BPI-R2 with BPI-7615(based on MT7615) module development progress

xbgmsharp · April 11, 2018, 9:13am

@garywang Mediatek provide driver for 4.16 why would you port souce code from V4.16 to V4.14?

garywang · April 11, 2018, 9:45am

I made a mistake, Vendor just supports kernel 4.4, don’t have plan to support V4.16 yet. Of couce the V4.14 is working for R2, but lots of functions are not implemented yet.

xbgmsharp · April 11, 2018, 10:17am

Thanks make sense. I made a matrix to point the lack of support in 4.14, fell free to edit it.

github.com

frank-w/BPI-R2-4.14/blob/4.14_main/README.md


Kernel 4.14 for BPI-R2

## Requirements

Need cross compile tools for the armhf architecture and additional bison and flex-package:
```sh
sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf libc6-armhf-cross u-boot-tools bc make gcc libc6-dev libncurses5-dev libssl-dev bison flex
```

## Usage

  ./build.sh importconfig
  ./build.sh config
  ./build.sh

## Branch details

Kernel upstream branch are:
 * 4.16, 4.14, 4.9

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frank-w · April 11, 2018, 11:19am

nice Readme

wifi is working in 4.14…have it running since yesterday…not long enough for stability-statement, but at least it works like in 4.4

4.4. is in separate repository https://github.com/frank-w/BPI-R2-4.4

hnat works in your tests in 4.14? how about the the 2nd-gmac-problem? your hnat-patch (https://github.com/frank-w/BPI-R2-4.14/commit/d3177950c9153ac77f36c86204b16b4278d109c2) includes 2nd gmac…have you correct traffic on lan/wan?

added this to your Matrix and Links to Forum and my Wiki

Maciek_Szelagowski · July 11, 2018, 8:56am

Is those MT7615 wifi module is working on your 4.14 kernel?

frank-w · July 11, 2018, 10:08am

No,currently there is only a driver for 4.4, i don’t have such card yet, so i can not start porting driver

Maciek_Szelagowski · July 11, 2018, 1:18pm

Is MT7615 much better then on your site MT7612E? There is difference in 4x4 and 2x2 and big in price 66usd vs 19usd Need to have as longest range in home (small house and 40m away) And my net is 4G (now I’m using external router as bridge)

frank-w · July 11, 2018, 1:23pm

Imho you can start 2 ap on mt7615,7612 only supports 1 ap simultanously. But currently i have only a 7612…

Maciek_Szelagowski · July 11, 2018, 3:51pm

I need one main network 5G and one for IOT (domoticz+easyESP) 2.4G

So there will be no difference for me …

Going to Aliexpress to buy one.

Thanks for advice

Maciek_Szelagowski · July 12, 2018, 6:14am

Which one is better in your opinion:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/MTK-MT7612E-2x2-802-11ac-b-g-n-Enterprise-867Mbps-MiniPCIE-NIC-PCBA-ODM-OEM/32817460933.html?spm=a2g0s.8937460.0.0.4a982e0evTZ40A

or

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/-/32844127884.html?spm=a2g0s.8937460.0.0.4a982e0evTZ40A

heard that the second is running flawless in linux (hope openwrt too)

frank-w · July 12, 2018, 6:40am

Maybe second one…have thought about this too

onon · December 5, 2018, 9:32pm

How can I get the kernel module for the MT7615 for my kernel 4.14?

frank-w · December 7, 2018, 3:33pm

As far as i know there is only a driver for 4.4 which must be ported to 4.14.

Do you have such module and can you test driver in 4.4?

sinovoip · April 11, 2020, 7:38am

MT7615 module have support BPI-R2, BPI-R64, and We have tested the parametric performance of module 7615 in the laboratory.To achieve the optimal

BPI-R64+MT7615 test wifi function with openwrt

http://wiki.banana-pi.org/BPI-R64_%2B_MT7615_function_test

frank-w · April 11, 2020, 7:40am

Have you changed module so that i can use it on v1.0 bpi-r2 board?

schnickidischnack · July 25, 2021, 4:23pm

@sinovoip I’m also interested if your BPI-MT7615 fits now into withe R2/64 without modification? What are the sizes of the card?

Further, I would like to know if you have some European reseller available?