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Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit

TL;DR: My TP-Link EAP770 v1 corrupts downloads over Wi-Fi and TP-Link EOL'd it before I unboxed it. The fix is two zeros in sysfs. TP-Link's shell won't let me write them, so I wrote a kernel exploit for my own fucking access point. Long downloads kept breaking# In August 2023 I bought a shiny new Wi-Fi 7 access point, a TP-Link EAP770. The connection was a bit janky, a video would occasionally start buffering, but it didn't bother me much. I mostly worked on a workstation connected over Etherne...

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