Advice please 🙏

[Almahadeus]

So do we know why the Brume-W has been EOL whilst the normal Brume is not? Aren’t they both based on the same chipset?

[Johnex]

Brume-W is basically a Brume with the guts of a wifi dongle inside. The wifi chip is the one that is causing the entire product to be EOL.

RTL8192EU

I don’t know if it’s the module above that is hard to get now, or the chip itself.

[Johnex]

Well you also need to keep in mind that the OpenWRT guys sometimes make strange decisions. For the AR750s, the OpenWRT guys actually dropped it completely from their build tree, because they wanted larger kernel sizes, and the AR750s uboot didn’t currently support that. GL submitted changes very quickly, but the OpenWRT guys didn’t want to merge them, it took a long time, multiple months for anything to be done. With the S1300 it took them more than 1 year to merge support for it, when GL had patches submitted right after it’s release.

AR750s Slate dropped from Openwrt tree

I am disappointed that the Slate got dropped (link at bottom). Some work should be done to get it back and to change the current 2mb flashing limitations. Some one did a lot of work here (https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/2184) to try to fix everything, but openwrt is so problematic with review and merges. Is GL.iNet going to continue supporting this router to have an Openwrt 19.0x firmware? I am amazed that you all have not re-based by now. It would be better to have newer packages a…

The OpenWRT guys also nearly dropped all the GL routers when they wanted to change from ar71xx to using ATH79, so they don’t always fix things to get them working, they rather just drop support.

[alzhao]

About EOL products, we will make an official announcement in our website, forum and newsletters. Please note, my personal reply to your post is not official announcement. The exact EOL date depends on a lot of issues.

Firmware will still be maintained and supported for 2 years after a product EOL.