Christos Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Ok, Seen that a couple of times on other threads and now happened to me too. Did the latest upgrade and after that no more WiFi dmesg complain about 8192cu bin firmware missing.. Any easy solution? (tried apt-get install firmware-realtek but did not complete, broken) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkaiser Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 Please try an 'apt-get install armbian-firmware-full' and report back. If that solves the problem then splitting firmwares was somehow dangerous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christos Posted October 25, 2016 Author Share Posted October 25, 2016 Reporting, After 'apt-get install armbian-firmware-full' wifi is istalled, the 8192cu-based wifi works ok. The additional driver that installed ok previously, the 8192eu now was not working. Re-installed it via 'make install', but again was not working.. needed a build again and install and then it works this ok too. Christos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christos Posted October 25, 2016 Author Share Posted October 25, 2016 Thomas, It seems I was a bit hasty on checking things. Checked only if the wlan? devices were shown up with ifconfig and iwconfig, which they did. I also get list AP scan. For some reason though, the connection to AP cannot be done anymore!! Not with the 8192cu who worked right from the first time.. It seems that the only solution after that last apt-get upgrade is (at least for me) to start with a fresh new build. (!!) P.S. ..strangely enough, though, the 8192eu does work and connect ok.. could be because a build and install happens after the upgrade.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christos Posted October 25, 2016 Author Share Posted October 25, 2016 Update. Performed the apt-get upgrade on my two NEOs and the results were the above. Also performed the apt-get upgrade on a lets say 'clean' system, my OPi ONE having only the 8192cu and now this wifi has also stopped working. Placed the armbian-firmware-full but again although the wlan? devices are visible, no connection can be made to an AP. It looks like the latest apt-get upgrade makes all the 8192cu (those that worked ok so far) to simply not work anymore even after apt-get install armbian-firmware-full. I do not know if using a newly build image (5.23) could fix that.. will check. P.S. Checked, Fresh/stock Armbian 5.23 jessie 3.4.112 [ 103.536361] ehci_irq: highspeed device connect [ 103.550084] ehci_irq: highspeed device connect [ 103.800113] usb 3-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using sunxi-ehci [ 104.047686] rtl8192cu: Chip version 0x10 [ 104.143766] rtl8192cu: MAC address: e8:4e:06:26:ba:70 [ 104.154995] rtl8192cu: Board Type 0 [ 104.164760] rtlwifi: rx_max_size 15360, rx_urb_num 8, in_ep 1 [ 104.176796] rtl8192cu: Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin [ 104.189246] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8192cu [ 104.201378] rtlwifi: Firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin not available Now Not working. This exact wifi driver was working out of the box before the upgrade time, so something has gone the wrong way in commits.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 rtlwifi: Firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin not available It's obvious that firmware is missing. Just get this file and place it into /lib/firmware and it will work. It looks like there are three different versions: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/rtlwifi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christos Posted October 27, 2016 Author Share Posted October 27, 2016 Lets continue this here -> http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/2720-apt-get-upgrade-on-new-armbian-523-breaks-some-wifi-drivers/?p=18579 BTW, everything looks ok now in Armbian 5.24 (jessie 3.4.112) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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