[Will RTL8189es/fs driver be merged into mainline?]

Just curious, it has exists as patches for years, is there anything prevent it from being merged into mainline? This chip is quite widely used in TV boxes.

[The list of models that are running Armbian (Amlogic, Rockchip, Allwinner etc)]

BestTV R3300-L

CPU: S905L
RAM: Samsung K4B4G1646E-BCMA 512MB * 2 = 1GB
ROM: Samsung KLM8G1WEPD-B031 8GB eMMC * 1 = 8GB
WLAN: RTL8189FTV
USB2.0 * 1, MicroUSB * 1, AV * 1, HDMI * 1, Micro Sdcard Reader * 1, 10/100M eth * 1, IR * 1

 

Sumavision Q7

CPU: S905L
RAM: MIRA P3P4GF4DMF DDR3 512MB * 2 = 1GB
ROM: Micron 29F64G08CBABB * 1 = 8GB
WIFI: RTL8189FTV
AP: SGM8905
USB2.0 * 2, AV * 1, HDMI * 1, Micro Sdcard Reader * 1, 10/100M eth * 1, IR * 1

 

Both booting with Armbian_19.11.3_Aml-g12_bionic_legacy_5.3.0 + meson-gxl-s905x-nexbox-a95x.dtb

 

[Armbian for Amlogic S9xxx kernel 5.x]

On 11/25/2019 at 2:28 PM, balbes150 said:

not support.

I see. Actually the issue is the driver for wireless chip RTL8189FTV is missing. The driver existed in the early versions but was removed. Will it be added back? Or how to do this so that I can build it locally?

Thanks!

 

 

[Armbian for Amlogic S9xxx kernel 5.x]

I downloaded the image Armbian_5.97_Aml-g12_Ubuntu_bionic_default_5.3.0_20190923.img.xz and flashed it to a 16g TF card to run on my R3300-L box (S905L, 1g/8g, RTL8189). The system can boot up but wlan is missing.

Before this version I have tried Armbian_5.44_S9xxx_Ubuntu_bionic_3.14.29_server_20180729.img.xz, which works perfectly with wlan.

I am wondering if there are any operations or commands need to be done to enable the wlan?

So far I have tried modprobe dhd, modprobe wifi_dummy, modprobe wlan, but none works.

 

ps I am using the dtb "meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb"