[BPI-R2] mt7925

Banana Pi Router design BPI-R2(MT7623N)
1

Debian from Frank , I compiled the kernel myself I’m trying to start wifi on the mt7925 card .

root@bpi-r2:~# inxi -Fxz
System:    Kernel: 6.11.0-rc5-bpi-r2 armv7l bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Console: tty 0 
           Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
Machine:   Type: ARM Device System: Bananapi BPI-R2 details: Mediatek Cortex-A7 rev: N/A serial: N/A 


root@bpi-r2:~# lspci
00:00.0 PCI bridge: MEDIATEK Corp. Device 0801 (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: MEDIATEK Corp. Device 0801 (rev 01)
01:00.0 Network controller: MEDIATEK Corp. Device 7925
02:00.0 IDE interface: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1061 SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)


root@bpi-r2:~# lsmod | grep 79
mt7925e                16384  0
mt7925_common          73728  1 mt7925e
mt792x_lib             28672  2 mt7925_common,mt7925e
mt76_connac_lib        49152  3 mt792x_lib,mt7925_common,mt7925e
mt76                   77824  4 mt792x_lib,mt76_connac_lib,mt7925_common,mt7925e
mac80211              565248  4 mt76,mt792x_lib,mt76_connac_lib,mt7925_common
cfg80211              352256  4 mt76,mac80211,mt76_connac_lib,mt7925_common

root@bpi-r2:/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7925# ls -all
razem 1752
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 09-02 23:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root    4096 09-02 23:09 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root  454959 09-02 23:07 BT_RAM_CODE_MT7925_1_1_hdr.bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root  211040 09-02 23:06 WIFI_MT7925_PATCH_MCU_1_1_hdr.bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1110312 09-02 23:07 WIFI_RAM_CODE_MT7925_1_1.bin


root@bpi-r2:~# dmesg | grep 7925
[    4.033207] pci 0000:01:00.0: [14c3:7925] type 00 class 0x028000 PCIe Endpoint
[   10.428925] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0140 -> 0142)
[   10.610597] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: ASIC revision: 79250000
[   13.768170] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: Message 00000010 (seq 1) timeout
[   13.774399] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: Failed to get patch semaphore
[   16.888157] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: Message 00000010 (seq 2) timeout
[   16.894386] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: Failed to get patch semaphore
[   20.008158] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: Message 00000010 (seq 3) timeout
[   20.014388] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: Failed to get patch semaphore
[   23.128155] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: Message 00000010 (seq 4) timeout
[   23.134381] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: Failed to get patch semaphore
[   26.238155] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: Message 00000010 (seq 5) timeout
[   26.244385] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: Failed to get patch semaphore
[   29.368156] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: Message 00000010 (seq 6) timeout
[   29.374387] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: Failed to get patch semaphore
[   32.488162] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: Message 00000010 (seq 7) timeout
[   32.494391] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: Failed to get patch semaphore
[   35.688159] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: Message 00000010 (seq 8) timeout
[   35.694376] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: Failed to get patch semaphore
[   38.880639] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: Message 00000010 (seq 9) timeout
[   38.886888] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: Failed to get patch semaphore
[   42.088290] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: Message 00000010 (seq 10) timeout
[   42.094662] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: Failed to get patch semaphore
[   42.190917] mt7925e 0000:01:00.0: hardware init failed

how to run it ???

800x600mt7925
800x600mt7925610×813 103 KB

2

seems like driver bug for me, or card draws too much current and hangs till fw init

maybe it can be fixed like mt7996:

but also possible that semaphore was not released in the code-path…then you need to debug the firmware loading code (e.g. with printks).

3

Hi
Frank is it available Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) on R2 ??? or Ubuntu 24.04 .
Is there any instructions on how to build such a system? ( I can try it myself )

4

My images-repo also supports r2…on my gdrive there are prebuilt images (automatic-images folder)

https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1A5S7_82Bg4EYxjzdQ5FKyBw9Qi2C3uK-?sort=13&direction=a

5

thank you, but there is a problem I don’t know how to download the certificates

root@bpi-r2:/etc/apt# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="12"
VERSION="12 (bookworm)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
root@bpi-r2:/etc/apt# 


root@bpi-r2:/etc/apt# cat sources.list
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware non-free-firmware
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware non-free-firmware
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware non-free-firmware
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware non-free-firmware
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware non-free-firmware
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware non-free-firmware
root@bpi-r2:/etc/apt# 


root@bpi-r2:/etc/apt# apt update
Get:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease [48.0 kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease [151 kB]                                          
Ign:3 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_18.x nodistro InRelease                    
Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease [55.4 kB]       
Ign:3 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_18.x nodistro InRelease
Ign:3 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_18.x nodistro InRelease
Err:3 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_18.x nodistro InRelease                                                                                                               
  Certificate verification failed: The certificate is NOT trusted. The certificate chain uses not yet valid certificate.  Could not handshake: Error in the certificate verification. [IP: 104.22.5.26 443]
Reading package lists... Done                                                                                                                                               
E: Release file for http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/bookworm-security/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 87d 20h 2min 8s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.
E: Release file for http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 75d 22h 43min 25s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.
E: Release file for http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm-updates/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 88d 3h 10min 56s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.
6

I guess you need to set your clock,e.g.

date -s "2024-09-12 20:51 CEST"

Just change to your own time(zone) and run apt update again

7

Thank you :grinning: now it works