Hi everyone,
I am new to the forum and hope you can point me in the right direction.
I own some D-Link DWL-8610ap and the flashing with the openwrt firmware went flawlessly. However I then found out that the 5Ghz wifi does not work and it is the same problem described here:
(Fun fact: with 24.10.0 the 2.4Ghz works, with everything lower and higher, I tried 23.05.5 and 24.10.1, it did not)
Now I would like to try some other driver or investigate further in order to help developers patch the problem. Do you have any ideas or advice for me what to do? And if that is the wrong place to post please feel free to put it wherever you think it fits.
Thanks a lot.
Remove Openwrt firmware bcm package and combine missing/requested fw files from linux-firmware, raspbian, aosp repos. Some succeeded, though might be a futile passtime.
There is no different driver for this hardware (BCM4360), b43 with HT/ VHT support (so limited to 54 MBit/s (<20 MBit/s in practice) and very basic chipset support) is all you get. Playing with different binary firmwares won't change the situation.
It's a softmac device, so brcmfmac doesn't apply - and brcmsmac deliberately doesn't support BCM4360 (you may thank Broadcom for that).
broadcom-wl isn't supported by OpenWrt anymore, and it only ever existed for mips (e.g. bcm47xx) - not ARMv7 (bcm53xx), as used here.
So no, this device will never work properly, if you want to use OpenWrt, you will need a different AP.
Thank you all for your answers I have tried to follow all of your hints and explanations and at the end I think I am with you and will try to find a better suited device.
Thanks again for helping an inexperienced guy.