Realtek Rtl8187 package on 24.10.1 release

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hi Team
I bought a new wifi adapter's chip RTL8187L, after making some researsh the ipk package of the driver was stopped on OpenWrt 22.03.7 realase for bcm6368 mips which is ( kmod-rtl8187_5.10.221+5.15.162-1-1_mips_mips32.ipk ).
Is it possible to add the ipk kmod-rtl8187 to the last release OpenWrt 24.10.1 on bcm6368 mips?

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wasn't able to buy anything older ? that thing's only 20 y.o ...

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rtl8187 is unusable for AP mode anyways:

        Supported interface modes:
                 * IBSS
                 * managed
                 * monitor

…these are not the droids you are looking for.

Should you still care about kmod-rtl8187, packaging it up as part of mac80211 should be relatively straight forward, but it doesn't change the fact that this ancient hardware is barely useful.

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Frollic thanks for replying,
So in these case, what are the wifi adapters that are recommended for using it on openwrt in order to receive a good wifi internet from neighbors and share it by an openwrt routers at home. Adapters that can assure to you a good internet traffic?

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Very enough
Thanks

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After giving some time on reading the article I go to that Mt7921u is a good choice for linux as edup ep-ax1672.

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To be fair, there is no USB WLAN card that can be considered 'good' for AP mode, there are just less bad ones. Yes, mt7921au is amount the least-bad ones, but it's still a client-oriented WLAN chipset, with conceptionally a very limited amounted of connected clients (limited on-device RAM) - and then there are still the model specific questions (overheating, antenna quality/ distance, etc.). On top of that you can only get a single band/ channel out of a single radio, while one would usually expect concurrent dual-band these days (and wifi 6 also improves the 2.4 GHz operations, compared to the old 802.11g days).

In almost all cases it's more sensible (and not necessarily more expensive) to get a cheap concurrent-dualband wifi 6 AP (mt7621a+mt7915DBDC or better) instead.

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Thanks slh i got you.
Actually i am confused on what wifi adapter is suitable for bcm63xx which runs 5.15 kernel.

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IIRC, mt7921au needs (at least) something roughly around v6.2/ v6.3. (I might be slightly off, but somewhere in that ballpark).

I'd really look at a cheap'ish and well supported wifi6 device, instead of trying to retrofit USB WLAN to a bcm63xx/ bmips device - the price won't be that much higher, and you profit from a lot of other improvements in addition (even mt7621a should easily beat bcm6368, but filogic 830/ 820, ipq807x/ ipq60xx/ ipq50xx are also available (roughly in descending order). A while ago, dap-x1860/ covr-x1860/ wsm20 were selling for ~15 EUR, I'm not totally up to date on the entry level prices right now, but t-56 is around 40 EUR plus shipping (and that's pretty high-end already), ax3000t (which I explicitly won't recommend anymore, due to number of different h/w revisions, especially the latest ones) was around 26 EUR, hard to beat that…
…and yes, there's always the second hand market (which adds ipq806x, ipq40xx, mt7622 to the mix) to consider as well.

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Yes, base kernel <> backports, so 23.05.x might do…

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