I have not heard it and official page does not list it too
https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-R3#Key_Features
Where have you found this information?
Btw why do you need bluetooth on a router?
Probably confusing the R3 specs with the M3. The M3 has bluetooth, but is a completely different platform.
To control IoT devices that use bluetooth.
I asked sinovoip before buying it exactly because the wiki does not list the capability.
you could use a bluetooth-usb-adapter on one of the internal usb-connectors (9-pin jacket, there are adapters 9pin2usb on ebay) or use a usb-only-card in mPCIe slot
v1.1 has a common 9pin-header where you can use multiple adapters like this:
The sinovoip rep got confused in August.
I guess adding bluetooth support would require also a custom case to fit it.
I want to how to generate the single image from source code, like these, mtk-bpi-r3-NAND-WAN1-SFP1-20220619-single-image.bin, mtk-bpi-r3-SD-WAN1-SFP1-20220619-single-image.img, after complied success, I have these files, but no one contain single-image.
Using openwrt snapshot image & jumper switch to SNAND, the emmc is not working when trying to flash emmc.
Using openwrt image from BPI, the emmc is detected.
Found the problem: wrong position of SW6
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hi
were you able to get the wifi 6e board to work? if so, how? I have the same set up as you (adapter and MT7921k), i just booted from NAND when board was delivered
Many Thanks
For the MT7921 module to work you have to use vanilla OpenWrt, first of all. I don’t think it works with the pre-installed OS.
When running recent OpenWrt snapshot, you can install the needed drivers for WiFi 6E and Bluetooth:
opkg update
opkg install kmod-mt7921e mt7921bt-firmware kmod-bluetooth
You should then see the module being detected and configurable by OpenWrt, including 6 GHz channels in HE160 mode.
That easy? Do you recommend that module MT7921k? There are plenty on aliexpress. Would WED work?
I bought those el’cheapo: https://pl.aliexpress.com/item/1005004545962352.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.0.0.5d021c24DkN4GJ&gatewayAdapt=glo2pol.
They are detected by BPI-R3 with 2.5Gbps. Work fine with 1Gbps, will test soon if they achieve the 2.5Gbps.
Tested. Other end with I225-V v3:
[ 5] local 192.168.88.176 port 35442 connected to 192.168.88.122 port 5201
...
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 2.74 GBytes 2.35 Gbits/sec 5082 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 2.73 GBytes 2.35 Gbits/sec receiver
Reverse mode, remote host 192.168.88.122 is sending
[ 5] local 192.168.88.176 port 56636 connected to 192.168.88.122 port 5201
...
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 2.74 GBytes 2.35 Gbits/sec 0 sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 2.73 GBytes 2.35 Gbits/sec receiver
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Only wonder about high retransmitts,do you have flow control enabled on the remote side?
Hi dangowrt!
Would you mind summing up the hardware you have tested with, including which 3G/4G/5G card you used? That is the last part of my shopping list 
How much work is it to get the SIM working with vanilla OpenWrt snapshot? Are there instructions anywhere?
- Banana Pi R3 (you seem to be running revision 1.0)
- 2x TP-LINK TL-SM410U for 2.5 Gb/s (?) ethernet
- MT7921K, AMD RZ608 variant
- M.2 Key M to key A+E converter (seller hebeda at eBay for this and the AMD card?)
Thanks for your awesome work getting vanilla OpenWrt supported for this device!
Any mPCIe module should work. I tried with Quectel EC-25 and Sierra Wireless EM8455 in NGFF->mPCIe adapter. Due to limitation of the mPCIe socket, only up to USB 2.0 speeds are supported, ie. it doesn’t make much sense to buy faster modems because the speed will anyway be limited to ~ 200MBit/s. If you want faster (LTE Cat.12 or 5G) modem, you have to connect it via USB 3.0 or PCIe, both aren’t supported on the mPCIe slot of the R3 (which is USB2.0 + SIM only).
The SIM slot is hard-wired to the modem and doesn’t need anything special to work with OpenWrt. Just install luci-proto-qmi (recommended) or even luci-proto-modemmanager and things work out-of-the-box.
There are generic instructions which work fine also on the R3, details may differ depending on the modem you choose: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wan/wwan/ltedongle
You can also use slightly cheaper ONTi SFP modules which then also support fall-back to 100M/1G speed (SM410U supports 2.5G only): https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004545962352.html
If you are inside the EU, ebay seller hebeda is probably the fastest and safest option. But you can just as well pick a suitable module on AliExpress. The best option is actually to wait for MT7916+MT7976 WiFi 6E modules to be available (because that will be 4T4R and support the hardware offloading features of MT7986 SoC)
hi every morning i have one question when i set openwrt and click save & apply button then use openwrt luci`s reboot it is recovery to not set openwrt how can i fix this bug? or operational problems?
Hello everyone, my name is Andreas and I am a total newbie.
I installed the SD image after that I set something wrong in OpenWrt.
Since then I don’t have a static IP address and I don’t get an address from my router (Fritz!Box) either.
I can’t think of it anymore on Openwrt.
How can I reset the device? the reset button doesn’t seem to work.
thank you for your help
Andrew
After commit 9b482ee22f3f509880d2420652392971eef3211d (kernel: add more fixes for mtk_eth_soc), bridge is not working.
config device
option name 'bridge0'
option type 'bridge'
list ports 'lan1'
list ports 'lan2'
list ports 'lan3'
list ports 'lan4'
config interface 'lan'
option device 'bridge0'
option proto 'static'
option ipaddr '192.168.1.1'
option netmask '255.255.255.0'
option zone 'lan'
I can ping 192.168.1.1, but DHCP is not working and I can´t connect using SSH or HTTPS…
Started to receive these messages too:
[49483.757250] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 1206 sec
[49544.013741] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 1266 sec
[49604.266293] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 1327 sec
[49664.523107] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 1387 sec
[49724.789378] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 1447 sec
[49785.034781] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 1508 sec
[49845.291468] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 1568 sec
[49905.545321] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 1628 sec
[49965.801673] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 1688 sec
[50026.057952] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 1749 sec
[50086.313949] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 1809 sec
[50146.574644] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 1869 sec
[50206.828271] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 1930 sec
[50267.081913] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 1990 sec
[50327.338814] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 2050 sec
[50387.593781] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 2111 sec
[50447.851519] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 2171 sec
[50508.107949] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 2231 sec
[50568.361955] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 2292 sec
[50628.617148] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 2352 sec
[50688.872151] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 2412 sec
[50749.129896] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 2473 sec
[50809.382267] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 2533 sec
[50869.638402] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 2593 sec
[50929.892010] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 2654 sec
[50990.150322] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 2714 sec
[51050.406240] page_pool_release_retry() stalled pool shutdown 20 inflight 2774 sec
If I connect via wifi, everything works fine.
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This commit includes different patches
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=9b482ee22f3f509880d2420652392971eef
Could you try to figure out which one breaks functionality (removing patches one-by-one)?
If I remove 732-14-net-ethernet-mtk_eth_soc-drop-generic-vlan-rx-offloa.patch it works again. I will let the system run for some time to check if the messages are gone…