Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro Wifi7 Router board with Mediatek MT7988A, 8G RAM 8G eMMC, 4x2.5G and 2x10G network port

Banana Pi Router design BPI-R4/BPI-R4 Pro(MT7988)
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Woo, Exciting!
I’m just hoping that once the board is released to the public it won’t have any major hardware flaws.
Also glad to hear that you guys are interested in upstreaming/mainline.

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If all goes reasonably well, this board will break sales records. Once it has OpenWrt support, I’ll definitely buy one.

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Agreed, I’m actually planning to buy 2. A friend of mine wants to improve his networking setup, I’ll gift him one of these. :smile:

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honestly i like problems and that is why i buy dev boards …

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Presale?

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Payment is required now, with shipment in 43 days.

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As far as I understand, shielding the board remains just a dream?

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I pre-ordered one. It’s annoying that neither heat sinks nor cases are currently available to order. I hope they will be available before shipping starts and can then perhaps be added on.

Are there any advantages to pre-ordering from BPI?

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:see_no_evil: …

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Hi, are there any news about this product and the new BE19 wifi card? Thank you

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news here

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How long does it usually take to have a version of OpenWrt for a new router board?

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if its a “new new” board then this can take months (or even longer…), depending how much effort the company and the community is willing to spend. But this should be a quick thing, i assume only the .dtb must be modified as all chips are the same. Maybe @frank-w can say something about that.

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if you need more 5G module support ,please see here:

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I have the board bootable with my kernel,but the mxl switch (probed with daa ports but internal phys not recognized) and the 10g phys not yet working.

With sdk code the mxl switch including phys and the lan-10g phy is working.

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Are you testing already the new R4 Pro with BE19? Do they fix BE14’s Wifi issues?

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I have no actual be19 yet and wifi is later…first baseboard have to work so far. And i do not have professional lab to check for noise or such.I’m also no wifi expert,so i can try to get it basicly working but for specific things we need wifi experts…

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Thank you! I think we should wait late 2026 for new OpenWrt with Wifi7 support and hope the new BE19 will fix the noise problems

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this is a dev board ! … you should never expect production grade quality shielded everywhere apart from if you are complaining of wifi7 it is not supposed to reach on long distances

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Have mxl switch working now with 6.17-main by porting all changes from sdk,not yet tested phys again

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