Quick User Guide
Power on
Connect MiniPini card to your device via Mini PCie interface and startup your device.
Supported operating systems
- Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS & above.
- OpenWrt 23.05.
General rule: OS kernel needs to be >= 5.19 or use wireless backports >= 6.1.
Setup boarddata files on Mango
First of all firmware with Pine chipset support must be flashed into the Mango. An example firmware with Pine support can be downloaded from here: Example firmware. OpenWRT will contain its default BDF files. Correct BDF files made specificaly for MiniPini are provided by our company, you can download them here: BDF. Please put them into the device and follow the commands on how to change BDF files and active either 2.4GHz or 5GHz radio:
cd /lib/firmware/ath11k/QCN9074 mv board-2.bin board-2.bin.orig
To activate 2G band:
cp /tmp/2G_Temporary_GoldenBin.bin board.bin rmmod ath11k_pci; modprobe ath11k_pci
To activate 5G band:
cp /tmp/5G_Temporary_GoldenBin.bin board.bin rmmod ath11k_pci; modprobe ath11k_pci
Setup boarddata files on Ubuntu/PC
Firmware will contain its default BDF files. File board-2.bin must be removed. Correct BDF files made specificaly for MiniPini are provided by our company, you can download them here: BDF. Please put them into the device and follow the commands on how to change BDF files and active either 2.4GHz or 5GHz radio:
sudo su; cd /lib/firmware/ath11k/hw1.0/QCN9074 rm -f board-2.bin
To activate 2G band:
cp /tmp/2G_Temporary_GoldenBin.bin board.bin rmmod ath11k_pci; modprobe ath11k_pci
To activate 5G band:
cp /tmp/5G_Temporary_GoldenBin.bin board.bin rmmod ath11k_pci; modprobe ath11k_pci
Configure
With default setting your device will be available with tools such as iw
, ip
, ifconfig
, tcpdump
and ready to use. For more tools, configure your own .config
on buildroot.