@eduperez The latest driver build from today is working fantastic as always. I've been running it since it hit my RSS feeds approximately 5-10 minutes after you uploaded it to Github. I've got around 6 hours or so of uptime right now and have not experienced any issues.
When 18.06 goes stable, are you going to compile just for 18.06 or would you compile for both (17.x and 18x)?
Now it only takes me five minutes to compile, upload, and announce each new release. When 18.06 comes out, I would not mind doing two releases in parallel.
Just tried the new driver it works but I have found the new driver doesn't seem to support MCS 8 thu 15 so only achieves 135Mb on older 5ghz chipsets that support 300Mbps
Rolled back to not last driver but driver before (I had it to hand) and that seems to support the higher speed MCS Values.
The 88W8997 appears to be an older chip (not hot off the press) targeted at low power consumption. It is a wave 2 AC device, but only has 2x2 mu-MIMO.
I only found one product containing it, which was an M.2 connectorised wlan card
AzureWave AW-CM308NF
For future, the exciting one to watch for is 88W9064, which is of the same family for the WRT series chips, but will be 802.11ax capable, and has “zero wait” DFS, whatever that means.
My mistake, sorry... I saw that bug report, exactly the same as you reported here, and misread that someone called BrainSlayer had opened it; now I see it was you, I need more coffee.
Yes, I have everything ready, was just waiting for the official announcement. I am currently traveling, will do it as soon as I get back to my computer.
However, the version included in the most recent snapshot (and I guess that on RC too) tends to be fairy updated, so probably there is no reason to rush.
Unfortunately, RC1 is failing to build for me: there is some patch for usbip that gets rejected, and the whole process halts; I'm currently investigating the issue.
I just dissabled usbip completely, and it finished building, thanks. But it does not seem to be creating all the firmware packages (in 18.06.0, firmware files go into separate packages), and I am looking into it.
WRT3200 in /tmp # opkg install kmod-mwlwifi_4.14.50.10.3.8.0-20180615-c2f82f1a-1_arm_cortex-a9_vfpv3.ipk mwlwifi-firmware-88w8964_10.3.8.0-20180615-c2f82f1a-1_arm_cortex-a9_vfpv3.ipk --force-downgrade
Downgrading kmod-mwlwifi on root from 4.14.50+2018-03-30-fcaea79a-1 to 4.14.50+10.3.8.0-20180615-c2f82f1a-1...
Downgrading mwlwifi-firmware-88w8964 on root from 2018-03-30-fcaea79a-1 to 10.3.8.0-20180615-c2f82f1a-1...
Configuring kmod-mwlwifi.
Configuring mwlwifi-firmware-88w8964.
WRT3200 in /tmp # wifi
'radio2' is disabled
'radio2' is disabled
WRT3200 in /tmp #
Both active radios came up and seem to be working well. I've only just installed them tho.
These latest drivers are working absolutely great here now on 18.06 RC1. Thank you so much for your time and effort in sharing these, much appreciated. I will continue running some more tests but so far my initial testing is very positive.