Posts made by Razvan Dragomirescu

Do you plan to offer these commercially (assembled)? They would fit perfectly for a project I am working on.

@Douglas-Kryder I know, wasn't pointing this at you, sorry if it sounded that way. I'm just frustrated by some of their choices. I hope they read these threads, a quick search shows that this has been requested many times before.

Thanks for your help and my apologies if I made it sound like you had anything to do with Onion's choices of drivers/technologies.

@Douglas-Kryder There's no need for a new driver, the Ralink one they're using (and that Linkit Smart 7688 also uses) is perfectly fine. They just have no sources or instructions on how to build a custom LEDE firmware with that driver, they point to the vanilla LEDE that supports the Omega2+ but only with mac80211 driver. Of course, if they can improve the performance of mac80211, that would be great, but the Ralink driver is quite a bit faster (and smarter too, for instance it support Client Bridging, something mac80211 doesn't).

Has anyone else noticed that the standard LEDE build uses mac80211 for WiFi and that results in speeds approximately 30 times lower than the proprietary Ralink driver that the standard Omega2 firmware comes with (also used on the Linkit Smart 7688)?

I like the form factor and I planned to integrate it into a project but WiFi speed really kills it for me - Linkit Smart 7688 has published sources that result in the exact firmware they ship with, so it's very easy to change. But I can't find a way to build a custom firmware with Ralink WiFi on the Omega2+.

Has anyone managed to compile a custom LEDE-based firmware that uses the Ralink WiFi drivers present in the Onion default firmware and not the mac80211 ones? I have a particular project that requires wireless client bridging and the Ralink driver supports that (tested on a Linkit Smart 7688) but the mac80211 does not.

I can rewrite my code to get rid of the bridging requirement but I was wondering if I could somehow change the WiFi drivers since that's what the default firmware uses. As far as I understood the source for that firmware has not been published ... I'm still evaluating hardware for my project and I like the fact that the Linkit 7688 line has sources for everything and you can easily compile a copy of the default firmware with all the MTK/Ralink bits on it.

Any clues? Thank you!