Just bought Convexa-B (GL-B1300), 5G WiFi not visible

[stavol]

Hi, sorry for asking you again. I was thinking about installing OpenWRT 19.07, but then I found this post:

Firmware 3.022 on GL-B1300 is OpenWrt Chaos Chalmer 15.05.1 r48067

We have covered this in other threads. The B1300/S1300 routers are dependent on the Qualcomm build environment which is currently stuck on 15.05.1, nothing that GL can do at the moment about upgrading to a later OpenWRT version. As soon as Qualcomm updates their build environment, GL will put up an update shortly after. If you want you can build your own 18.06.2 following the OpenWRT build guides, but you will loose a lot of wifi performance since it won’t contain the Qualcomm closed source dr…

The post is from last year. Is this still the case? Thank you.