BPI-R4: Copper SFP issues

[Daniel Golle]

On 1 August 2024 07:26:35 UTC, Martin Schiller <ms at dev.tdt.de> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I've got some issues bringing up copper SFPs in a BananaPi BPI-R4 runnig
>the latest OpenWrt master. Using the original Firmware pre-installed on
>the BPI-R4 makes the modules work as expected:
>
>I've tested with a HPE J8177C 1GBASE-T module as well as with a FS
>SFP-10G-T module.
>
>Any ideas what could be wrong here?
>
>Here are the debug log outputs:

>[   81.554779] mtk_soc_eth 15100000.ethernet eth2: validation with support 00,00000000,00000000,00000000 failed: -EINVAL
>[   81.565458] sfp sfp1: sfp_add_phy failed: -EINVAL
>[   81.570155] sfp sfp1: SM: exit present:up:fail

Looks like you are simply missing kmod-phy-marvell as well as kmod-phy-marvell-10g. Do you have those driver module packages installed?