Hello to the forum,
I'm running a BananaPi BPI-R4 (8 GByte RAM) with BPI-R4-NIC-BE14 WIFI7-Module and Quectel RM520N-GL 5G-modem. And today I upgraded to OpenWRT 24.10.5.
But although I followed the instructions on the getting started page, I neither get WIFI7 nor the G5-modem running.
In the command line outputs of the ls-command below, I find it strange that the WIFI7-part of the NIC
0003:00:00.0 PCI bridge: MEDIATEK Corp. Device 7988 (rev 01)
0003:01:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc Device 0308
as well as the 5G-modem
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 2109:8822 VIA Labs, Inc. USB Billboard Device
are listed, but are not regognized as network controller/modem.
root@NordmannsRouter:~# uname -r
6.6.119
root@NordmannsRouter:~# lsmod | grep mt7
cfg80211 299008 4 mt7996e,mt76_connac_lib,mt76,mac80211
compat 12288 3 mt76,mac80211,cfg80211
mac80211 581632 3 mt7996e,mt76_connac_lib,mt76
mt76 73728 2 mt7996e,mt76_connac_lib
mt76_connac_lib 45056 1 mt7996e
mt7996e 139264 0
root@NordmannsRouter:~# lspci
0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: MEDIATEK Corp. Device 7988 (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 Network controller: MEDIATEK Corp. Device 7990
0001:00:00.0 PCI bridge: MEDIATEK Corp. Device 7988 (rev 01)
0001:01:00.0 Network controller: MEDIATEK Corp. Device 7991
0003:00:00.0 PCI bridge: MEDIATEK Corp. Device 7988 (rev 01)
0003:01:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc Device 0308
root@NordmannsRouter:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux 6.6.119 xhci-hcd xHCI Host Controller
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2109:2822 VIA Labs, Inc. USB2.0 Hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 2109:8822 VIA Labs, Inc. USB Billboard Device
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux 6.6.119 xhci-hcd xHCI Host Controller
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 2109:0822 VIA Labs, Inc. USB3.1 Hub
root@NordmannsRouter:~# dmesg | grep -i firm
[ 0.000000] psci: PSCIv1.1 detected in firmware.
[ 13.880759] mt7996e 0000:01:00.0: WM Firmware Version: ____000000, Build Time: 20250904203304
[ 13.925499] mt7996e 0000:01:00.0: DSP Firmware Version: ____000000, Build Time: 20250904202814
[ 13.947014] mt7996e 0000:01:00.0: WA Firmware Version: ____000000, Build Time: 20250904203218
root@NordmannsRouter:~# ifconfig
br-lan Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 26:61:4D:65:DD:87
inet addr:192.168.4.1 Bcast:192.168.4.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fd5d:677a:f2f6::1/60 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fe80::2461:4dff:fe65:dd87/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:103007 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:92479 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:11506491 (10.9 MiB) TX bytes:221836278 (211.5 MiB)
br-wan Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 26:61:4D:65:DD:88
inet addr:192.168.5.217 Bcast:192.168.5.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2461:4dff:fe65:dd88/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:77231 errors:0 dropped:19918 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:26402 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:34551524 (32.9 MiB) TX bytes:4486977 (4.2 MiB)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 26:61:4D:65:DD:87
inet6 addr: fe80::2461:4dff:fe65:dd87/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1504 Metric:1
RX packets:198969 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:219913 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:50591877 (48.2 MiB) TX bytes:233896957 (223.0 MiB)
Interrupt:106
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 26:61:4D:65:DD:88
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:106
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 26:61:4D:65:DD:88
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:106
lan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 26:61:4D:65:DD:87
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:103375 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:92489 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:12967683 (12.3 MiB) TX bytes:221840966 (211.5 MiB)
lan2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 26:61:4D:65:DD:87
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
lan3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 26:61:4D:65:DD:87
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:3959 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3959 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:381303 (372.3 KiB) TX bytes:381303 (372.3 KiB)
phy0.0-ap0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 26:61:4D:65:DD:89
inet6 addr: fe80::2461:4dff:fe65:dd89/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:1232 (1.2 KiB)
phy0.0-ap1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 22:61:4D:65:DD:89
inet addr:192.168.2.1 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2061:4dff:fe65:dd89/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:19 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1552 (1.5 KiB) TX bytes:3724 (3.6 KiB)
phy0.1-ap0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 26:61:4D:65:DD:99
inet6 addr: fe80::2461:4dff:fe65:dd99/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:872 (872.0 B)
wan Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 26:61:4D:65:DD:88
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:95594 errors:0 dropped:658 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:26402 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:36828318 (35.1 MiB) TX bytes:4486977 (4.2 MiB)
Is there a solution to get both get recognized operated correctly?
And YES, I saw the OpenWRT WIFI7 status-thread. And there user CyberDeath mentioned a TX/RX eprom patch in alternative OpenWRT builds (MTK or immortalWRT) - So:
Is this patch available seperately, where can you get it and how do you apply it.
Regards
"Klaus"