stefi.com Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Hi guys, I bought the orange zero and then I realized how poor wifi. I had some wifi modules from old tablets at home, they are rlt8188eu. After I joined the orange, there was another problem. Wifi driver could not be initialized, because I knew that these modules can operate on orange pc out of box, I began to research the problem. Cause I am linux ZERO, it took me longer time, but I finally found soulution. Problem was in fex file for orange zero, wifi_usbc_type = it´s without parameter, after I added some parameter ( "5" from working orange pc fex), wifi work like a charm. I´m not sure if it´s purpose, or bug, so I write you.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkaiser Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 41 minutes ago, stefi.com said: wifi_usbc_type I started to disable this on the boards with onboard Wi-Fi after I spotted a commit from @jernejin his OpenELEC repo. Totally forgot the commit message but it sounded like a good idea. Maybe he'll comment and then we can add this to documentation or change to some value back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jernej Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 @tkaiser you mean this commit https://github.com/jernejsk/OpenELEC-OPi2/commit/3de7bcdf1adc3886938d2b0220c9e30203a1ef0e ? It doesn't have any detailed message, but IIRC I commented somewhere, probably on github. Anyway, if that parameter has a value, then USB gets probed. Because I changed how the kernel behaves - wifi is always powered on at boot to enable autodetection, this mechanism became redundant and even it could cause troubles, so I disabled it. Of course, wifi driver has to be patched too, where probably issue lies. That's way I added another patch which solves loading rtl8188eu driver: https://github.com/jernejsk/OpenELEC-OPi2/commit/85205e9449a4ff65c967101fbbc736a456afbf2d 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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