How to configure the WIFI, LTE and SDD LED? looking at the relevant DTS section there are not any GPIO associated with the “WIFI” LED.
It should all be inside actual openwrt builds. WiFi LEDs only working with recent mt76. SSD Led flashes on write access,lte Led is connected to mpcie Pin and needs supported modem
WIFI LED are working after they added CONFIG_MT76_LEDS on m76 https://github.com/openwrt/mt76/commit/679254c50f279fe4f1e3ae1fb943f0d1ecdac4ab
You may help me with an sim error i got on my r3 model with an Bus 001 Device 003: ID 2c7c:0800 Quectel RM502Q-AE, installed with a adapter M.2 Key B to Mini PCI-e NGFF M2 “https://es.aliexpress.com/item/1005004251364071.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.5.62d3194dZfPazn&gatewayAdapt=glo2esp”
The issue is that i see the device, it seems to work till the point that it cant find the sim no matter the port i choose it keeps on this error
post moved to new thread: [BPI-R3] Sim error OpenWrt SNAPSHOT, r21666-68f983ba41 003: ID 2c7c:0800 Quectel RM502Q-AE
I have 2 x BPI-R3 with complete of antennas. I can & want to do performance test. Will the test with 2 x R3 show max performance of R3? Can you tell me how to configure boards for such test so that the results will max reliable? Is it enough to upload a ready image?
The SIM slot of the R3 has been verified by many other users by now and we know that it works, also with mPCIe-to-M.2 adapters like the one in your post (both Frank and me have tested with Sierra Wireless EM7455). Hence the problem is a general problem when using this modem with OpenWrt, and you are probably better off asking for help in the OpenWrt forum.
There a simple search for “RM502Q” revealed a couple of threads, this one looks interesting:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/rfc-wwan-uqmi-revamp/141506/5
Or you may try the branch of this user:
Just wanted to report success at getting this OpenWRT image up and running on a Banana Pi R3 v1.1. It took a few late nights to figure it all out, I have many years of experience running OpenWRT from a prepackaged firmware image for a specific model, so this was rather fuller on than that. I got a Quectel EC25-EUX up via QMI, and whilst it isn’t tested in the field yet, it looks good so far.
I noticed in all the forum comments that people have been having problems finding compatible SFP cage devices, so I thought I’d share mine. I specifically wanted 2.5G fibre SFP devices, which are extremely rare, and everybody else here and elsewhere seems to use wired SFP not fibre. After a lot of searching, I found a single vendor of them called Optcore in China, and I took a punt on ordering four of their transceivers with 50m of fibre from them. They were affordable enough, much of the cost was delivery and import duties into the EU.
I am glad to report that they are compatible with this board and with OpenWRT:
[ 5.396857] sfp sfp1: module OPTCORE OSP2488-312DCR rev 10 sn 22I251xxxx dc 220921
[ 5.447841] sfp sfp2: module OPTCORE OSP2488-312DCR rev 10 sn 22I251yyyy dc 220921
[ 10.304586] mt7530 mdio-bus:1f sfp2: Link is Up - 2.5Gbps/Full - flow control off
[ 10.337990] mtk_soc_eth 15100000.ethernet eth1: Link is Up - 2.5Gbps/Full - flow control off
They appear to be exchanging packets just fine, though I haven’t tested them as I have the cable running between both SFP cages. They do get a bit warm after the board has been on for a while, I suspect they consume a full 1 watt each.
Anyway, seeing as nobody else reported working fibre SFP transceiver running at the full 2.5G, I thought I’d report my findings here. Thanks to everybody who made this board happen, and also for creating the repository of answers to questions which I found very useful when setting up this board.
Niall
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OpenWRT 22.03.3 was released this past week and I was disappointed to see that BPI-R3 builds were not included with this release. This may be the wrong place to ask but what does it take to get a supported release build as opposed to relying on snapshot builds?
Edit: it looks like the kernel version in 22.x and supported modules are probably out of date for the BPI-R3. I’ll ask over on the OpenWRT forum, but is there an obvious release-engineering wiki that describes 23.x is targeting?
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Simply speaking: Time.
OpenWrt 23.xx will be branched off once all targets are using Linux 5.15. The progress is being tracked here:
I expect branching to again happen in February or March.
Once there is a branch for the 23.xx release, we will further stabilize things and subsequently publish several release candidates. Once critical bugs identified in the release candidates have been fixed, the official release will follow. This will probably happen around Q3 2023.
(this is not an official statement of the OpenWrt project but rather just the personal prediction of a single project member)
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Hi frank, today i installed the newest open wrt snapshot.
But my LED looked like before:
sys/class/leds:
Did i have to do someting special?
Have you loaded mt76 driver and started hostapd (or whatever openwrt use)?
I used the firmware selector from open wrt:
https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=SNAPSHOT&target=mediatek%2Ffilogic&id=bananapi_bpi-r3
I’m not sure how the development of the Firmware works. I thought the newest version on open wrt could may includes the LED support.
So I have to install this manually … okay 
Thanks
I think the latest SNAPSHOT doesn’t pull the latest mt76. try pulling it manually
Do you solved?
How? I manually update adding kmod-m76 but nothing changed…
Thanks
LED update hasn’t been apply to openwrt, you need to rebuild the firmware with the LED patch.
root@BPI-R3:/# ls /sys/class/leds
blue:status green:status mt76-phy0 mt76-phy1@dangowrt There are many variants for this ONTi SFP.
- RJ45 For Huawei
- RJ45 For CISCO
- RJ45 For Mikrotik
- RJ45 For HP
- RJ45 For H3C
- RJ45 For Dell
- RJ45 For Generic
- RJ45 For Juniper
Do you know which one should we choose for the BPI-R3 (and that will fallback to 1Gbps)?
Also, are these stable? I see Comment #27 mentions stability issues.
Thanks!
Do you know if there’s a plan to get this into OpenWRT natively?
A stupid question… can I use the rj45 1gbs and the sfp rj45 1Gbs WAN ports at the same time to have a 2Gbps connection? This may be really useful for me because I have a 2.5Gbps FTTH and an ONT/router with 1Gbps ethernet LAN ports. I have tested that with a dual NIC on my PC and a sw proxy I can reach near 2Gbps.
@Sandokan The best solution will be use a xpon stick that support 2500Base-X replacing the ONU from the provider. I’m testing the ODI DFP-34X-C2C, It works in my provider but still have a glitch because the eth1/sfp2 port change from 2500base-x to 1000base-x when the stick is connected. If the connections is lower than 940Mb/s there’s no problem. Waiting to see a fix for this (mis)behaviour. Some reference:
Yes, this is a long term solution but currently a bit sperimental, at least with my ISP and his proprietary router with an integrated ONT. In the last months things seems changing but probably in my case the Huawei ONT MA5671A with a custom firmware will be the right choice cause the OLT is Huawei. I also have a separeted Huawei ONT but it is limited by one 1Gbps Rj45 output.
So at the moment I prefer to use the ISP router and the BPI-R3 in cascade. If it is possible teaming the two BPI-R3 WAN a can manage better some peak request. I know that this may not be and ideal solution