Bpro-User Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Hi, Thanks for the excellent distribution I noticed that in the hardwareinfo script there is no bananapipro result and when I boot new vanilla 4.5 Kernel the banana.dtb file is used instead of the bananapro.dtb As a result, no wifi, see also last two replies here for similar issue with M1: http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/340-banana-pi-m1plus-no-wifi/?p=2138 Dirty Solution: hardcode loading bananapipro.dtb in boot.cmd. Wifi works This is result of "cat /proc/cpuinfo" processor : 0 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 27.78 Features : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xc07 CPU revision : 4 processor : 1 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 27.78 Features : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xc07 CPU revision : 4 Hardware : Allwinner sun7i (A20) Family Revision : 0000 Serial : 1651660e0881bb28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technik007_cz Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Hi, I installed system on new Banana Pro today and I can only confirm this issue. I installed latest image with 3.4.XXX kernel and upgrade all packages to latest versions kernel included but it did not help. Wifi do not works (known issue with 4.5 image). I do not need help I only confirm this issue ;-). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Which modules are you trying and what the iwconfig tells? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAZArD Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Hi to all of U! Igor, I've the same situation! I'm not a linux guru, but this thing drive me crazy, so please consider in the next release the patch for the wifi. We need it! Thank you for your efforts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 I need very detail information, since I don't have Banana PRO ... based on theory / quick checking it should work I have a very similar board (Cubietruck), which is working fine. Support for this chip is build into all kernels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technik007_cz Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Wifi is working now... I used following commands on my BananaPro board with legacy kernel and Ubuntu Trusty:( Download link of used system image http://mirror.igorpecovnik.com/Armbian_4.5_Bananapi_Ubuntu_trusty_3.4.109_desktop.zip.Note: If this link should be different for BananaPi and for BananaPro it is not my fault :-) ) # based on previous posts I decided return back old kernel version 3.4.109 for bananapi because wifi driver is not working on latest kernel supplied with system imageapt-get purge linux-firmware-image-sun7i -yrm /etc/modules -Rv # apt-get cannot remove this folder during uninstall procedure # removed 20.1. rm /lib/firmware -Rv # apt-get cannot remove this folder during uninstall procedure # added 20.1.aptitude install linux-image-banana linux-headers-banana linux-firmware-image-banana linux-u-boot-bananapi -y rm -v /boot/script.binln -vs /boot/bin/bananapipro.bin /boot/script.bin echo ap6210 >> /etc/modules && cat /etc/modules # generate encrypted wifi password and copy output to clipboardwpa_passphrase yourSSID yourpassword # edit /etc/network/interfaces# remove "#" symbol like you can see in example below# replace "yourSSID" and "yourpassword" with your wifi SSID and ecrypted passwordnano /etc/network/interfaces EXAMPLE:# Wired adapter #1auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp# hwaddress ether # if you want to set MAC manually# pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 mtu 3838 # setting MTU for DHCP, static just: mtu 3838## Wired adapter #2#auto eth1# iface eth1 inet dhcp# hwaddress ether # if you want to set MAC manually# pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 mtu 3838 # setting MTU for DHCP, static just: mtu 3838## Wireless adapter #1auto wlan0 allow-hotplug wlan0 wpa-ssid yourSSID wpa-psk yourpassword# to generate proper encrypted key: wpa_passphrase yourSSID yourpassword## Local loopbackauto lo iface lo inet loopback AND REBOOT and it should work like in my case ;-) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAZArD Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 tonight I'll try this on my device with "Armbian_4.5_Bananapi_Debian_wheezy_4.2.3" Thank U so much for the "step by step" technik007_cz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAZArD Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Wifi is working now... I used following commands on my BananaPro board with legacy kernel and Ubuntu Trusty: ( Download link of used system image http://mirror.igorpecovnik.com/Armbian_4.5_Bananapi_Ubuntu_trusty_3.4.109_desktop.zip. Note: If this link should be different for BananaPi and for BananaPro it is not my fault :-) ) # based on previous posts I decided return back old kernel version 3.4.109 for bananapi because wifi driver is not working on latest kernel supplied with system image apt-get purge linux-firmware-image-sun7i -y rm /etc/modules -Rv # apt-get cannot remove this folder during uninstall procedure aptitude install linux-image-banana linux-headers-banana linux-firmware-image-banana linux-u-boot-bananapi -y rm -v /boot/script.bin ln -vs /boot/bin/bananapipro.bin /boot/script.bin echo ap6210 >> /etc/modules && cat /etc/modules # generate encrypted wifi password and copy output to clipboard wpa_passphrase yourSSID yourpassword # edit /etc/network/interfaces # remove "#" symbol like you can see in example below # replace "yourSSID" and "yourpassword" with your wifi SSID and ecrypted password nano /etc/network/interfaces EXAMPLE: # Wired adapter #1 auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp # hwaddress ether # if you want to set MAC manually # pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 mtu 3838 # setting MTU for DHCP, static just: mtu 3838 # # Wired adapter #2 #auto eth1 # iface eth1 inet dhcp # hwaddress ether # if you want to set MAC manually # pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 mtu 3838 # setting MTU for DHCP, static just: mtu 3838 # # Wireless adapter #1 auto wlan0 allow-hotplug wlan0 wpa-ssid yourSSID wpa-psk yourpassword # to generate proper encrypted key: wpa_passphrase yourSSID yourpassword # # Local loopback auto lo iface lo inet loopback AND REBOOT and it should work like in my case ;-) YEAAAAAAH it works thank U so much technik007_cz w/o your help I would not have ever made even in terms of explanation (I'm referrin' to Igor) thank U again to U too for your efforts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAZArD Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 I said "Victory" too quickly I mean: yes the wlan0 and the eth0 work, but the distro change to legacy ubuntu trusty starting from debian wheezy vanilla. If I copy and past the command: apt-get install linux-image-banana then the bananapi stops to workin' no boot, no reachable should I give up?... :'( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAZArD Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 BEFORE I do apt-get install linux-image-banana root@bananapi:/boot# ls -ltotal 7396drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 11 19:11 bin-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6944 Oct 11 19:10 boot.bmp-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1901 Oct 11 19:11 boot.cmd-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1973 Oct 11 19:11 boot.scr-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115484 Oct 11 14:12 config-4.2.3-sunxidrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 11 19:10 dtblrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Oct 11 19:11 script.bin -> /boot/bin/bananapi.bin-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1955569 Oct 11 14:12 System.map-4.2.3-sunxi-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5468416 Oct 11 14:12 vmlinuz-4.2.3-sunxilrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Oct 11 19:10 zImage -> /boot/vmlinuz-4.2.3-sunxi AFTER I did apt-get install linux-image-banana root@bananapi:/boot# ls -ltotal 12904drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 11 19:11 bin-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6944 Oct 11 19:10 boot.bmp-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1901 Oct 11 19:11 boot.cmd-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1973 Oct 11 19:11 boot.scr-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97535 Sep 30 14:21 config-3.4.109-bananadrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 11 19:10 dtblrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Oct 11 19:11 script.bin -> /boot/bin/bananapi.bin-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2005221 Sep 30 14:21 System.map-3.4.109-banana-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5607544 Sep 30 14:21 vmlinuz-3.4.109-banana-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5468416 Oct 11 14:12 vmlinuz-4.2.3-sunxilrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Jan 20 19:17 zImage -> /boot/vmlinuz-3.4.109-banana I want a headless sys what I can do? someone can help me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 1. All kernels support this wireless chip 2. Support come in three different drivers: bcmdhd, ap6210 and brcmfmac 3. Changing kernel doesn't fix that. You need to manually add appropriate module to /etc/modules 4. You need to setup wireless in interfaces conf. It's disabled by default Use general help: https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse and Google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technik007_cz Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 I said "Victory" too quickly I mean: yes the wlan0 and the eth0 work, but the distro change to legacy ubuntu trusty starting from debian wheezy vanilla. If I copy and past the command: apt-get install linux-image-banana then the bananapi stops to workin' no boot, no reachable should I give up?... :'( I wrote "I used following commands on my BananaPro board with legacy kernel and Ubuntu Trusty:" You need to read http://www.armbian.com/documentation/ before, "How to upgrade kernel?" paragraph and switch kernel before following my guide. I do not want to say you cannot test those commands in different environment (board, kernel, system) but do backup first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technik007_cz Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 BEFORE I do apt-get install linux-image-banana root@bananapi:/boot# ls -l total 7396 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 11 19:11 bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6944 Oct 11 19:10 boot.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1901 Oct 11 19:11 boot.cmd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1973 Oct 11 19:11 boot.scr -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115484 Oct 11 14:12 config-4.2.3-sunxi drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 11 19:10 dtb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Oct 11 19:11 script.bin -> /boot/bin/bananapi.