MM8108-EKH19 in the UK, for 802.11s mesh

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Hey, Hi,
I’m new to all this. I’ve worked higher up the stack in mesh products (specifically with data in the application layer (CRDTs etc) for a US mesh networking SDK start-up) but I’ve started branching into some hobbysist hacking that has me curious about the mesh itself. I somehow came across some MM6108-EKH01-05US units. I understand that I cannot use these in the UK, (separate issue, when I tried to use them regardless of what country I select they show as using 5ghz spectrum??)

I am hacking together a quick demo for some friends, and since I have a bunch of pi 4b boards lying around, I wondered if the MM8108-EKH19 is suitable ? I’d need to set up one 802.11s STA node, and one 802.11s gateway (ie. AP+STA) node. Does the USB2.0 product enable that, or do I need to look at the MM8101-EKH01 eval kits, or even the SoC modules for this project?

(I have a load of questions about the EKH01-05US kits, but I can save them for another thread since being in the UK those questions are mainly academic)

Best Regards
Russell

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Oh, it looks like I probably really only want MM8108-RD09, but it doesn’t appear to be available to buy.

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You probably want the MM8108-EKH01-01 (RPI4 + SDIO HAT) or MM8108-EKH19 (Beryl AX + RD09) for now, I’m afraid, or wait for the HaLowLink 2.

Hopefully soon one of our partners will ship a separate USB dongle equivalent to the RD09.

Re ‘showing up as 5GHz’, at the moment our driver pretends to be a 5GHz chip for wider Linux kernel compatibility. If you’re using our provided OpenWrt image, the frontend (and iwinfo, but NOT iw) will display the actual HaLow frequencies.

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