A review/rant about the progress that free software wireless drivers (especially on Linux) have made over the recent years, as well as th...

A review/rant about the progress that free software wireless drivers (especially on Linux) have made over the recent years, as well as the current challenges that driver developers (and users) are facing. Felix Fietkau

You seem to imply the router you chose (Archer C7) only makes use of the ath9k driver, which is not the case for the 5GHz bands. Atheros 802.11ac chipsets use a driver (misleadingly) named ath10k. Ath10k is not a driver that has evolved from ath9k as the name suggests, it's a very different driver that needs a binary blob to work properly.

As a result, some of ath9k's makewififast patches cannot be implemented in ath10k. Some TP-Link routers use Atheros 802.11n chipsets and therefore ath9k exclusively. For those wanting to have a completely FOSS router with LEDE, I would recommend the model TL-WDR3600.

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