# MediaTek WiFi on SPI \[Solved\]
**URL:** https://mangoh.discourse.group/t/mediatek-wifi-on-spi-solved/2568
**Category:** mangOH Red
**Created:** [April 18, 2019, 7:51am UTC](https://mangoh.discourse.group/t/mediatek-wifi-on-spi-solved/2568 "2019-04-18T07:51:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@asifarshad](https://mangoh.discourse.group/u/asifarshad)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2019, 7:51am UTC](https://mangoh.discourse.group/t/mediatek-wifi-on-spi-solved/2568/1 "2019-04-18T07:51:12Z")
Has anyone tried using the Wifi using SPI? I can get the Wifi to work with UART but I need this port for some other stuff. I have flashed the WIfi to work using SPI but the init script uses UART. Any help would be appreciated
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### Author:  [@asifarshad](https://mangoh.discourse.group/u/asifarshad)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2019, 5:26am UTC](https://mangoh.discourse.group/t/mediatek-wifi-on-spi-solved/2568/2 "2019-04-19T05:26:51Z")
@asyal anything from your side?
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### Author:  [@dfrey](https://mangoh.discourse.group/u/dfrey)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://mangoh.discourse.group/t/mediatek-wifi-on-spi-solved/2568/3 "2019-04-20T16:42:34Z")
Did you try changing the /etc/network/interfaces section for the wifi interface to pass “spi” instead of “uart” to the mtwifi script? I haven’t used wifi over spi in quite a while, but I did use it at one time. The problem is that the wifi is significantly slower on spi compared to uart.
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### Author:  [@asifarshad](https://mangoh.discourse.group/u/asifarshad)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2019, 6:55am UTC](https://mangoh.discourse.group/t/mediatek-wifi-on-spi-solved/2568/4 "2019-04-22T06:55:56Z")
Thank you. I feel kinda stupid now. Its working
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### Author:  [@c.pahl](https://mangoh.discourse.group/u/c.pahl)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2019, 10:39am UTC](https://mangoh.discourse.group/t/mediatek-wifi-on-spi-solved/2568/5 "2019-04-26T10:39:23Z")
Hello @asifarshad,
> I have flashed the WIfi to work using SPI
could you quickly recap for me what you did to enable Wifi over SPI?
I wanted to try that too, but I’m not sure if/how I have to change the firmware.
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### Author:  [@asifarshad](https://mangoh.discourse.group/u/asifarshad)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2019, 4:10pm UTC](https://mangoh.discourse.group/t/mediatek-wifi-on-spi-solved/2568/6 "2019-04-29T16:10:18Z")
> **[mangOH Red mt7697 WiFi](https://github.com/mangOH/mangOH/wiki/mangOH-Red-mt7697-WiFi)**
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Follow the above steps but change the build files as explained below
> [@Red MT7697 WiFi](https://mangoh.discourse.group/t/red-mt7697-wifi/917/2):
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> Two things to check here: First was the MT7697 built for serial transport. To check goto the GCC/feature.mk and check the SWI\_SPI\_ENABLE (should be = n) and the SWI\_UART\_ENABLE (should be = y). Second insure AT port settings are correct by doing following: on the device run microcom -E /dev/ttyAT execute at!entercnd=“A710” execute at!mapuart=17,1
At the end where you pass uart to wifi in mtwifi script and then scp it to mangoh.
It should work fine
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### Author:  [@asifarshad](https://mangoh.discourse.group/u/asifarshad)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://mangoh.discourse.group/t/mediatek-wifi-on-spi-solved/2568/7 "2019-04-29T16:11:03Z")
Remember for SPI:
SWI\_SPI\_ENABLE (should be = y)
SWI\_UART\_ENABLE (should be = n)
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### Author:  [@c.pahl](https://mangoh.discourse.group/u/c.pahl)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2019, 6:58am UTC](https://mangoh.discourse.group/t/mediatek-wifi-on-spi-solved/2568/8 "2019-04-30T06:58:19Z")
Thank you @asifarshad, that worked indeed! 👍