mwlwifi

This page is intended to describe the support status, capabilities, and functional restrictions of the mwlwifi wifi driver; this driver provides mac80211 support for the Marvell 88W8x64 802.11ac chip series, found in Linksys WRT AC Series devices.

Marvell maintains a repository with the official code for the driver at https://github.com/kaloz/mwlwifi.

Bugs and issues found in these drivers can be reported at https://github.com/kaloz/mwlwifi/issues.

→ Latest mwlwifi git commits

There are some special considerations that must be taken into account when using several features on the 5GHz channels; have a look at special considerations for more details.

LEDE Latest Stable build with latest NodeJs 9, always the latest Kaloz mwlwifi's WIFI driver, latest Redis 4 stable, MariaDB 5.5, ...

• Instructions and files: https://pages.corifeus.com/github/lede-insomnia
• Discussion: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/lede-insomnia-lede-latest-stable-17-01-4-build-with-custom-nodejs-9-eduperez-mwlwifi-ledes-wifi-driver-redis-4-mariadb-5-5-58/6620/
• GitHub repo: https://github.com/patrikx3/lede-insomnia

David's 1900ac 3200acm Snapshot Builds W/LuCi Modern

• Instructions and files: https://davidc502sis.dynamic-dns.net/
• Discussion: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/davidc502-wrt1200ac-wrt1900acx-wrt3200acm-wrt32x-builds/15839

Updated pre-compiled packages, that can be installed on top of stable releases

• Instructions: https://github.com/eduperez/mwlwifi_LEDE
• Files: https://github.com/eduperez/mwlwifi_LEDE/releases
• Discussion: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/pre-compiled-updated-mwlwifi-drivers-for-stable-releases/3262