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Re:OpenWrt 21.02.0 Released by wtallis on Sunday September 05, 2021 @02:55AM (#28422120)
Wifi is only hit or miss because it's often difficult or impossible to tell when a vendor has silently swapped out the guts of a model and replaced them with Broadcom parts.
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Re:OpenWrt 21.02.0 Released by ur-whale on Sunday September 05, 2021 @04:53AM (#28422608)
How does dd-wrt pull it off, then?
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Re:OpenWrt 21.02.0 Released by stragies on Sunday September 05, 2021 @07:11AM (#28423346)
(As far as I know:) By sticking to the Vendor-supplied SDK kernel version, with ancient blobbed up 3.X Linux kernels, for architectures, where modern kernel/module/userspace (source) is not available.

Openwrt aims for "near-mainline" blob-free kernel, currently on 5.4, with 5.10 in current master for many architectures.

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