Greetings everyone, I hope you are well, someone has used openwrt on a PC, could you recommend 1 or 2 WI-FI 6 PCI-e cards that are 100% compatible, I am working on a project but I got a WI-FI 4 of 150 Mbps and it's very slow, I want something faster, but I haven't been able to find a compatible model. I have a rtl8192ee and it is not compatible, thanks for everything.
And will you know of compatible models for PCI-e 1x? I have a 150 Mbps one but it is already very slow.
As in a full-sized PCIe? I don't know of any. There may be some, I have just never run across them. For the most part vendors that make WiFi cards that work in AP mode make them for router boards which don't usually have full-sized PCIe slots.
My recommendation is to get a PCIe x1 to mPCIe adapter and then use an mpcie card.
EDIT: My apologies for misreading your original post.
I currently use a PC as a router and I have a PCI-e 1x card, it is from an ATX motherboard, but it is 150Mbps, I have a separate PCI-e 1x r8192ee WI-FI card but I cannot get it to be recognized by the system, I can't get the compatible driver package, that's my problem
Strange. Code for that card seems to be in the Linux kernel, as can be seen here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?h=v6.3-rc5&qt=grep&q=RTL8192EE. So in theory, if you run a linux operating system, it should be compatible, but maybe there are serious performance problems? Found following statement in Lwfinger's repository:
Repository for the stand-alone RTL8192EE driver.
May offer much better performance than the kernel rtl8192ee driver, especially when used as Access Point.
Still, it will, with difficulty, barely surpass 50Mbps of uplink, in the best conditions.
In general, Realtek unfortunately only provides out of kernel drivers for Linux wireless and sometimes somebody makes an effort to make them compatible and commit them into the Linux kernel with varying degree of success. Since OpenWrt is based on the Linux kernel, it will all end up in OpenWrt eventually...
Anyway, since this is a 802.11bgn 2.4G capable device only, unless you run it with 40 MHz channel bandwidth, it will not exceed 150 Mbps anyway, so indeed, you are probably better off looking for alternative hardware.
Hi byc0d3
I have been using OpenWRT 22.03.03 on a router that I added a USB WiFi adapter with a mt7921au chipset. It uses the mt7921u driver. To load the driver and firmware in 22.03.03, install kmod-mt7921u. The are full size and small cards with the mt7921k chipset and those use the kmod-mt7921e driver. I have found the mt7921x drivers to be fast and stable. I use them in WiFi 4 mode, WiFi 5 mode and WiFi 6 mode. Even thought the mt7921au and k chipsets are capable of WiFi 6e (6 GHz band), OpenWRT 22.03 is not yet ready for that.
Mt github site has a lot of information and even threads where users are discussing similar issue. Just look Issues: