But effectively all it would need, is someone pushing for it - to provide a (long-term-) manageable pull request with lexra support against OpenWrt/ master, kernel 4.14, musl, hostapd/ nl80211 for the wlan drivers and not too many arch specific changes (so it can be reasonably updated with the rest of OpenWrt and not stay behind). Personally I don't think lexra will 'ever' be supported in LEDE/ OpenWrt (too different from normal mips, no upstream/ toolchain support at all, very low-end devices, the wlan situation (drivers, AP mode reliability, nl80211 support) is difficult). The wireless network card is a USB interface, and the chip model is Realtek RTL8811AU. In terms of lexra (Realtek's reduced mips ISA) support, there is none - nor anyone actively pushing for it (as in providing patches/ pull requests against current master) chances for this to change are non-zero, but extremely low (once you'd have hypothetical lexra arch/ SOC support, there would still be the problem of the wlan drivers and current hostapd/ nl80211, to drive them reliably in AP mode). Location of the network device drivers in a simplified structure of the Linux kernel.

This is a list of the status of some open-source drivers for 802.11 wireless network cards. | devel_kernel-32bit | devel_kernel-32bit | pattern Wireless network cards for computers require control software to make them function ( firmware, device drivers ). | devel_kernel | Linux Kernel Development | pattern | devel_kde-32bit | devel_kde-32bit | pattern | devel_java-32bit | devel_java-32bit | pattern

| devel_java | Java Development | pattern | devel_ide-32bit | devel_ide-32bit | pattern | devel_ide | Integrated Development Environments | pattern | devel_gnome-32bit | devel_gnome-32bit | pattern | devel_gnome | GNOME Development | pattern | devel_cell-32bit | devel_cell-32bit | pattern | devel_cell | Cell Development | pattern Insert the USB device if the installer asks for it, switch via Ctrl + Alt + F2 to a virtual terminal and mount your device to /lib/firmware/, e.g. | devel_basis-32bit | devel_basis-32bit | pattern Open the data archive inside it and put the content of lib/firmware/ into the root directory of your FAT USB device. I | devel_basis | Base Development | pattern | devel_C_C++-32bit | devel_C_C++-32bit | pattern Realtek PCIe FE / GbE / 2.5GbE / Gaming Family Controller Software Quick Download Link Realtek USB FE / GbE / 2. I | devel_C_C++ | C/C++ Development | pattern In SUSE Linux-based distros, this would be the 'Base Development' (devel_basis) pattern, which you can install with zypper install -type pattern devel_basis.

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