[ARMBIAN for Amlogic S905 and S905X (ver 5.44 =<)]

On 11/12/2018 at 1:48 PM, dbsharpe said:

Sorry, not familiar with mecool bb2 pro but as a general tip when debugging wifi problems, I found kernel 3.x Armbian builds supported wifi but the 4.x kernels did not work even though a module was loaded.
Having got the correct dtb file, I had a poke around in /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/modalias & uevent
I compared this to what android had and also made sure the files being used by android /lib/firmware/ and Armbian where correct.

 

So how does one know or figure out the correct dtb file to copy up to /boot/dtb.img  ?    Is it purely trial and error?
I'm using this build:  Armbian_5.44_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_mate_20180515.img.   I've modprobe xyz  about everything i could find under /lib/modules/3.14.29/kernel/drivers/amlogic/wifi but no wlan0 i/f will show up.  Some of these KLMs will load and show with lsmod, but no wifi.    I'm motivated to make a donation armbian.com to get the wifi working on this box.   It's the only 8 core box I know for under $100 so this is a great platform to support.

[ARMBIAN for Amlogic S905 and S905X (ver 5.44 =<)]

10 hours ago, dbsharpe said:

Sorry, not familiar with mecool bb2 pro but as a general tip when debugging wifi problems, I found kernel 3.x Armbian builds supported wifi but the 4.x kernels did not work even though a module was loaded.
Having got the correct dtb file, I had a poke around in /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/modalias & uevent
I compared this to what android had and also made sure the files being used by android /lib/firmware/ and Armbian where correct.

 

Fwiw,  I had to use the 3.x kernel to get the mecool bb2 pro s912 to boot.   This build:  Armbian_5.44_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_mate_20180515.img
But no wifi  KLM is loaded for the wireless hardware.   Maybe I need to try another dtb file in that build.

[ARMBIAN for Amlogic S905 and S905X (ver 5.44 =<)]

I have a mecool bb2  pro which is a powerful 8 core s912 box.    I'm using it for real-time FFMPEG transcoding and re-streaming and it's able to do this for HD with this number of core w/o GPU.    The problem I have is I need to make the wifi work on this box.   The install of Armbian is not finding the wifi hardware and installing drivers.   I tried the methods at the top of this post for wifi and none of them work on this box.     Maybe I need to build drivers for it myself?   Does anyone know the wifi chip used on the mecool bb2 pro  and/or if there is a way to detect and dump that info from Armbian command line tools?