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[Janusz Dziedzic]

śr., 17 sty 2024 o 18:15 Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org> napisał(a):
>
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 05:47:26PM +0100, John Crispin wrote:
> >
> > On 17.01.24 17:46, Janusz Dziedzic wrote:
> > > Do you think I can use m.2 A->M converter here and use wifi mt7916 A+E
> > > (6GHz) instead of NVMe?
> > > Eg.https://kamami.pl/akcesoria-do-raspberry-pi/587051-m2-m-key-to-m2-a-key-adapter-m2-m-key-do-m2-a-key.html
> > > Will that work?
> >
> > so the theory but we wont know until we try.
>
> I've tried that on BPi-R3 with MT7921K module, and that worked
> fine. I don't see a reason why it wouldn't work on a very similar
> MediaTek SoC -- we just need to make sure the power budget of the
> M.2 slot is enough for even WiFi modules more power hungry than
> MT7921K (I assume MT7916E wants quite a bit more juice).

Also did test today - bpi-r3 + m2 M -> A adapter + intel ax200.
Seems works fine - hope will be same here, so could extend it and have AX/BE.

root at bpi-r3-os-0014555f4dd7:/# lspci
00:00.0 PCI bridge: MEDIATEK Corp. Device 1f32 (rev 01)
01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 (rev 1a)
root at bpi-r3-os-0014555f4dd7:/#

root at bpi-r3-os-0014555f4dd7:/# dmesg|grep iwl
[   15.693504] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: assign IRQ: got 144
[   15.698560] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[   15.704665] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: enabling bus mastering
[   16.335900] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: api flags index 2 larger than
supported by driver
[   16.343604] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ
Version: 89.3.35.37
[   16.428220] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: loaded firmware version
72.daa05125.0 cc-a0-72.ucode op_mode iwlmvm
[   16.445463] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX200
160MHz, REV=0x340
[   16.587848] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected RF HR B3, rfid=0x10a100
[   16.657202] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: base HW address: 5c:80:b6:fe:0c:b8
root at bpi-r3-os-0014555f4dd7:/#


root at bpi-r3-os-0014555f4dd7:/# ls /sys/class/ieee80211/
phy0  phy1  phy2
root at bpi-r3-os-0014555f4dd7:/

BR
Janusz