Is it possible to add driver for be14 nic to snapshot opewrt ?
Wifi 7 module showed up on ali in preorder. Since i need three iāll hold lil bit to get it on lower price and since there is some work to do , so no rush.
What store? I looked sinovoip and bpai stores, but said out of stock.
In previous testing, I noticed the eeprom contents (as read by the driver, and my driver has some changes pulled in from upstream mtk owrt trees), appeared to be mostly empty, and also had same MAC address for the two different NICs I was able to buy earlier. I was told by bpi4 folks to use eFUSE. Is that the same thing as what the driver would read as āeepromā?
And, for those of you who have this radio booting, what MAC addrs do you see?
I manually edited the eeprom binary and loaded it from disk and so changed the MAC on my second system, but I am worried that the rest of the radio calibration data is also generic/wrongā¦
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Prices went up it seems. For example was just $13 for the antennas and now itās $22.
Just wait, but also take a look on those pigtais - are them good quality? Iām curious about power loss factor , since i have better one .
Thanks! There is something I donāt understand, in some stores there is text like this:
Just choose a 12V3A power supply for regular use. If you need to use WIFI 7 or 5G module, choose a 12V5A power supply.
Regarding your test in combination with some other tests in the OpenWrt forum I calculate a consumption of 3W idle + 4W peak = 7W maximum for the Wi-Fi 7-card. (+4W idle + 3W SFP+ -copper transceiver) What would make a peak consumption / power supply of 36W necessary let alone one of 60W? Are 5G-cards that power hungry?
5G-cards are not that power hungry (otherwise your phone wouldnāt last long). I think they says that to be 200% sure that you will never have problems and the small cost increase is not a big deal. Anyways Iām powering my R4 with a 65W usb-c charger (20V3.25A).
they do not deliver to Germany 
Hi, is this NIC module available for purchase? I checked both the Sinovoip and Bipai AliExpress stores and both show it to be out of stock. I would like to buy the R4 but I need the NIC module as well.
This chat is full of information about that topic. We talked about that just 2 days ago:
And an even better question is it working ā¦ how good is it working ā¦
Your previous reply advertises a third-party seller fulfilling āpre-ordersā for a āreleaseā on September 9. I do not want to place so-called pre-orders on third-party sellers. I do not trust them to fulfill the order, nor do I wish to wait that long.
The selling of R4 motherboard is going on a long time. The start of selling WiFi7 NIC board took place just some weeks ago! There was a short time were a small amount of the boards were released. Now there are sold out.
āI do not want to place so-called pre-orders on third-party sellersā
ā I had never problems with any seller on AliExpress. But I also would not preorder something. It was to show you that you have to wait ā¦
āI do not trust them to fulfill the order, nor do I wish to wait that long.ā
ā There are relly many people who want that board (including me). Any I also want more than one board ā¦
September are some months ā¦ it is not long to wait. Maybe someone will sell it earlier 
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Iāve just placed my order for card + antennasā¦
It said ābuy nowā (in german) so hopefully itāll be shipped ASAP.
Hmm.
It appears that there are two listings.
One said pre-order, the other (which i chose) does not.
Sadly, it seems this is (another) case of deceptive marketing. Iāve just gone and checked, and dissapointingly, it says it will ship (not arrive) on sept. 09, same as the preorder link.
Disappointing.
I only hope the wifi card works as well as the bpi itself does. Thatās a lot of money to me.
Looks like there were some patches I missed when porting to mainline, but it does not work even after adding those.
@frank-w I build a Debian image using your image builder using bookworm with a 6.10-main kernel. Afterwards I added the firmware from the mediatek git (the _233 suffix versions but also tried the ones from your git just in case) and everything works great (thermals, leds and a quick test of 2x2mimo WiFi 6e on 160MHz iperf3 to my phone goes up to 1.5-1.6Gbps from the previous 1-1.2 on the vendor SDK so basically on par with the old mt7916 cards using the same settings).
However, I noticed something strange in the reported (EHT) capabilities:
- 3x3 MIMO (3NSS) and MCS12-13 is only reported for <=80MHz
- 3x3 MIMO (3NSS) without MCS12-13 is reported for 160MHz
- 320 MHz is not supported at all although Beamfromee SS (320MHz) is 3 and everything else (Non-OFDMA UL MU-MIMO, MU-Beamformer) are supported for 320MHz.
Is that something the firmware reports or something not yet present in the driver/main branch? The sinovoip images/vendor SDK actually only report 2 streams and max NSS in iw is 0 everywhere, and the card still does something, so not sure if that info is critical.
Sorry for the dump but maybe this helps
EHT Iftypes: AP
EHT MAC Capabilities (0x0300):
NSEP priority access Supported
EHT OM Control Supported
EHT PHY Capabilities: (0xea6d92fe20610c7e):
320MHz in 6GHz Supported
NDP With EHT-LTF And 3.2 Āµs GI
SU Beamformer
SU Beamformee
Beamformee SS (80MHz): 3
Beamformee SS (160MHz): 3
Beamformee SS (320MHz): 3
Number Of Sounding Dimensions (80MHz): 2
Number Of Sounding Dimensions (160MHz): 2
Number Of Sounding Dimensions (320MHz): 2
Ng = 16 SU Feedback
Ng = 16 MU Feedback
Codebook size (4, 2) SU Feedback
Codebook size (7, 5) MU Feedback
Triggered SU Beamforming Feedback
Triggered MU Beamforming Partial BW Feedback
Triggered CQI Feedback
Max Nc: 2
Non-Triggered CQI Feedback
Common Nominal Packet Padding: 2
Maximum Number Of Supported EHT-LTFs: 17
Support of MCS 15: 1
Non-OFDMA UL MU-MIMO (80MHz)
Non-OFDMA UL MU-MIMO (160MHz)
Non-OFDMA UL MU-MIMO (320MHz)
MU Beamformer (80MHz)
MU Beamformer (160MHz)
MU Beamformer (320MHz)
EHT MCS/NSS: (0x33333333333333333300000000):
EHT bw <= 80 MHz, max NSS for MCS 8-9: Rx=3, Tx=3
EHT bw <= 80 MHz, max NSS for MCS 10-11: Rx=3, Tx=3
EHT bw <= 80 MHz, max NSS for MCS 12-13: Rx=3, Tx=3
EHT bw=160 MHz, max NSS for MCS 8-9: Rx=3, Tx=3
EHT bw=160 MHz, max NSS for MCS 10-11: Rx=3, Tx=3
EHT bw=160 MHz, max NSS for MCS 12-13: Rx=0, Tx=0
EHT bw=320 MHz, max NSS for MCS 8-9: Rx=0, Tx=0
EHT bw=320 MHz, max NSS for MCS 10-11: Rx=0, Tx=0
EHT bw=320 MHz, max NSS for MCS 12-13: Rx=0, Tx=0