It's just great how well you claim know me, again…
Please tell that to my tl-wr821n v1 (ar9170) and tl-wr721n v1 (ar9271), I have used them as third radio and AP interface on a tl-wdr3600 (tl-wdr4300 respectively) for about 2 years each. Results were basically functional, but unreliable, with sometimes huge latencies and a tendency to overheat - the cheapest AHB/ PCI(e) based ath9k card however works fine in those conditions (even back to the dreaded/ buggy AR5008 or AR9102).
funny how you suggest the newest ipq soc to others but are stuck on some obsolete soc...
this is what works for me, self built image on an average soc:
I think @slh might refrain from getting into this, but I must address the obvious flaw in your argument.
When someone asks for an advice to buy a new device, it makes perfect sense to recommend a device that comfortably meet their requirements and have some degree of future proofing.
Giving this recommendation, however, doesn't mean that we throw away the existing devices we already have of they do the job.
I have a C7 here and it's working alright, but I don't recommend buying it now because there are more capable devices in the same, or similar, price range. (And by the way this is just an example--just saying before you make a thing of it).
yeah, and their next post is about complains that it cannot reach half of the gigabit speed and are buying another one.
that are really perfect sense recommendations...
Does it show up in Luci?
The built in Broadcom doesn't and it doesn't keep an AP for more than a few seconds (no error, just slow loss of signal).
I tried Realtek 8812bu ones but I couldn't get it to work.
I tried a Realtek 8812au but I can only scan (I got the AP to work on my x86_64 machine with wpa_supplicant but not hostapd).
There seems to be a newer driver for it but I haven't figure out oh the get it over to openwrt yet.
I don't think Luci will ever support it.
I am willing to try an N adapter as long as it supports an external antenna and is 5GHz.
Is that in OpenWrt or another Linux distribution? Another thing, what adapter do you have to have to use rtl8812au? I have an Archer T4UHP and I cannot even scan Wi-Fi networks.
I got rid of my Realtek stuff and switched to a Mediatek 7612u.
I was using lubuntu.
It was a Netis WF2190 that is rtl8812au (the bu adapters I had were all generic).
Under OpenWrt?
Do you get an error?
Are you trying from the command line?
I use this driver as you mentioned and it works perfectly on Linux distros like Ubuntu and derivatives. But when I connect it to a router (in my case an x86 test laptop) with OpenWrt, it doesn't work. It appears in LuCI but I cannot scan networks or create an AP. Of course I installed kmod-rtl8812au-ct.
The first command does not work. It says -ash: iwlist: not found
What do I have to wait for in the second command?
On OpenWrt rtl8812au only work on some devices building a custom image with this changes:rtl8812AU and/or rtl8814AU drivers
Working on OpenWrt x86 19.07.2 with this modification:
openwrt$ git status
HEAD detached at v19.07.2
Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
modified: package/kernel/mac80211/files/lib/netifd/wireless/mac80211.sh
modified: package/kernel/rtl8812au-ct/Makefile
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
openwrt$ git diff
diff --git a/package/kernel/mac80211/files/lib/netifd/wireless/mac80211.sh b/package/kernel/mac80211/files/lib/netifd/wireless/mac80211.sh
index 634aadcee9..57808f614c 100644
--- a/package/kernel/mac80211/files/lib/netifd/wireless/mac80211.sh
+++ b/package/kernel/mac80211/files/lib/netifd/wireless/mac80211.sh
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ mac80211_interface_cleanup() {
for wdev in $(list_phy_interfaces "$phy"); do
ip link set dev "$wdev" down 2>/dev/null
- iw dev "$wdev" del
+ #iw dev "$wdev" del
done
}
diff --git a/package/kernel/rtl8812au-ct/Makefile b/package/kernel/rtl8812au-ct/Makefile
index 5c70dbd1e7..db3016dd19 100644
--- a/package/kernel/rtl8812au-ct/Makefile
+++ b/package/kernel/rtl8812au-ct/Makefile
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ PKG_LICENSE:=GPLv2
PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=
PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://github.com/greearb/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux.git
-PKG_MIRROR_HASH:=42b32c56cf31bdf3c9cd4e304c9aac761b623c8737d8c57518117acdc5a84cfe
+PKG_MIRROR_HASH:=fa689e034cad9e4683ea784b8f3cb590492ab5c68e8babd492a4e8bf2de3b114
PKG_SOURCE_PROTO:=git
-PKG_SOURCE_DATE:=2018-11-16
-PKG_SOURCE_VERSION:=661268fd174d4a74834c82d7d3987b0a560e6c57
+PKG_SOURCE_DATE:=2020-01-12
+PKG_SOURCE_VERSION:=e0d586aa93cb8687dd7dc0e593b6a820df2d6e1d
PKG_MAINTAINER:=Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
PKG_BUILD_PARALLEL:=1