ROCK 5B+ - AP mode on RTL8852BE

#1

Hello,

Can anyone confirm if the built in wifi card on the 5B+ fully supports access point mode for 2.4/5ghz on either radxa’s debian image or armbian?

#2

I use Armbian(Bookworm XFCE with radxa’s 5.10 rkr4.1 kernel), so not sure about radxa’s Debian image, but I’ve managed to open AP mode on both 2.4G and 5G using hostapd on my Rock 5B+(RTL8852BE) using Radxa’s rtw89 Wifi driver.

Note that this rtw89 repo is a dkms package that overrides the kernel’s Wifi driver, and I haven’t tested Armbian/radxa kernel’s own rtw89 Wifi driver.

#3

I use Armbian(Bookworm XFCE with radxa’s 5.10 rkr4.1 kernel), so not sure about radxa’s Debian image, but I’ve managed to open AP mode on both 2.4G and 5G using hostapd on my Rock 5B+(RTL8852BE) using Radxa’s rtw89 Wifi driver.

Thank you for your reply!