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Support for Netgear WNDR3700v5 #442

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mmalte opened this issue Aug 21, 2015 · 4 comments
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Support for Netgear WNDR3700v5 #442

mmalte opened this issue Aug 21, 2015 · 4 comments
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@mmalte
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mmalte commented Aug 21, 2015

Hello,
we are running short on any fully compatible gluon compatible devices with dual band support.

I'd love to see support for the Netgear WNDR3700v5:

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wndr3700
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=56737&p=2

Is it reasonable to order one to investigate the possibilities?
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At the moment, there is no working driver for MediaTek's 5GHz WLAN (at least not on the Archer C2*, which use a MediaTek chipset as well).

Also note that the Ralink-based MediaTek WLAN adapters will never support AP+IBSS mode, but as soon as IBSS has been replaced with 11s (as already supported by the Gluon master), we'll finally be able to support some non-Atheros chips, including Ralink-based ones.

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mmalte commented Aug 21, 2015

Okay, so this is an openWRT and not an gluon issue.

Are you able to guess how long it usually takes to solve such an issue.

What does it take to support the community to get this done?

Do you recommend to work on this device or is there another more promising dual band device for around 50€?

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The time to get WLAN driver support for new chips? Can range from months to decades... Although the development of the MediaTek drivers is more or less active, so having them supported this or next year is likely. In contrast to the basic platform support, which is realized a a Linux kernel patch and thus must be open due the the terms of the GPL, the WLAN drivers are usually complely closed, so unless the vendor supports the development of open drivers, reversing them is impossible for most people...

At the moment, I don't know of any devices I could recommend. Most new dualband devices have 802.11ac, and as far as I know, no 11ac-cabable card has good open source drivers yet. I think it'll take a few more years until 802.11ac is really usable with open software, but it is getting harder and harder to find old (ath9k-based) dualband hardware...

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mmalte commented Aug 21, 2015

Well, that sounds like I'll focus on the archer c5 because there is nothing I can do about this one.

@rotanid rotanid added the 3. topic: hardware Topic: Hardware Support label Aug 22, 2016
ecsv added a commit to FreifunkVogtland/gluon that referenced this issue Jan 26, 2019
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modules: update routing packages
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ea345d16a6e2 Merge pull request freifunk-gluon#442 from ecsv/batadv-18.06
02313085eae4 batman-adv: Merge bugfixes from 2019.0
ecsv added a commit to FreifunkVogtland/gluon that referenced this issue Jan 27, 2019
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modules: update routing packages
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ea345d16a6e2 Merge pull request freifunk-gluon#442 from ecsv/batadv-18.06
02313085eae4 batman-adv: Merge bugfixes from 2019.0
mweinelt added a commit that referenced this issue Jan 27, 2019
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modules: update routing
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ea345d1 Merge pull request #442 from ecsv/batadv-18.06
0231308 batman-adv: Merge bugfixes from 2019.0

Compile-tested: ar71xx-{tiny,generic}, ramips-mt7621, x86-64
Runtime-tested: ar71xx-generic (TP-Link TL-WR1043NDv2)
mweinelt added a commit that referenced this issue Feb 4, 2019
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modules: update routing
1ae362f 
ea345d1 Merge pull request #442 from ecsv/batadv-18.06
0231308 batman-adv: Merge bugfixes from 2019.0

Compile-tested: ar71xx-{tiny,generic}, ramips-mt7621, x86-64
Runtime-tested: ar71xx-generic (TP-Link TL-WR1043NDv2)
christf pushed a commit to christf/gluon that referenced this issue May 23, 2019
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modules: update routing
efef9b0 
ea345d1 Merge pull request freifunk-gluon#442 from ecsv/batadv-18.06
0231308 batman-adv: Merge bugfixes from 2019.0

Compile-tested: ar71xx-{tiny,generic}, ramips-mt7621, x86-64
Runtime-tested: ar71xx-generic (TP-Link TL-WR1043NDv2)
SvenRoederer pushed a commit to SvenRoederer/freifunk-gluon_core that referenced this issue Sep 29, 2019
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[feeds] update luci feed to HEAD of release branch 15.05/CC
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Included changes:

a66c088 luci-app-firewall: limit zone name length to 11 characters
4b048cd applications/asterisk: Remove incorrect dependency
eb1ff5b Move libubus-lua dependency to luci-base
d38c239 luci-app-diag-devinfo: mark broken due to dependencies
103e5a3 luci-app-statistics: Adjust ping graphs to show target hosts separately
ae4f8d5 luci-app-statistics: improve scaling of the associated stations graph
18d9c67 luci-app-statistics: backport 'reorder interface and netlink datasources'
8a9ff2b luci-app-statistics: add support for sorting RRD data sources
d4b293b luci-app-statistics: improve diagram generation, add missing title
7b3fea1 luci-app-statistics: rework graph label handling
c8b12e7 Backport luci-base: filter invalid opkg status lines
ce5c787 for-15.05 opkg/packages: Show package size in list of available packages
3e19939 for-15.05: Sync translations
fcc24db luci.mk: correct SK language name to Slovak
ce4ee38 luci-app-statistics: reorganise menu items
321864a luci-base: change index.html to be more like current themes
4bff628 luci-base: Add cache control in index.html
94d8e86 Timezone information: update to 2015g
8832d53 luci-mod-admin-full: status: survive broken DSL status output
f21eb78 luci-app-statistics: only render index view for more than one instance
af9f093 luci-mod-admin-full: fix dnsmasq no-hosts/addn-hosts options
6787a0a for-15.05 luci-base: set default mediaurlbase to bootstrap (default theme)
0b72c51 for-15.05 luci-mod-admin-full: opkg config / prevent word-wrap
5e7c0f0 for-15.05 luci-mod-admin-full: restore opkg feed config capability
720f76c for-15.05 luci-app-firewall: use maxlength datatype for zone name validation
342af52 Merge pull request freifunk-gluon#486 from dwmw2/for-15.05
75327e3 luci/statistics: Fix nut UPS graphs
30f6fe8 Merge pull request freifunk-gluon#474 from hnyman/entropy-1505
d91f0ef statistics: remove references to Lucid from scripts
8e156d6 statistics: adjust default settings to match default plugins
a2a61aa statistics: cleanup config file
8b1de85 for-15.05 statistics: Add support for entropy stats
3836b45 Luci opkg/packages: Limit version string display to 26 chars
b179283 statistics: fix typo
8d2b570 Merge pull request freifunk-gluon#455 from hnyman/backport-stats
7167d97 statistics: clarify CPU/processor graph by removing "idle" from it
27ca079 statistics: clarify stats introduction
f6a4436 statistics: memory plugin - improve graph by better scaling of y-axis
119eaf2 statistics: support rrdtool's alt_autoscale and alt_autoscale_max options
18593ec statistics: cpu graph - add label definitions, add softirq and interrupt stats
791ca8b Delete luci-upnp
21cf10c Merge pull request freifunk-gluon#445 from hnyman/for-15.05
36a7fb4 statistics: fix ping graph label regression
22f687d http.protocol: Support filehandlers for unhandled encodings
7d8163e Merge pull request freifunk-gluon#442 from hnyman/for-15.05
428d181 for-15:05: Timezone information: update to 2015f
c595f30 luci-app-vnstat: Fix blank graphs for iface names with underscores
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