On my main router WRT3200ACM I have 19.07.10 and I have an extra WRT1900AC which I tested with the latest snapshot and the wifi was unreliable so I went back to WRT3200ACM.
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When you say you tested the latest snapshot, do you mean the branch snapshot in the last few days? I see that you last posted here on May 5th that you tested the snapshot back then, but some bug fixes came in after that. It's going to be pretty important to report this as a new bug and provide logs and more details on how to reproduce it if you, in fact, just tested the 23.05 branch snapshot in the last week or two.
For reference, @jbrossard mentioned a month ago in this thread that even 21.x worked just fine for him on his WRT1900ACS, so devs are going to need to have more details than "wifi was unreliable".
No I have not tested anything in the last few days, only on May 5th. I read about some bug fixes but I haven't tested anything since then.
I built 23.05 once which I am testing on one of my routers, but after today's update, builds fail with libcurl dependency not found. So now I erased everything and I started over with a git clone because sometimes that fixed the dependency issue. It is quite annoying that hours and hours of previous builds had to be discarded as I had already built tools and firmware for several architectures.
FYI, 23.05.0-rc1 is available: https://openwrt.org/releases/23.05/notes-23.05.0-rc1
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Has anyone here put in much time testing that latest (2023-04-29-6a436714) mwlwifi driver that has been a master snapshots for about two months now?
The reason why I ask is because I am still on a previous master snapshot with the longer tested (2020-02-06-a2fd00bb) mwlwifi driver and have 55+ days uptime and it's rock solid.
Also, I noticed that 23.05.0-rc1 has that latest (2023-04-29-6a436714) mwlwifi driver and I am a bit hesitant to upgrade yet. I recall that DivestedWRT downgraded it to the older driver. I've seen more negative stuff about that latest driver in comparison to the older driver. I don't think that I've read much positive things, unfortunately.
So I'm just trying to if anyone has more positive things to say about the newer driver particularly regarding stability and performance.
On a side note, I know that Github user "jbsky" has still been working on the mwlwifi driver almost daily on some testing branches. Quite often 25-30 commits ahead of mwlwifi master repo and still tweaking and testing. I think that is great that a developer with those skills has stepped up to tackle this driver after it being abandoned. I'm assuming that he will do another pull request once he's confident with the additional changes. I am really excited about this renewed development.
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I've looked at the DivestedWRT thread before. I just skimmed through it regarding recent posts mentioning the mwlwifi driver, but I didn't go all the way back. The thing is, there was that mwlwifi driver disconnection issue fix at the end of April that went in as a PR on May 6th. And I believe at least one guy on there was saying he was having problems with it, but then realized he'd made a mistake with his configuration. People really need to test it themselves and not rely on others who might bring mistaken test results. 
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Good point. Maybe I will give it a shot later tonight anyway. The good thing is that we’ve always got the alternate partition on these devices in case something goes sideways.
I decided to go ahead and perform a regular sysupgrage from SNAPSHOT r21807 to 23.05.0-rc1. I have an uptime of 2 days and 10 hours so far and have experienced zero issues.
Wifi performance between the two builds seems basically identical. Also essentially the same as with 22.03.x builds. Fast speeds with no issues so far.
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Hello everyone,
And thank you for testing mwlwifi in stable version.
Today, I need 1 tester for the 8986 chipset(WRT32...)
You should check the next branch, especially this SHA1 cb0c0cc2e7560671dbdaec7b6438f0c80f007ac2. I tried to improve the interoperability between the MAC80211 layer and the driver layer at the encryption level.
I got a 1st feedback on an old commit. Today, I'd like to see if there's still a regression.
You can contact me by e-mail or via this forum or a new one dedicated to one-shot testing.
Thank you in advance,
Best regards,
Jbs
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On my WRT3200ACM adding a guest wifi on 2ghz disabled the radio completely. I am using 23.05.0-rc1 and went back to 19.07.10 since I needed all the wifi devices to connect to the router.
I would be willing to test on my WRT3200. The only problem is that I don’t have a build environment or experience compiling OpenWrt.
If anyone can provide images for testing then I am happy to test.
By the way, thank you for all of the work that you have been going for mwlwifi. Your time is very much appreciated.
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I can take a look at building some packages - thanks to jbsky for the docs too! I am going to see how painful this is to do in GitHub actions to see if we can spin out packages for lots of machines and tighten the feedback loop here.
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Excellent, that would be fantastic. If you could build the driver packages to match kernel version from 23.05.0-rc1, that would be ideal. It’s close enough feature-wise with snapshots.
I'm set up in Github to build mwlwifi packages for WRT32X for 23.05.0-rc1 right now. I built the previous mwlwifi version from 2020 just in case I ran into issues with the new version. I'm using the OpenWRT SDK and it takes about an hour to build the mwlwifi packages. I have it building ipks for arm_cortex-a9_vfpv3-d16. I think those could be used with the WRT3200ACM. I can try setting it up to build from jbsky's branches too. Here's my workflow if you want to see how I did it:
Edit: It takes about half an hour to build now with an edit to the workflow from @dgilman.
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This is really handy. Especially if there are more changes to test soon.
Please find the link to the compiled package, normally it should work.
SHA1 > dad7f70
@WildByDesign it's a simple test, you see if the machines connect and you manage to go on the internet via your wifi.
Attention, this is exclusively for the stable version 22.03 of openwrt, is this your version?
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I can test this on 22.03.2 tonight, absolutely. I will post details when I get started in a few hours from now.
I got it built for 23.05.0-rc1 after updating the 005 patch. I won't be able to test it until a few hours from now when I'll be able to take down my router.
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I ended up losing wifi for about an hour after installing the updated driver. However, I'm not certain whether it was the driver or my config that cause this. I will have to revisit this tomorrow with a more clear mind.
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