Banana Pi BPI-R4 Wifi 7 router board with MediaTek MT7988A (Filogic 880),4G RAM and 8G eMMC

Banana Pi Router design BPI-R4(MT7988)
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is there any kind of roadmap/status/overview whats currently in wip and whats done? e.g. wifi, antennas, porting to kernel 6.9, etc.?

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About measured memory bandwidth on R4. I did some research and safe to conclude R4 is good here.

50-ish to 60-ish percent real bandwidth of the theoretical maximum is about the norm on ARM SBCs. For example, look at Raspberry Pi 4 and etc here: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=271121&sid=f771d50be99d55c700cd6aa9a14f36e1

So nothing to do with the memory traces. Nothing to worry about here. :wink:

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Any news about wifi module ?

Take a look at here ā†’ Banana Pi BPI-R4 BPI-BE14 Wi-Fi7 NIC module - #52 by Lee-7723

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Hey friends I recently purchased the WLE600VX (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006980760083.html) wifi card to connect it to my router (banana pi bpi-r4) and the router fails to recognize it. when I run the command ā€œlspciā€ the output return empty. I tried to install the following packages also without success: ath10k-firmware-qca988x kmod-ath10k.

Has anyone managed to solve this case by any chance?

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they are incompatible, see also BPI R4 doesnt detect 2nd PCI card [solved] - #14 by oli

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Please search in forum and do not use general threads for specific peripheral questions.

Ath cards are known not working

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hey. version with 1xstp and 1x2.5gbe with poe is avaible in shop? or must solder yourself?

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you can contact [email protected] ask support

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How to setup or inplement the AFC(Automated Frequency Coordination) in 6GHz? Hardware:Banana pi R4+WiFi7:BPI-R4-NIC-BE14 We have already completed the AFC DUT test Harness on the computer(6 GHz AFC Resources | Wi-Fi Alliance). Is there any information about AFC?

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AFC requires, well, automated frequency coordination. This entails something like running afcd (having it connect to the coordinating organization) and then hostapd (or equivalent) with its support.

Iā€™m not aware of any publicly usable implementations of the former just yet. You have to use the low limits that are allowed without AFC.

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Thanks,your answer is useful to me. Maybe the ā€œafcdā€ is what i want. Like these features:[PATCH v7 1/4] hostapd: afcd: add AFC daemon support (Linux Host AP)

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FYI. A different vendorā€™s board has similar, if not exactly same, traces between MT7988a and memory chips.

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Atheros AR5BXB63 recycled hereā€¦ok, It Is really old, but works fineā€¦ Any info about the official wifi7 nic realase?

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