WIFI DONGLE with 5GHz AP support?

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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       
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[ 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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