Hi,
after reading tons of information, I still can't understand if there is a WIFI-USB dongle with 5ghz which supports AP mode and works with LEDE/Openwrt without compiling drivers?
If it is, would you mind to help me with a model name?
My configuration:
LEDE_RELEASE="OpenWrt SNAPSHOT r6514-ed369e0"
LEDE_ARCH="x86_64"
148f:5572 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5572 Wireless Adapter
software interface modes (can always be added):
* AP/VLAN
* monitor
valid interface combinations:
* #{ managed } <= 1, #{ AP, P2P-client, P2P-GO } <= 1, #{ P2P-device } <= 1,
total <= 3, #channels <= 2
0e8d:7612 MediaTek Inc.
software interface modes (can always be added):
* AP/VLAN
* monitor
valid interface combinations:
* #{ managed } <= 1, #{ AP, P2P-client, P2P-GO } <= 1, #{ P2P-device } <= 1,
total <= 3, #channels <= 2
Thanks for answer.
Could you determine which kernel module is needed for this adapters?
I mean "Which driver is used by those devices?"
mt76xx?
I just want to be sure that driver is compiled and available for x86_64
AndrewZ:
mt76x2u
Did you test mt76x2u with AP mode 5ghz?
As I know AP mode on mt76 driver was not working, is it fixed already?
Not tested, as I recall. I used it for Mesh only. I would recommend to use the normal AP instead of a dongle in a router.
my router is x86_64 laptop, and it has only 2.4ghz inside...
jeff1
October 26, 2019, 8:26am
12
I have a netgear a6210 running x86 on master with mt76 driver update from the source as the current mt76 driver on OpenWrt has not been updated, it support ac 5GHz on AP and STA
BusyBox v1.31.0 () built-in shell (ash)
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OpenWrt SNAPSHOT, r11329-b9d58f7e06
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root@OpenWrt:/# dmesg | grep mt76
[ 15.993895] usbcore: registered new interface driver mt76x2u
root@OpenWrt:/# opkg list | grep mt76
kmod-mt76-core - 4.19.79+2019-10-20-fc3b1920-1
kmod-mt76-usb - 4.19.79+2019-10-20-fc3b1920-1
kmod-mt76x02-common - 4.19.79+2019-10-20-fc3b1920-1
kmod-mt76x02-usb - 4.19.79+2019-10-20-fc3b1920-1
kmod-mt76x2-common - 4.19.79+2019-10-20-fc3b1920-1
kmod-mt76x2u - 4.19.79+2019-10-20-fc3b1920-1
root@OpenWrt:/# iw wlan0 info
Interface wlan0
ifindex 21
wdev 0x5
addr 00:40:00:30:00:00
ssid AP6210
type AP
wiphy 0
channel 153 (5765 MHz), width: 80 MHz, center1: 5775 MHz
txpower 18.00 dBm
multicast TXQ:
qsz-byt qsz-pkt flows drops marks overlmt hashcol tx-bytes tx-packets
0 0 16
root@OpenWrt:/# iperf3 -c 192.168.1.190
Connecting to host 192.168.1.190, port 5201
[ 7] local 192.168.1.1 port 55650 connected to 192.168.1.190 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr Cwnd
[ 7] 0.00-1.00 sec 44.1 MBytes 370 Mbits/sec 0 1.19 MBytes
[ 7] 1.00-2.00 sec 42.5 MBytes 357 Mbits/sec 0 1.59 MBytes
[ 7] 2.00-3.00 sec 31.2 MBytes 262 Mbits/sec 0 1.59 MBytes
[ 7] 3.00-4.00 sec 53.8 MBytes 450 Mbits/sec 0 1.59 MBytes
[ 7] 4.00-5.00 sec 53.8 MBytes 452 Mbits/sec 0 1.59 MBytes
[ 7] 5.00-6.00 sec 53.8 MBytes 451 Mbits/sec 0 1.59 MBytes
[ 7] 6.00-7.00 sec 56.2 MBytes 472 Mbits/sec 0 1.59 MBytes
[ 7] 7.00-8.00 sec 55.0 MBytes 461 Mbits/sec 0 1.59 MBytes
[ 7] 8.00-9.00 sec 55.0 MBytes 461 Mbits/sec 0 1.59 MBytes
[ 7] 9.00-10.00 sec 55.0 MBytes 462 Mbits/sec 0 1.59 MBytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 7] 0.00-10.00 sec 500 MBytes 420 Mbits/sec 0 sender
[ 7] 0.00-10.05 sec 497 MBytes 415 Mbits/sec receiver
iperf Done.
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Can you elaborate on how you updated the driver from the source? Did you get the driver source from https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76 ?
jeff1
October 31, 2019, 7:37am
14
From the OpenWrt mt76 source https://github.com/openwrt/mt76 edit the mt76 Makefile.
If you look at the OpenWrt mt76 Makefile history you can see a lot of examples how the driver has been updated https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/tree/master/package/kernel/mt76
As example the one I using now https://github.com/1Jeff1/openwrt/commit/59bc22c57263c39978994e4fec00f5d973a53bb1
bsafh
August 19, 2020, 7:43am
15
@jeff1
excuse to bring up this "old" topic again, but ...
has this "fix"/update been included into OpenWRT 19.x? Or ist it still neccessary to update the source and build the firmware by yourself?
The Makefile diff you pinted to pull the source from PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://github.com/1Jeff1/mt76.git
is that still valid?
Or is all this obsolete by now and the MT7621u chips are alredy supported in AP mode by OpenWRT (19.x or master)?