BPI-R3 WiFi Driver issues on new default 21.02.0 boards

Hi All, Perhaps someone can throw some light on why out of the box, the WiFi on the R3 does not work. It spews dmesgs messages when I attempt to enable it in LuCI, an example below:

[  454.848527] WiFi@C03L1,WfMcuHwInit() 69: NICLoadRomPatch failed, Status[=0x00000001]
[  454.856260] wdma_dma_ctrl(): WDMA_GLO_CFG=58404e75, txrx = 0
[  454.861910] wdma_dma_ctrl(): WDMA_GLO_CFG=40404e74, txrx = 0
[  454.867562] warp_woctrl_state_to_string(), state: 7
[  454.872426] warp_woctrl_state_to_string(), state: 7
[  454.877291] warp_woctrl_enter_state(), wo_state:3, prev:UNKNOWN, cur:UNKNOWN, req: DISABLE
[  454.885537] warp_woctrl_send_msg_and_wait_cr(), idx:0, state:DISABLE
[  454.891880] warp_woctrl_send_msg_and_wait_cr(): wait for wocpu
[  454.897697] [tmp]warp_woctrl_send_msg_and_wait_cr(): wait for wocpu, value:0, value_done:1
[  455.886156] warp_woctrl_send_msg_and_wait_cr(): wocpu is ready, done_value:1
[  455.901994] wdma_dma_ctrl(): WDMA_GLO_CFG=40404e70, txrx = 0
[  455.907669] WiFi@C01L1,WfInit() 352:  initial faild!! ret=1
[  455.913238] WiFi@C01L1,mt_wifi_init() 511: WfInit faild!!, ret=1, cap=00000000379357b2
[  455.921350] WiFi@C01L1,mt_wifi_init() 694: !!! mt_wifi_init  fail !!!

We can see some driver issues above. I have removed the serial adapter no change, attempted various package upgrades, no change. Secondly, if I install a stable release such as 23.05.0 or 23.05.5 I do not even get an MTK tab at all, no wireless! I am a little surprised given plenty of articles saying how fast it is and on my new boards, of which I have several to pick from, none work out of the box with WiFi. Perhaps its a deeper config issue but with driver messages its seems deeper than a spurious config mistake.

Have you booted without serial connected (removing after boot does not help)? Which adapter do you have? Can you post full bootlog (txt file or pastebin link) with upstream openwrt?

Edit: seems it is an older post edited to come up in my list,sorry.