Rtl8196e Openwrt ((hot)) Direct

Support for RTL8196E devices was never merged into the main stable branches of OpenWrt (like 19.07 or 21.02) in any widespread capacity. However, there are community builds. These are usually forks maintained by individual developers hacking away at the proprietary blobs.

Turning the router into a simple serial-to-Ethernet bridge or a dumb AP.

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