Banana Pi BPI-RV2 - Dual Band (B key WiFi)

Banana PI RISC-V Design BPI-RV2 (Siflower SF21H8898)
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Hi,

if you want to use dual band WiFi with the BPI-RV2 you can use a second WiFi module in the B key slot. It works using this adapter:

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Tested with AC and N Atheros WiFi, 5 antennas

# lspci
0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Device 1a0a:abcd (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA986x/988x 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
0001:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Device 1a0a:abcd (rev 01)
0001:01:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

Hope that helps anyone!

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Hi! Unfortunately I was unable to create a separate topic, so I had to answer here.

Banana Pi BPI-RV2 Some mPCIE cards not detected by board

This effect enabled on original firmware on snapshot OpenWrt Image an custom builds. I have more mPCIe cards, but work only somes.

Cards works and detect by board:

Realtek RTL8111 Wired GBps network adapter
Atheros AR9435 802.11b/g/n wireless network adapter
MediaTek MT7612 802.11b/g/n/ac wireless network adapter

Cards not works and not detect by board:

Wallys DR7915 (MediaTek MT7915) 802.11b/g/n/ac/ax DBDC network adapter
Banana BPI-MT7615 (MediaTek MT7615) 802.11b/g/n/ac network adapter

Not working cards perfectly work on another boards: MT7621 with PCIe, Marwell Feroceon 88FR131 and x86 boards. What different PCB desigh RV2 board or software bug?

If possible, please separate this message into another discussion. Thanks.

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Maybe its due to power draw ? Some cards have higher power requirement than others. Some issues were observed with certain NVMe because of that on the B key slot. I suppose the same may apply to the mPCIE slot, but not sure. The mPCIE cards I tested all worked fine.

Make sure your OpenWrt build has the right firmware / drivers enabled !