RTL8188FTV support in OpenWRT

For Developers
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I have recently purchased the WYSE 3040 Dell 2Gb ddr3 ram and 8Gb emmc storage.

I flashed the Openwrt image from https://github.com/Manssizz/wyse3040-openwrt/releases/tag/2024.09.03-1347, works well except wifi card.

I have an wifi dongle Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188FTV 802.11b/g/n 1T1R 2.4G WLAN Adapter but even the 23.05 OWRT din't support this device.

I have an SDIO AW-CM389A card with in 3040. I like to compile the driver with Openwrt 23.05 ( if possible 24.10 has advantage) for both USB and SDIO card.

I have followed the steps provided by Manssizz in github, but I am confused where to place driver file and how to create a manuconfig.

I tried wrong compile many times but each takes 2 hours like that,, Is there any way to cross compile only the drivers and install it in openwrt with same kernal version.

Please Guid me to make the build that support both usb and SDIO card. Thanks in Advance

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We'd be confused too, you'll have to ask Manssizz.

Or switch to vanilla Openwrt.

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I understand your point, I tried to take vanilla build yesterday. But still I am not clear how to do add new driver in openwrt kernel.

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https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/packages#creating_packages_for_kernel_modules

Are you sure the driver will support AP mode, if that's what you're going for ?
Most RTL hw doesn't ...

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I am sure RTL won;t support for AP, but STA should work right!.

But for SDIO AW-CM389A card It support both STA and AP.( because i have booted Ubuntu 24.04 and Mint on it. It worked perfectly without any additional driver)
I am wondering why drivers supported by most of the linux distros are not supported in Openwrt.

Linux kernels are common for all those system right!

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error: failed to write to /workdir/openwrt/build_dir/target-x86_64_musl/shadowsocks-rust-1.22.0/target/release/deps/rmeta5XUDMO/lib.rmeta: No space left on device (os error 28)

How much space is neede to take an complete build for 23.05?
I am out of space in my VM which has 20GB free.

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RTL8188FTV is supported by Linux 6.4 and later. OpenWrt 24.10.0's Linux version is 6.6 so it supports the card but not 23.05 which is based on Linux 5.15. You will need rtl8188fu-firmware and kmod-rtl8xxxu packages for the card and one of wpad packages for wpasupplicant. (I used wpad-mini in my PogoE02 installation.)