Hi, i’m going to receive my R4 in a few weeks ( with the BE14000 Wifi card ), and i’m wondering which release to use.
On the firmware selector of the openwrt project i have a snapshot available, but there is no information about the support of the Wifi7 card, and about the SFP+ 2.5G / 10G BaseT support.
On the wiki page there is several releases of OpenWRT with different versions of the Mediatek SDK ( version 4 and 3.6 for the indicated support of BE14000, and one release wich seems specific for the 2,5G SFP (but no indication of BE14000 on this one). What i disklike a bit about these ones are the base openwrt used for it ( 21 ), and of course the fact that they seem “far” from the snapshot official versions.
Does anyone have a clear vision / understanding of wich version supports what ?
I’ve done some small packaging on the openwrt buildsys already, i know my way around board brings up… looks like i’m going to try and see if the mediatek drivers ( if available as source code) can build with openwrt snapshot then I’ll give it a try and send some feedback
Ok now i face the main roadblock, the proprietary driver kit for the BE14000 seems to only be distributable as a binary so my side project just died ( maybe i’ll try and see if i can build openwrt 23+ with a binary install of the kernel and modules but it looks like a lots of work for something probably very shaky).
Guess i’ll stay on the Sinovip-released versions of OpenWRT until one day be14000 support becomes mainline
I’ll give it a try and send some feedback