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Please update drivers #106

Open budetisufu opened 5 years ago

budetisufu commented 5 years ago

Hi! The current driver is not suitable for use with 18.06.2. Could you update the drivers?

michallipka commented 5 years ago

It is suitable. Download the latest available driver for 4.14 kernel (so 4.14.93 driver) and it works on openwrt 18.06.2

budetisufu commented 5 years ago

I have almost no experience in this matter. I would be grateful for your help.

root@OpenWrt:~# ls /lib/modules/4.14.111/ | grep mt
mt7628.ko
root@OpenWrt:~# modprobe mt7628
failed to mmap /lib/modules/4.14.111/mt7628.ko
root@OpenWrt:~#
michallipka commented 5 years ago

If you have no experience I would suggest to install latest openwrt snapshot and use open drivers present there - They are stable enough. If you insist on trying closed drivers check issue #104 - you have full walkthrough there

budetisufu commented 5 years ago

The open source driver still works poorly. I did everything right, but it turned out that the driver located in /lib/modules// doesn’t weigh anything, it’s empty. And it is strange.

michallipka commented 5 years ago

So probably you haven't done EVERYTHING right ;) there are no compiled drivers for kernel you are trying to compile. You have to use latest available at http://nossiac.com/download/mtk-wifi-ko/ (4.14.93 for kernel 4.14.x). to have them automatically included in build please edit Makefile(s) /feeds/mtk/drivers/mt76{03,12}/Makefile and change line PKG_KO:=$(PKG_NAME)-for-$(CONFIG_TARGET_SUBTARGET)-linux-$(LINUX_VERSION).ko - replace $(LINUX_VERSION) with 4.14.93 and you should be good. you can also download those drivers separately and just place them as files wherever you want and insmod them.

EUA commented 5 years ago

The open source driver still works poorly. I did everything right, but it turned out that the driver located in /lib/modules// doesn’t weigh anything, it’s empty. And it is strange.

I just wondering what is the issue with open source driver? Thx.

budetisufu commented 5 years ago

I just wondering what is the issue with open source driver? Thx.

It's all about speed. When using a proprietary driver, the speed is several times higher.