Hi,
On 19-08-15 14:07, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Hans, I found your earlier message on this, but it does not give ME clear instructions on getting the pieces together:
On 08/06/2015 02:19 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi,
On 06-08-15 20:08, Clive Messer wrote:
On Thu, 2015-08-06 at 18:04 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
On Fedora you should just be able to install the appropriate firmware
for the ap6210 driver and have it work, I don't believe Fedora
currently has the ability to redistribute it currently otherwise it
would be in the linux-firmware package which its not.
Even with the right firmware available, I'm not sure things have
progressed from earlier in the year, where the issues with the brcmfmac
driver "stopping" on BPi/Cubietruck, with AP6210 hardware, needed
resolution.
ISTR, some discussion on the sunxi mailing list about this again
recently where they were talking about error recovery on the sdio/mmc
side of things.... Not sure any of this made it upstream to the kernel
yet.
Hans would probably be able to say what should be working now. ;)
When dropping the right nvram file into place, and adding this:
https://github.com/jwrdegoede/linux-sunxi/commit/08c7babbb4bd0f9521a6713799a84349cb9dac92
patch to the kernel the cubietruck wifi should work reliable.
Although this patch fixes things, and is safe, we may end
up with a slightly different fix upstream, that is currently
being discussed.
Where is the nvram file described and how to put it in place.
http://dl.cubieboard.org/public/Cubieboard/benn/firmware/ap6210/nvram_ap6210.txt
And save it as /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43362-sdio.txt
Is this patch still needed for F23? What specific kernel version is included? Or do I still have to patch?
Still needed, you still need to manually patch your kernel.
NB. I had both a Cubietruck and BananaPro running F22. Both of those I
ended up disabling the onboard Broadcom wifi and stuck a dongle in a
USB port due to the issues with the brcmfmac driver. Unless Hans can
say that the issues are now resolved, I think this is very much a case
of "suck it and see". ;)
The issues are now resolved, the cubietruck nvram file should also
work fine on the bananapro. Hint if you use multiple boards with the
brcm wifi, edid the MAC in the nvram file, or all systems end up
with the same MAC, fixing the MAC issue and a solution for distributing
the nvram file as part of linux-firmware are in my sunxi projects list:
https://revspace.nl/KernelDriverProjects
yuck. And you finally got a stable, unique MAC address working for the Cubietruck (well, last year, but still).
How do I do this? Where is the instructions.
There are no instructions, these bits are not yet end user ready.
Once they are things should just work without needing to follow
any instructions.
Regards,
Hans
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