I just purchased a Netgear Nighthawk X4 R7500 router and have quickly discovered the horror stories about the stock Netgear firmware are true. Having been a long time user of OpenWrt, I already miss it dearly after just a single day. So I'm interested in either donating the router to a reputable developer who would be committed to getting a build of Barrier Breaker going on it, or to setup a build environment that would allow me to do the same.

I see that there is already a build of Attitude Adjustment for it over at myopenrouter.com, though it apparently doesn't work with the 5ghz band nor does it support any external packages. It does run a Qualcomm Atheros CPU and a secondary Quantenna CPU. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

According to wikidevi ( https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_R7500 )

The wifi chip is QT3840BC from Quantenna.
I cannot find any Linux Kernel Support for that chips.
I looked at linux-wireless mailing list and the Kernel git tree (torvalds/linux.git).

This router might be supported by OpenWrt BUT without AC wireless for the near future.

(Last edited by zloop on 15 Feb 2015, 00:18)

Hi
the AA version does work with 5GHz and a few people are currently attempting to compile packages for it. I used it for over a month on mine before the lack of packages forced me back to Gargoyle on my WDR4300. I would love to get a full AA or BB version running on my R7500.