A new dual 10G router based on Filogic 880 (Banana Pi BPi-R4)

Heatsingk only:

Heatsink + fan (select 5v):

Please note you have to replace the plug of the fan with PH 2.0MM 3pin.
I arranged to fit the board in a BPI-R3 plastic case manually modded and adapted a plastic grid on the topin order to have air flow. Unfortunately I had to disconnect the fan because not possible to control and I do not want to keep it always on. At the moment the temp with the passive heat sink is around 57°. I htink acceptable.

Oh so the mounting holes are exactly the same as south/north bridge heatsink? That's great, I will try to get a bigger one first.

I found a “starter case” with fansink for R4 on aliexpress:

Case with and without fan:

https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005006541585546.html

Fansink alone:

https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005006544838058.html

Cons:

The acrylic case has no holes for wifi antennas or 5G cellular modem (DIY).
The thermal pads beneath the fansink (DDR4 and eMMC) are looking thick.

Pros:

3 pin PWM fan matching with R4
fansink will be be easily installed via push pins
price okay?

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I'm also interestet in Fibocom FM350GL. But banana pi prefers Quectel RM520N.
I did not look for the pinning of FM350GL. Is there a 100% match for R4?

If the offical firmware snapshot supports the FM350GL out of the box, then please write back!

If someone has tried RM255C-GL, then please also write back too. For me it is very attractive, because of less power consumption!

There is a printable case:

Acrylic case is available at Aliexpress ...

I bought an acrylic case for BPI-R3 for my BPI-R4 and the fan (it works only on 2 pins as per documentation).
For bottom I used longer stand-offs to fit NVMe and Wifi cards. I dont use all back sides per now. Maybe if it will come I will organize something better :slight_smile:


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Confirm some fan pwm doesnt work... so my fan is working all the time

I was working on setup FM350GL on my BPI-R4 and now it is operational.

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You are a maker :slightly_smiling_face:! I have done the same for R3 by using R2 acrylic case.

There is also a discussion at banana pi forum:

Looks like fan-PWM will need a bit time!

For me the most important topic is this:

Hi, the Intel be200 is working fine with the adapter? Recently I bought a Intel card with the adapter and compile image with config options:

CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-iwlwifi=y 
CONFIG_PACKAGE_iwlwifi-firmware-be200=y

And it does not work on my side. Have you done something more?

BE200 is already supported? I thought not yet

@danpawlik & @DroZDi I have not been able to get Intel BE200 based m.2 cards to work on AMD based platforms. It looks like they only work in conjunction with Intel based processors/chipsets. I assume the same problem also occurs with ARM based SOCs.

From my point of view it looks like the recent hardware generation is not fully PCIe compliant - compared to previous generation(s) connector has changed also to something CNVi-like (E/A key to E only - see picture).

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they work fine in Nvidia Jetson Nanos

I've tested Intel AX210 and it works fine with MediaTek's FiLogic SoC.

Very slick :slight_smile: can you share which antennas are you using?

I'm aware that AX210 does work with many plaforms.
The question opened here is about the new BE200 module :wink:

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For a modem FM350GL antennas provided with the module - like for laptop usage. But as in my location 5G coverage is on the edge Im thinking to to get something new.
For internal Wifi (MT7922) I got something on aliexpess but I didnt make many tests by now as to be honnest I made my router running 6 days ago :wink: it was more then 1 month wating for OpenWrt :smiley:

Have you done something more than adding

CONFIG_PACKAGE_kmod-iwlwifi=y 
CONFIG_PACKAGE_iwlwifi-firmware-be200=y

Into the .config file to make it work on the Nvidia Jetson device?