Best VSDL modem-router to target?

[Christian Lamparter]

On 03/12/2021 22:21, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 2021-12-03, Andrew Punch wrote:
>> Spoke too soon Fritzbox 7490 has been discontinued. Might be able to
>> get one from the US if I use the freight forwarder but I don't like my
>> chances.
> 
> The Fritz!Box 7490 is rather special, two SOCs on one board (lantiq
> base, with an ath79 board dealing with the wireless on top and special
> VLANs between them), while there has been progress to get this working,
> it has never been merged (or submitted for potential merging) to
> OpenWrt. (It's pretty complex, you'd need to build two image, one
> lantiq, and a specially crafted initramfs image for ath79, using a
> special configuration conduit between them, to initialize and run the
> wireless on the ath79 SOC). Additionally DECT and FXS of the AVM devices
> is not supported by OpenWrt (DECT isn't at all, for FXS uses a different
> approach than other lantiq devices).

Also something to look out for. A older, used "AVM Fritz!Box 7490" might
have those QCA9880-AR1A (aka QCA9880v1) - the 3x3 5Ghz 802.11ac Wifi.
Support for these early and buggy chips have been dropped by upstream
ath10k and any attempt to add support back have been met with "silence".

Cheers,
Christian