Hi Everyone,
I am new to this scene, I have setup the kit BPI R4 with BE14 WiFi Module, however I can only see 2.4Ghz being broadcasted – I can connect to it but can’t see either 5Ghz or 6Ghz SSIDs I have setup.
I am using the OpenWRT firmware selector for Banana BPI-R4 (snapshot with luci), I had also tried the MTK firmware before (with MTK menu in Luci) but couldn’t get any traction either.
Attaching some screenshots just in case. I noticed lspci returns 7988 while the UI shows the MediaTek as MT996E instead, wonder if that is the issue. Thanks for any feedback/suggestions.
root@OpenWrt:~# lspci
0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: MEDIATEK Corp. Device 7988 (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 Network controller: MEDIATEK Corp. Device 7990
0001:00:00.0 PCI bridge: MEDIATEK Corp. Device 7988 (rev 01)
0001:01:00.0 Network controller: MEDIATEK Corp. Device 7991
root@OpenWrt:~# uci show wireless
wireless.radio0=wifi-device
wireless.radio0.type='mac80211'
wireless.radio0.path='soc/11300000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0'
wireless.radio0.radio='0'
wireless.radio0.band='2g'
wireless.radio0.channel='1'
wireless.radio0.htmode='HE20'
wireless.radio0.cell_density='0'
wireless.default_radio0=wifi-iface
wireless.default_radio0.device='radio0'
wireless.default_radio0.network='lan'
wireless.default_radio0.mode='ap'
wireless.default_radio0.ssid='OpenWrt-2G'
wireless.default_radio0.encryption='psk2'
wireless.default_radio0.key='12345678'
wireless.radio1=wifi-device
wireless.radio1.type='mac80211'
wireless.radio1.path='soc/11300000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0'
wireless.radio1.radio='1'
wireless.radio1.band='5g'
wireless.radio1.channel='36'
wireless.radio1.htmode='HE20'
wireless.radio1.cell_density='0'
wireless.radio1.country='US'
wireless.default_radio1=wifi-iface
wireless.default_radio1.device='radio1'
wireless.default_radio1.network='lan'
wireless.default_radio1.mode='ap'
wireless.default_radio1.ssid='OpenWrt-5G'
wireless.default_radio1.encryption='sae'
wireless.default_radio1.key='12345678'
wireless.default_radio1.ocv='0'
wireless.radio2=wifi-device
wireless.radio2.type='mac80211'
wireless.radio2.path='soc/11300000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/0000:01:00.0'
wireless.radio2.radio='2'
wireless.radio2.htmode='HE20'
wireless.radio2.cell_density='0'
wireless.radio2.band='6g'
wireless.radio2.channel='37'
wireless.radio2.country='US'
wireless.default_radio2=wifi-iface
wireless.default_radio2.device='radio2'
wireless.default_radio2.network='lan'
wireless.default_radio2.mode='ap'
wireless.default_radio2.ssid='OpenWrt-6G'
wireless.default_radio2.encryption='sae'
wireless.default_radio2.key='12345678'
wireless.default_radio2.ocv='0'
root@OpenWrt:/lib/firmware/mediatek# ls -lR
.:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 61 May 6 22:40 mt7988
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 311 May 6 22:40 mt7996
./mt7988:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 107816 May 6 22:40 mt7988_wo_0.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 107752 May 6 22:40 mt7988_wo_1.bin
./mt7996:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191704 May 6 22:40 mt7996_dsp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7680 May 6 22:40 mt7996_eeprom.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7680 May 6 22:40 mt7996_eeprom_233.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7680 May 6 22:40 mt7996_eeprom_233_2i5i6i.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7680 May 6 22:40 mt7996_eeprom_2i5i6i.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23968 May 6 22:40 mt7996_rom_patch.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23968 May 6 22:40 mt7996_rom_patch_233.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 516272 May 6 22:40 mt7996_wa.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 516272 May 6 22:40 mt7996_wa_233.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2622816 May 6 22:40 mt7996_wm.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2620960 May 6 22:40 mt7996_wm_233.bin
root@OpenWrt:/lib/firmware/mediatek#