Orange Pi Zero - Onboard WiFi

[gerrysweeney]

All,

 

Does anyone know how I can enable the OnBoard Wifi using Armbian? Is there a driver included for for the XR819 on-board WiFi module? any pointers would be much appreciated....

 

Thanks

 

Gerry

[zador.blood.stained]

Mainline kernel? https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/issues/591

[gerrysweeney]

Hi Zador.blood.stained

Ok that would make sense then I am not really a Linux expert so I dont think I could do anything to help, I will have to wait for a future image build that works.  Thank you for your response. 

 

Gerry

[gerrysweeney]

Hi,

I have installed the legacy image (rather than the bleeding edge) and I now have working WiFi and UARTs.  Thank you for your help Zador.blood.stained

 

Gerry

[Brian Greul]

I was able to get it working by following the Raspbian instructions.  It works just fine for me.

[martinayotte]

"Raspbian instructions" ? How Raspbian can support AllWinner XR819 chip ?

[zador.blood.stained]

"Raspbian instructions" ? How Raspbian can support AllWinner XR819 chip ?

Probably some generic userspace related instructions like setting up /etc/network/interfaces. Allwinner specific stuff like xradio kernel module should work out of the box and doesn't need any instructions in stable leleases AFAIK.

[Brian Greul]

** wifi setup

network={

    ssid="The_ESSID_from_earlier"

    psk="Your_wifi_password"

}

** run this

NMTUI

[Brian Greul]

I should point out that NMTUI may do everything you want/need.  So you may need to only run that.