Rtl8196e Openwrt !!top!!

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.

DD-WRT briefly flirted with RTL8196E support around 2015 but abandoned it due to driver issues. Do not waste time. rtl8196e openwrt