[Banana BPI-R4] Wifi7 status

[DroZDi]

check this thread out

[mex778]

802.11be QCA cards eg WLE7002E25, anyone?

I initially got it working with Radxa Rock 4B, but moved to Radxa Rock 5B shortly after - both using m.2 m key NVME to mini PCIe adapter, and running latest OpenWRT snapshot. Note that both these SBCs provide up to 10W to respective slots, which exceeds the card’s power budget with some headroom. Compex WLE7002E25 QCN6224 according to the listing. First, I got the card running with older 1.3 firmware and board file that was kindly provided by another user, whom I am very grateful to. Faile…

[ssdnvv]

@CyberDeath

there is one realy handy guy that made it work

Do you have a link?

[CyberDeath]

6.12 kernel

[Banana BPI-R4] all related to MTK-SDK

I forgot about the tx power patch because I don't need it ...I'll add it there . I use this https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006458155902.html EDIT: Here should be the 6.12 release with TX power patch . I can't test it because I don't have such a defective card .

6.6 kernel

[Banana BPI-R4] all related to MTK-SDK

Try this

Lots of other builds in this topic most of them with TX/RX patch and other patches
[Banana BPI-R4] all related to MTK-SDK - Community Builds, Projects & Packages - OpenWrt Forum

[mex778]

Banana Pi is working on a new BE14:

Banana Pi BPI-BE14 Wifi7 Module Heat sink and FAN

[danpawlik]

Someone tested new firmware: or it is old but just in new commit ?

Can not check it now, but if someone is interested - feel free to let others know

[mhalano]

Interesting… There is a tutorial about how to use it? Just add the feed? At least for stable series we need to execute some extra commands.

[danpawlik]

Usually, what I do is:

AP_IP=192.168.88.2
git clone https://git01.mediatek.com/openwrt/feeds/mtk-openwrt-feeds
cd mtk-openwrt-feeds
for i in mt7996_dsp.bin mt7996_eeprom.bin mt7996_eeprom_233.bin mt7996_eeprom_233_2i5i6i.bin mt7996_eeprom_2i5i6i.bin mt7996_rom_patch.bin mt7996_rom_patch_233.bin mt7996_wa.bin mt7996_wa_233.bin mt7996_wm.bin mt7996_wm_233.bin; do 
  scp -O ./autobuild/unified/filogic/mac80211/25.12/files/package/kernel/mt76/src/firmware/mt7996/$i root@${AP_IP}:/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7996/$i; 
done

then reboot

[mhalano]

So you don’t actually use the feed, just the firmware files, correct?

[danpawlik]

More less yes. If I’m on vanilla/my image then yes, doing scp + reboot device is enough.

I also build images with MTK feed using my script . Right now triggered build with GH actions.

[mhalano]

I understand. I will give a look in your scripts. What I’m doing right now is adding the feed, copying the files and applying the patches as the documentation says, but using 25.12 instead of 24.10.

I hope thing get better, specially the upload speed.

[ssdnvv]

@ssdnvv

My issue is currently, that my client devices keep being glued to the 6E SSID.

It seems this is not only limited to the 6GHz-band, but also the other bands seem to get prioritized by my client devices even if their SNR is way below the SNRs of my other access points’ SSIDs.
I have atm only deployed one BE14, so the other AP’s SSIDs are setup with MT7915/MT7916-cards.

Has anyone built a setup that contains at least 1 BPI-R4 with BE14 + other OpenWrt devices on their properties without roaming client issues (or can confirm my findings)?

[mhalano]

Couldn’t compile an image. I think I will try your image or wait for a new one from the vendor based on OpenWrt 25.12.

[SpectreDev]

I have the same issue but with only 1 bpi r4 and 1 mx4200v1

[ssdnvv]

Thanks, I precised my question.

So in your case it is BE14 vs. QCN5024, in my case BE14 vs. MT7916/MT7915.

Did you configure your BE14 to run in BE or in AX mode? For me this doesn't make any difference nor does reducing TX-power for BE14 (nor increasing TX-power for the other cards).

Edit: did you try using DAWN to enhance your situation?

[SpectreDev]

Dawn doesn't really work well for me the hearing map never shows and BE makes no difference

[mhalano]

I think everyone is at the same page about upload speed being a shirt with BE14.

What I did and worked well, was replacing wolfssl, which I used with hardware acceleration, with OpenSSL.

Now in my smartphone, that just supports 6E, the speed is about 250-300mbit/s. Far way than the 1gbit/s that I have for download, but used to be 150-200mbit/s before this little change.

[ssdnvv]

wrong statement

[mhalano]

Yes, I use the SNAPSHOT version. Two things: did you use the BE14 Wi-Fi card? And how do you measure your speed? I measure using iperf3 that I have installed in the router.

[ssdnvv]

Wrong statement

edit: I was completely wrong. I’ve setup another access point on my property a couple of days ago and maybe those are the results I had in mind. This BPI-R4 has a MT7916 installed, and when running iperf there I get the following results (with wpad-openssl as software and S. Galaxy ZFlip 6 as client and distance <1m):

root@AP_Atellier:~# iperf3 -s -i 10
-----------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on 5201 (test #1)
-----------------------------------------------------------
Accepted connection from 192.168.1.82, port 48896
[  5] local 192.168.21.9 port 5201 connected to 192.168.1.82 port 48910
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-10.01  sec  1.80 GBytes  1.55 Gbits/sec
[  5]  10.01-10.02  sec  2.62 MBytes  1.96 Gbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-10.02  sec  1.80 GBytes  1.55 Gbits/sec                  receiver

But when running against an access point with BE14 installed, I get

root@AP_OG:~# iperf3 -s -i 10
-----------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on 5201 (test #1)
-----------------------------------------------------------
Accepted connection from 192.168.21.82, port 47076
[  5] local 192.168.21.7 port 5201 connected to 192.168.21.82 port 47078
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-10.01  sec   942 MBytes   789 Mbits/sec
[  5]  10.01-10.05  sec  4.12 MBytes   773 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-10.05  sec   946 MBytes   789 Mbits/sec                  receiver

I really thought it would have been better - sorry for the noise.