On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Nicolas Pace <nico@libre.ws> wrote:
On Wed, 2017-06-28 at 16:15 +0300, George Klissiaris wrote:
> The following also looks interesting with detachable antennas and
> gigabit lan, but the cost goes high:
>
> Archer C8 
> http://www.tp-link.com/us/products/details/cat-9_Archer-C8.html
>
> Archer C7
> http://www.tp-link.com/us/products/details/cat-9_Archer-C7.html
>
> Has anybody used them with LibreMesh?
>

Not me... I guess Bruno can comment on this.


Actually these are above our desired price,  but Gui posted about how to cook for C7 (ath10k) a few months ago. I copy the message below:


i don't think i can help more than what i commented in the
"802.11s config" thread :(
i'd say you could ask in LEDE mailing list, since in any case, it's an
upstream problem (i.e. last time i checked, there was no support for
80211s in how ath10k is bundled in LEDE by default)

FWIW as a reference, this is something i found today, a raw diff of
how i hacked the ath10k-firmware package in the buildroot
to pull the (very specific) kvalo firmware that allows the rawmode
needed for 11s mode


$ git diff package/firmware/ath10k-firmware/Makefile
diff --git a/package/firmware/ath10k-firmware/Makefile b/package/firmware/ath10k-firmware/Makefile
index b03d644..70db39b 100644
--- a/package/firmware/ath10k-firmware/Makefile
+++ b/package/firmware/ath10k-firmware/Makefile
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 PKG_NAME:=ath10k-firmware
 PKG_SOURCE_VERSION:=77f72b5f7dd940386d9e619a17904987759b7186
 PKG_VERSION:=2014-11-13-$(PKG_SOURCE_VERSION)
-PKG_RELEASE:=1
+PKG_RELEASE:=2-rawmode

 PKG_SOURCE_PROTO:=git
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.xz
@@ -35,12 +35,12 @@ $(Package/ath10k-firmware-default)
   TITLE:=ath10k firmware for QCA988x devices
 endef

-QCA988X_FIRMWARE_FILE:=firmware-5.bin_10.2.4.97-1
+QCA988X_FIRMWARE_FILE:=firmware-5.bin_10.2.4.70.6-2

 define Download/ath10k-firmware-qca988x
-  URL:=https://www.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic/qsdk/oss/firmware/ath10k-firmware/plain/10.2.4/
+  URL:=https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/raw/master/QCA988X/hw2.0/10.2.4.70/
   FILE:=$(QCA988X_FIRMWARE_FILE)
-  MD5SUM:=fcb2fbd42d73a63fbf603505c718cbde
+  MD5SUM:=71c11c0d4382201ce8e3456c49f6229f
 endef
 $(eval $(call Download,ath10k-firmware-qca988x))