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1955569 Oct 11 14:12 System.map-4.2.3-sunxi -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5468416 Oct 11 14:12 vmlinuz-4.2.3-sunxi lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Oct 11 19:10 zImage -> /boot/vmlinuz-4.2.3-sunxi AFTER I did apt-get install linux-image-banana root@bananapi:/boot# ls -l total 12904 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 11 19:11 bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6944 Oct 11 19:10 boot.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1901 Oct 11 19:11 boot.cmd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1973 Oct 11 19:11 boot.scr -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97535 Sep 30 14:21 config-3.4.109-banana drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 11 19:10 dtb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Oct 11 19:11 script.bin -> /boot/bin/bananapi.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2005221 Sep 30 14:21 System.map-3.4.109-banana -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5607544 Sep 30 14:21 vmlinuz-3.4.109-banana -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5468416 Oct 11 14:12 vmlinuz-4.2.3-sunxi lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Jan 20 19:17 zImage -> /boot/vmlinuz-3.4.109-banana I want a headless sys what I can do? someone can help me? Try "How to unbrick the system?" http://www.armbian.com/documentation/. You will probably need relink zImage back to vmlinuz-4.2.3-sunxi - check it after unbricking. And delete /lib/firmware folder before unbricking. Or sometimes is better to start from beginning ... ;-) (copy new image to sdcard...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAZArD Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 no way armbian is not for me in etc modules I have brcmfmac and bonding wireless setup is ok I can manage it but if I do apt-get install linux-image-banana kernel changes by itself automatically and I lose the connection with the device iwconfig give me this:lo no wireless extensions.eth0 no wireless extensions.bond0 no wireless extensions.tunl0 no wireless extensions.I've already burned a sd card doing always the same thing format&write, format&write, format&write... f&w... etc etc Just for the record I've exactly did what technik007_cz wrote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Slow down, read docs and forum and try to understand how things works. It would be better for you and for us to assist in fixing the problem. Armbian is more or less default Debian / Ubuntu install. I added certain things that makes setup easier but the "plug and play" is done only to certain degree. There are example configurations, that you don't need to start from nothing. Further you need to "read and play" or use already owned knowledge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technik007_cz Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Do not be confused HAZArD... ... because it is not probably your fault ;-). no way armbian is not for me in etc modules I have brcmfmac and bonding wireless setup is ok I can manage it but if I do apt-get install linux-image-banana kernel changes by itself automatically and I lose the connection with the device iwconfig give me this:lo no wireless extensions.eth0 no wireless extensions.bond0 no wireless extensions.tunl0 no wireless extensions.I've already burned a sd card doing always the same thing format&write, format&write, format&write... f&w... etc etc Just for the record I've exactly did what technik007_cz wrote Did you try this image: Armbian_4.5_Bananapi_Ubuntu_trusty_3.4.109_desktop.raw ? Because this is output of /etc/modules in that image after I downloaded it from website: cat /etc/modules # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.## This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.# Parameters can be specified after the module name.hci_uartgpio_sunxirfcommhidpsunxi-irbondingspi_sun7i8021qa20_tp You need image with legacy kernel. (It is possible to swap between kernels if you downloaded vanilla image but it did not work for me in past and I have no time to test it on latest images now). If you are not sure which one are you running try next command: uname -r Output of this command on my bananapro it is now: 3.4.109-banana If you have vanilla kernel number should start with "4" like in this example: 4.2.3... If you see kernel version number 4 it is wrong and download image from link below : http://mirror.igorpecovnik.com/Armbian_4.5_Bananapi_Ubuntu_trusty_3.4.109_desktop.zip If your kernel number start with 3 try next command to upgrade all system packages to latest on your fresh image: apt-get update -y && apt-get upgrade ...and after successful upgrade follow my guide. If you want run your system on vanilla kernel my guide is not for you because this kernel needs different wifi driver than ap6210 at this moment I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAZArD Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Thank U so much technik007_cz I appreciate your encouragement U know I'm so frustrated... Yes with Armbian_4.5_Bananapi_Ubuntu_trusty_3.4.109_desktop.raw everything works but like I said I would have an headless sys 'cause what I need is just a little nas with some plugins. I'll wait the next release hoping that everything is smooth. In the