[Warning] NPi K1 Plus (not Pihole) seems to have trouble with kernel 5.11.1

[guidol]

As a test I updated on a secondary Pihole-Server (buster on NanoPi K1 Plus) the kernel to 5.11.1-dev and at startup Pihole did seem to make some trouble
The server isnt getting to the login prompt and on the serial console the last info is "Starting kernel..."

 

I updated some of my SMB-Servers with kernel 5.11.1-deb without problems.

 

Will later try a new resinstall with buster and 5.11.1 and see if Pihole will run on a complete new installation.

 

[martinayotte]

55 minutes ago, guidol said:

seem to make some trouble

It seems that NanoPi K1 Plus is using rtl8189 WiFi ... Right ?

Driver is broken in 5.11, I'm working on it with other guys, I'm using OPiPC+/OPiLite/OPiPlus2E.

In the mean time, if you don't need WiFi, disable the module :

mv /lib/modules/5.11.1-sunxi/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8189fs/8189fs.ko /lib/modules/5.11.1-sunxi/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8189fs/8189fs.ko-disabled

 

[guidol]

1 minute ago, martinayotte said:

Driver is broken in 5.11, I'm working on it with other guys, I'm using OPiPC+/OPiLite/OPiPlus2E.

In the mean time, if you don't need WiFi, disable the module :

does this prevent from booting up complete? Iam only using ethernet on the NPi K1 Plus

[martinayotte]

Just now, guidol said:

does this prevent from booting up complete?

Yes, and No ... it prevent all networking if WiFi is present, such as running "ifconfig" will hang forever.

Simply move or delete the 8189fs.ko module will prevent that.

[guidol]

1 minute ago, martinayotte said:

Yes, and No ... it prevent all networking if WiFi is present, such as running "ifconfig" will hang forever.

Simply move or delete the 8189fs.ko module will prevent that.

Thanks I will keep that in mind when - in a half hour - do my new install.
I did already wiped the sdcard....if bnot I had checked against this wifi.module

[martinayotte]

16 minutes ago, guidol said:

Thanks I will keep that in mind

I've just done new build with a 8189fs patch, it seems to work on my OPiPC+ ...

I will check other boards this afternoon. Now time to do some snowshows ...

 

[guidol]

I disabled the module on my NPi K1 Plus in the sunxi64 path, but with the new created 5.11.1-dev image the NPi K1 Plus

doenst give me a right login.

It try to give me a automatic login, but there is no prompt and the heartbeat led is blinking very fast
 

Starting kernel ...

nanopik1plus login: root (automatic login)

Last login: Sun Feb 28 15:14:43 UTC 2021 on tty1

Login timed out after 60 seco
nanopik1plus login: root (automatic login)

Last login: Sun Feb 28 15:15:58 UTC 2021 on tty1

Login timed out after 60 s
nanopik1plus login: root (automatic login)

Last login: Sun Feb 28 15:17:13 UTC 2021 on tty1

 

Also no login-prompt at ttys0 (and no more console at Ctrl-Alt-F2 etc)

[guidol]

@martinayotte My OPi One with Pihole & Kernel 5.11.1 does work - so its up to a problem with the NPI K1 Plus ans 5.11.1, but not only the WiFi-module

 

For now I will go back to current (have to check kernel No) with the NPi K1 Plus

[guidol]

NPi K1 Plus is now on current. Started with 5.10.12 and is now after update at 5.10.16 - and all is working again

(I dont use WiFi  )

 

System diagnosis information will now be uploaded to http://ix.io/2RdP

 

[EDIT]

After build-update (u-boot build packages) I did get 5.10.18-trunk:
 

 _   _ ____  _   _  ___   ____  _
| \ | |  _ \(_) | |/ / | |  _ \| |_   _ ___
|  \| | |_) | | | ' /| | | |_) | | | | / __|
| |\  |  __/| | | . \| | |  __/| | |_| \__ \
|_| \_|_|   |_| |_|\_\_| |_|   |_|\__,_|___/

Welcome to Armbian 21.02.2 Buster with Linux 5.10.18-sunxi64

package bsp-kernel[21.05.0-trunk] u-boot[21.05.0-trunk] dtb   [21.05.0-trunk]
firmware          [21.05.0-trunk] config[21.05.0-trunk] branch[current]

 

 

[martinayotte]

5 hours ago, guidol said:

I disabled the module

If you look at the resulting image, maybe the rtl8189fs.ko is still present and broken ...

 

Anyway, I've done builds+tests on all my OPi which using this rtl8189, and results are successful, I've done this commit :

https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/bba53d4644e83cd46b80820b5835ad7c2e7691e5

[guidol]

14 hours ago, martinayotte said:

If you look at the resulting image, maybe the rtl8189fs.ko is still present and broken ...

I disabled the module in the "path" not in the "patch" (corrected this now) - so it shouldnt be present.
Thanks for your commit

[martinayotte]

2 hours ago, guidol said:

Thanks for your commit

I've reverted my commit since now the original github has the changes done directly by CGarces ...