Getting wifi to work on Cubox-i4Pro / i4x4

[ArmbianCubox-i_User]

Hello all,

 

I've downloaded the Vanilla Jessie (Armbian_5.00_Cubox-i_Debian_jessie_4.4.1.zip) and installed it on my 2 Cubox-i (i4Pro and i4x4). I'd like to get Wi-fi working on both and edited the /etc/network/interfaces file to uncomment and configure wlan0 and rebooted. Unfortunately on both, I'm unable to get Wi-Fi operational.

 

Performing an ifup wlan0 generates the following output:

 

wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start

run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return code 1

Failed to bring up wlan0.

 

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. 

 

Thanks in advance

 

UPDATE: WiFi is now working on both 4x4 and 4Pro following the recent update to 4.5.2

[Igor]

You need to load wireless modules first - they are not added by default since not all boards have wifi chip. Module name is brcmfmac or brcm4329 ...

 

Try first with "modprobe brcmfmac" and check if module was recognized, then proceed to another .... and when it is you add it to /etc/modules and than you can start to fiddle around interfaces.

[ArmbianCubox-i_User]

Igor,

 

Thanks for the response and suggestions. I followed them but still have problems getting this to work. 

 

As suggested, I ran "modprobe brcmfmac" which loaded the module and added brcmfmac to /etc/modules.

 

lsmod returns:

lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by

cpufreq_conservative     4923  0 

cpufreq_powersave        876  0 

cpufreq_stats           2759  0 

cpufreq_userspace       1289  0 

bluetooth             231349  0 

dm_crypt               13513  1 

af_alg                  3898  0 

nfsd                  170855  2 

dm_mod                 65376  2 dm_crypt

sg                     17563  0 

uas                     9794  0 

caam_jr                12324  0 

imx_ipu_v3             33796  0 

caam                    5963  0 

brcmfmac              154271  0 

brcmutil                3997  1 brcmfmac

cfg80211              157970  1 brcmfmac

rfkill                 12201  2 cfg80211,bluetooth

 

I edited the /etc/network/interfaces to "enavble" wlan0 but ifup still returns the following error and wifi is not working:

ifup wlan0

wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start

run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return code 1

Failed to bring up wlan0.

 

/etc/network/interfaces looks like this:

cat /etc/network/interfaces

# 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

iface wlan0 inet dhcp

# wpa-ssid SSID 

# wpa-psk xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

wpa-ssid sketch-wlan

wpa-psk 1ea89bd2335623e66f19bc5b4fbfe810a8207913894d3f010778693720fe69f7

# to generate proper encrypted key: wpa_passphrase yourSSID yourpassword

#

# Local loopback

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

 

dmesg | grep brcm returns

 [   1.033321] brcm_reg: disabling

 

Can you give me any further suggestions?

 

Thanks 

[Igor]

On legacy kernel it works out of the box:

ip link set wlan0 up # switch on
iw wlan0 scan # scan channels

Will checkup 4.x later and post results.

[ArmbianCubox-i_User]

Hello Igor,

 

Did you get a chance to test this on 4.x yet?

[Gymnae]

Just registered to ask the same thing, I have exactly the same issues.

 

Any help would be appreciated

[ArmbianCubox-i_User]

Hi Igor,

 

Did you get a chance to look at this for us?

 

Thanks in advance

[ArmbianCubox-i_User]

WiFi is now working on both 4x4 and 4Pro following the recent update to 4.5.2

 

Thanks