Radios for LibreRouter 2

[Felix Fietkau]

Hi,

On 23.01.24 10:54, G10h4ck wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> At Altermundi we have been (mostly silently) advancing with LibreRouter
> 2 project, we have now some prototype at hand and started testing also
> radios, we need that the radio works good with OpenWrt and that at least
> have good 802.11s support in the meanwhile we develop the
> "promiscuous-AP" mode for hostapd, of which I have presented some
> preliminary work at last wireless community weekend.

Nice!

> So far we started testing:
> 
> - MediaTek 7921k
> 
> - Wallys DR 7915
> 
> 
> We don'e have conclusive results yet but we needed M.2 adapters for the
> first model which we would prefer to avoid, and both seems to produce
> too much heat to fit two of those into a router enclosure
> 
> I stress again on the fact that we need them to work good on OpenWrt,
> the usage is mostly for medium to long range outdoor links, preferably
> cheap.

You're not going to get decent mesh/AP mode support out of MT7921, since 
that chipset is primarily made for mobile devices.
Please stick with MT7915 (or MT7916 if you can get it).

- Felix