mwlwifi-drivers-for-stable-releases/3262/688
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/connectivity-issues-with-wifi/79003
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/users-needed-to-test-wi-fi-stability-on-linksys-wrt3200acm-wrt32x-on-openwrt-21-02-0-rc3/101700/2
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/users-needed-to-test-wi-fi-stability-on-linksys-wrt3200acm-wrt32x-on-openwrt-21-02-0-rc3/101700/14
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/users-needed-to-test-wi-fi-stability-on-linksys-wrt3200acm-wrt32x-on-openwrt-21-02-0-rc3/101700/16
I can confirm downgrading to 9.3.2.6 fixed the Wi-Fi cut-outs on my WRT32X.
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/users-needed-to-test-wi-fi-stability-on-linksys-wrt3200acm-wrt32x-on-openwrt-21-02-0-rc3/101700
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This pull request uses the previous commit of mwlwifi repository used on OpenWrt 21.02 trunk, which 9.3.2.6 is used and the firmware works on Linux Kernel 5.3+.
Signed-off-by: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@gmail.com>
Get the prebuilt image and track the issue here:
Update in November 2021: The issue is finally fixed on upstream and OpenWrt master & 21.02 branches!
The forthcoming OpenWrt 21.02.2 release includes the fix by @nbd .
Huge thanks to @adworacz & @WildByDesign for spending weeks testing and pinpointing the issue to the 5.8 backports.
Get the OpenWrt 21.02.2 images which include the fix:
WRT3200ACM
WRT32X
Get the OpenWrt master snapshot images which include the fix:
WRT3200ACM
WRT32X
Information About the Issue
I use Linksys WRT32X…
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