Support for ASUS RT-AX52 PRO (sucessful)

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It was a succesful experiment. Done in 5 minutes.
I bought two of them, and flashed them with AX52. This is a very cheap device with medium bulky MT7981 CPU.
Difference between AX52 is the Wi-Fi, but since they both are MT7981 we don't have to worry about anything, driver figures itself out.
Flash layout etc. are all the same. ASUS is lazy, they won't be doing a new design just for the sake of it :slight_smile:
I just had to create a new topic because the topic wasn't mine and it was confusing to see if it was supported or not between a lot of messages there

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Can you get ubus call system board and iwinfo (set wifi MAC to random to keep PII painted over) showing AX52 and functional 160MHz?

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I will as soon as I have time, but I have seen with my own eyes that 160MHz is functional

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root@OpenWrt:~# ubus call system board
{
	"kernel": "6.12.71",
	"hostname": "OpenWrt",
	"system": "ARMv8 Processor rev 4",
	"model": "ASUS RT-AX52",
	"board_name": "asus,rt-ax52",
	"rootfs_type": "squashfs",
	"release": {
		"distribution": "OpenWrt",
		"version": "SNAPSHOT",
		"firmware_url": "https://downloads.openwrt.org/",
		"revision": "r33101+1-313d563664",
		"target": "mediatek/filogic",
		"description": "OpenWrt SNAPSHOT r33101+1-313d563664",
		"builddate": "1771242522"
	}
}
root@OpenWrt:~#  iwinfo
phy0-ap0 ESSID: "OpenWrt_2.4GHz"
         Access Point: mac_Address
         Mode: Master  Channel: 13 (2.472 GHz)  HT Mode: HT20
         Center Channel 1: 13 2: unknown
         Tx-Power: 20 dBm  Link Quality: 70/70
         Signal: 0 dBm  Noise: -92 dBm
         Bit Rate: unknown
         Encryption: WPA-PSK (CCMP)
         Type: nl80211  HW Mode(s): 802.11ax/n/g/b
         Hardware: embedded [MediaTek MT7981]
         TX power offset: none
         Channel offset: none
         Supports VAPs: yes  PHY name: phy0

phy1-ap0 ESSID: "OpenWrt_5GHz"
         Access Point: mac_Address
         Mode: Master  Channel: 40 (5.200 GHz)  HT Mode: HE80
         Center Channel 1: 42 2: unknown
         Tx-Power: 23 dBm  Link Quality: 70/70
         Signal: 0 dBm  Noise: -92 dBm
         Bit Rate: unknown
         Encryption: WPA-PSK (CCMP)
         Type: nl80211  HW Mode(s): 802.11ax/ac/n
         Hardware: embedded [MediaTek MT7981]
         TX power offset: none
         Channel offset: none
         Supports VAPs: yes  PHY name: phy1

root@OpenWrt:~#

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On a side note, I know you said on the interface it says AX52 and that is normal. But I think, on the interface it should of said AX52 PRO instead. Imagine if somehow the label of the router is teared or lost. And then you would forgot what your device was. That's just small criticism, I think it should be this way instead.

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eg https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=24.10.5&target=ramips%2Fmt7621&id=asus_rt-ax54 all 4 variants say ax54 in UI, that is normal.

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