airmon-ng reports that chipset is Ralink 2560 PCI rt2500.
aircrack compatibility tables says that "The entire rt2x00 family: rt2400pci, rt2500pci, rt2500usb, rt2800pci and rt2800usb can inject and monitor. Including PCI and USB chips on b/g/n".
http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=compatibility_drivers&DokuWiki=c4a36903831ab7b2c40874416f5f8ea6#compatibility
Seems like it should work. If I try to start capture on airmon-ng, it will say "monitor mode enabled" but iwconfig reports that it is still in "Managed" mode.
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root@OpenWrt:~# airmon-ng start ra0
Interface Chipset Driver
ra0 Ralink 2560 PCI rt2500 (monitor mode enabled)
apcli1 Ralink 2560 PCI rt2500
apcli0 Ralink 2560 PCI rt2500
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root@OpenWrt:~# iwconfig
eth0.1 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
ra0 RTWIFI SoftAP ESSID:"VoCore2"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: B8:D8:12:67:32:BB
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=17 dBm
Link Quality=10/100 Signal level:0 dBm Noise level:-77 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
apcli1 RTWIFI SoftAP ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power=17 dBm
eth0 no wireless extensions.
apcli0 RTWIFI SoftAP ESSID:"VC-Test"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: E4:8D:8C:09:04:86
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=17 dBm
br-lan no wireless extensions.
eth0.2 no wireless extensions.
Not an expert on chipsets and drivers, but maybe it is related to missing nl80211?
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root@OpenWrt:~# iw dev ra0 info
nl80211 not found.
System is Linux OpenWrt 3.18.29 #32 Sat Dec 24 22:01:05 CST 2016 mips GNU/Linux with VoCore firmware from 20161224.
Thanks.