Hi
I see the Framework Laptop 13 on AMD now supports Wi-Fi 7 module. Looks like this is an MTK module - MT7925B22M and is not Wi-Fi Alliance certified (checked the d/b). Since it doesn’t have support for the 320MHz channel widths, it may be why some people are not satisfied with the data rates (in 6GHz).
My question is whether there are other cards which have been tested/validated by the community to work with the AMD platform? I’m hesitant to rely on the MTK card, especially if it hasn’t been through any WFA testing/certification.
I have one on my FW13 AMD7040.
On Windows works perfectly, with MLO dual concurrent bands.
On Fedora (using mainline kernel) works pretty good, still some rough edges, MLO is still a bit unstable.
but on both, 6GHz 320Mhz works and allow me to saturate the 2.5GbE interface of the U7 Pro
I’ve put one in my FW16 too. Works well in general, though my 6GHz reception is pretty poor due to several walls between me and the access point, so I can’t say much about that band.
I got an MT7925 from eBay, I get about 500-600MBps on 6Ghz and roughly 1GBps on MLO. Not the rated 2400MBps mind, but it’s fast enough for me till I upgrade it later.
Reception is fine.
Bluetooth is incredibly buggy even on current RC mainline kernel.
If there’s a better option like the ‘QCNCM865’ as @jookra said, I’d recommend that instead.
That is slower than my ax210 on wifi6 160mhz 5ghz (I get around 1.2Gbit with a 2.5Gbit uplink), do you have walls or something between the ap and the device while testing those speeds?
Well that makes those numbers sound pretty underwhelming. MLO and 6Ghz should be much faster than my 50$ wifi6 non e ap.
Never had any bluetooth issues with the ax210 or the older intel ac one I accidentally had in there for a while (mix up in my pile of wifi cards, was ripping my hair out why it would refuse to do 160mhz channels before I figured out I had the wrong card XD).
The only wifi issues I ever had was in a hotel where it kept switching between aps cause of bad signal which caused constant ping spikes but I think this may be because of the somewhat suboptimal antenna setup in the fw and not the ax210 itself.
I am banking on either the mediatek drivers being up to speed or the be210 being on the market by the time cheap wifi7 aps capable of running openwrt are available.
The be200 is not cnvio it is pcie and it works in all but a relatively small ammount of new-ish amd systems (works on ancient intel systems some older amd ones and the raspberry pi). As fas as I can tell the be200 does something on the pcie level that really offends the soc to the point of either crashing or just shutting down. I am fairly sure that is an unintended bug and not malice.
I think that is not the PCIe on the BE200 that is “offending” AMD systems, I read somewhere that the issues could be something weird on the I2C bus, but I cannot recall where I read this.
I’ve used the AX210 on my FW13, it worked better than the stock mediatek, but it is so “lazy” keeps switching to 5GHz every time that it see a SSID with 1 dbm more signal on 5GHz than 6GHz, which for me was a deal breaker as 5GHz is so crowded.
The Qualcomm WiFi7 is so much better, yes the 6.14 was a tough time, but now on 6.16 is working pretty good, even MLO made an appearance
I think it’s a hardware problem so it’s unlikely that a new UEFI would fix it. The BE200 certainly stopped anything at all appearing on the screen when attempting to boot.
Maybe I’ll have time to try it again on UEFI “BIOS” 3.16.