Banana Pi BPI-R4 BPI-BE14 Wi-Fi7 NIC module

[Betonmischer]

Don’t know what happened, but now encryption works up to WPA3 after booting into a clean stock image.

[Autom8]

Hi, which stock image have you used? I tried the SDK40 Version (BPI-R4-BE1350-WIFI_MP4_0 -SDK-20240620). Without authentication communication is running in 2.4, 5 and 6GHz. But as soon as I switch authentication on (like WPA2PSK, WPA3PSK etc…) connect cannot be established anymore.

[Betonmischer]

This is the same one I use. I can’t remember exactly what I did differently last time that helped, but it was in MKT->WiFi Configuration. Could have been simply pressing ‘Reload’ and ‘Disable/Enable’ after making changes. Current config is attached below. wireless.txt (12.8 KB)

[frank-w]

you should create dedicated threads with the used image…thread is mixed up with general questions, bpi image, mainline openwrt and hard to follow.

[TechExpert]

On the last snapshot I have 6GHz wifi 6E on the ‘soc/11300000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0+1’ device. Its wierd for me, but it work. My config:

Спойлер

config wifi-device 'radio1'
	option type 'mac80211'
	option path 'soc/11300000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0+1'
	option band '6g'
	option channel '53'
	option htmode 'HE160'
	option txpower '100'
	option country 'DE'
	option cell_density '0'
	option disabled '0'

config wifi-iface 'default_radio1'
	option device 'radio1'
	option network 'lan'
	option mode 'ap'
	option ssid 'OpenWrt5'
	option vifidx '1'
	option hidden '0'
	option wmm '1'
	option dtim_period '1'
	option encryption 'owe'
	option rekey_interval '3600'
	option rekey_meth 'DISABLE'
	option ieee8021x '0'
	option ownip '192.168.1.1'
	option disabled '0'

[TechExpert]

Thanks. I tested and got only 36 Mbps iperf3 test. I expected more speed. Something is wrong here because with HE160 I get more than 1.6 Gbps.

It may be a problem with the receiving device. I have a Samsung S24 Ultra. It has Wi-Fi 7 declared as a test one.

[Mathieulh]

I am having speed issues on my Galaxy S24 Ultra too, using the latest image from Banana-PI in WiFi7, oddly enough this is the only device that has this issue, anything else connected to the Banana-PI works fine, including Laptops using BE200 WiFi NICs.

My Galaxy S24 Ultra works fine when I connect it to another (Qualcomm based) WiFi 7 access point, so I am fairly confident this is a bug in the firmware or MT7990 driver running on the Banana-Pi router.

[M10 (M)]

In my case i can set wifi protection wpa2 aes with password and client don’t even ask to provide password, today got second module and antennas from sinovoip, one module not directly from sinovoip was doa… Bpi hang with green led and not boot, no serial console output.