meantime I try&try&try&try until burning the next sd card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAZArD Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Please I'm exhaust... today is the second day w/o sleeping please tell me step by step how activate the wifi I'm totally out I start writing the image on sd card then update & upgrade and then... I'm stuck here which are the commands to write?... for activate the wifi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phier Posted July 12, 2016 Share Posted July 12, 2016 Hi, im getting confused.. whats the point of armbian OS if it doesnt work properly after default install? I have banan pi m1+ and i did default install as per description... i chosen Xenian ubuntu vanila. After initial boot my log is full of messages as : [ 129.562637] brcmfmac: brcmf_sdiod_regrw_helper: failed to write data F1@0x1000a, err: -16[ 129.580018] brcmfmac: brcmf_sdiod_set_sbaddr_window: failed at addr: 0x1000a Those messages are appearing every second or so... Also im surprised that noone reported that issue. Whats the point of that distro then? I tried bananian and everything worked smoothly... Needles to say that i have banana pi m1+ and the board doesnt have yellow PIN ... its black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 There is one note at download page. You have to run few commands to change config and than wifi should work fine. Wrote on mobile phone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudalmasai Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 There is one note at download page. You have to run few commands to change config and than wifi should work fine. Wrote on mobile phone Hi... Im new to this site, I follow the quick star guide from the Banana pi pro page and run those command, but still I not get wlan0 interface... Im in the lastes Vanilla Jessie image, freeshly donwloaded this morning... I have the module brcmfmac propertly loaded in /etc/modules and manually... When I look for this mod I get: brcmfmac 144130 0 brcmutil 4189 1 brcmfmac cfg80211 327843 1 brcmfmac And when look into the dmesg I get: [ 7.742881] brcmfmac mmc1:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac43362-sdio.bin failed with error -2 [ 7.742891] brcmfmac mmc1:0001:1: Falling back to user helper [ 9.939296] brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_htclk: HT Avail timeout (1000000): clkctl 0x50 [ 10.950962] brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_htclk: HT Avail timeout (1000000): clkctl 0x50 Can someone help me to bring in up the wifi? Thanks in advance and sorry for my poor english... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Firmware is missing. Try this: apt-get install armbian-firmware or apt-get install armbian-firmware-full reboot or reload the module in between. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudalmasai Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Firmware is missing. Try this: apt-get install armbian-firmware Thanks, that do the trick... Maybe you can add this to the notes in the download page... Thanks again, have a good day... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Thanks, that do the trick... Maybe you can add this to the notes in the download page... Thanks again, have a good day... Wireless suppose to work out of the box, so we will try to fix it on next build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdampf Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 I'm using Kernel 3.4.113-sun7i (ubuntu) at Banana Pi pro and Wifi is working well out of the box. Unfortunately it isn't switched off, when LAN is connected, so I searched a way to deactivate it manually. Unfortunately, I tried this: sudo nmcli r wifi off That did, what I expected. But after switching back sudo nmcli r wifi on It is not longer able to connect to my WPA2-AP. Syslog shows: Feb 26 22:44:24 localhost wpa_supplicant[779]: nl80211: Could not re-add multicast membership for vendor events: -2 (No such file or directory) Feb 26 22:44:24 localhost wpa_supplicant[779]: dbus: wpa_dbus_get_object_properties: failed to get object properties: (none) none Feb 26 22:44:24 localhost wpa_supplicant[779]: dbus: Failed to construct signal Feb 26 22:44:27 localhost wpa_supplicant[779]: wlan0: Trying to associate with XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (SSID='XYZ123' freq=2437 MHz) Feb 26 22:44:27 localhost wpa_supplicant[779]: wlan0: Associated with XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Feb 26 22:44:27 localhost wpa_supplicant[779]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=COUNTRY_IE type=COUNTRY alpha2=DE Feb 26 22:44:31 localhost wpa_supplicant[779]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX reason=2 Feb 26 22:44:31 localhost wpa_supplicant[779]: wlan0: WPA: 4-Way Handshake failed - pre-shared key may be incorrect Feb 26 22:44:31 localhost wpa_supplicant[779]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SSID-TEMP-DISABLED id=0 ssid="XYZ123" auth_failures=1 duration=10 reason=WRONG_KEY Feb 26 22:44:31 localhost wpa_supplicant[779]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=CORE type=WORLD which says more or less, that the PSK is wrong - but it hasn't changed. Maybe it is related to the message in line 2 above? Any hint is welcome, where I can search to make the link working again without reinstalling the whole system. BR GD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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