No WiFi on latest image

[VaRusLAN]

I installed latest Armbian_24.5.1_Orangepi5-plus_bookworm_vendor_6.1.43_minimal.img and I can't get wifi to work. The adapter is RTL8852BE. I installed armbian-firmware-full and the adapter is shown in lspci, but there is no wireless interface. armbian-config does not list wifi as an option. armbianmonitor -u

[VaRusLAN]

Ok, so I saw that wifi works on latest kernel and I decided to give it a try. And now it works! 

I just had to delete vendor packages and install their edge counterparts

armbian-bsp-cli-orangepi5-plus-vendor  -> armbian-bsp-cli-orangepi5-plus-edge
linux-dtb-vendor-rk35xx                -> linux-dtb-edge-rockchip-rk3588
linux-image-vendor-rk35xx              -> linux-image-edge-rockchip-rk3588
linux-u-boot-orangepi5-plus-vendor     -> linux-u-boot-orangepi5-plus-edge

 

[VaRusLAN]

Switching to 6.8 kernel was not the solution. On 6.8 kernel there is a problem with the video and the idle cpu temperature is much higher than on the vendor kernel (44 °C vs 52 °C), so I had to switch back.

I checked kernel binaries on 6.1 and 6.8, and there is no rtw_8852be.ko on 6.1 vendor kernel. 6.1 kernel config does not even mention it. I went to the official linux-orangepi repository, cloned it and found out that there is a support for RTL8852BE, it just needs to be enabled.

I couldn't find how armbian repositories are being populated. Which git repository is being used to build vendor kernel? What revision? If someone could help me find it, I'll add the patch myself.

[Igor]

On 5/31/2024 at 7:43 AM, VaRusLAN said:

I couldn't find how armbian repositories are being populated. Which git repository is being used to build vendor kernel? What revision? If someone could help me find it, I'll add the patch myself.

 

apt.armbian.com is published at point releases, from this branch https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/v24.05 If you check it out, you will get identical what is on stable repository. If you want to go manual way, here https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/v24.05/config/sources/git_sources.json are information about sources.

 

beta.armbian.com is published every x hours from trunk https://github.com/armbian/build

 

If you want to see how this is done, peek into this code.

 

Kernel 6.8 and 6.1 are very very different. Don't expect 6.8 to work better or that all functions will work. Some are not even developed - it is being developed from scratch for around two years now. Code is changing fast, so there is not possible to provide any support. Its too expensive and useless. If you want dig in, but expect troubles and very little response as not many people deal with. 6.1 is different. All 3588 share same problems ... more or less and there is a lot of support in forums.

[Gypsophila .]

https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip/tree/rk-6.1-rkr1/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89

Should be here? I am not sure. I have the same issue about 8852BE

[bolet75]

See this thread, it is possible to add the needed driver from dkms, then WiFi somehow works:

 

[EricaLina]

I have an M5 plus and I have the same problem.  The install script does not list any of the networks available.

I've tried the last two releases of Armbian minimal with the same result.  24.8  and 24.11.

 

I know the wifi works because  I used it to install the mpd utils under opios so that I could erase /dev/mpd0. 

I just checked, it was a kernel 5 image. 

 

I think that it is probably not possible for me to install Armbian as I do not have a wired network available to me.  

I had hoped that network manager, nmcli, nmtui would be available after getting through the initial setup,

but they are not.  Based on the above posts it might not work so well anyway.

 

I'm not sure what to do other than go back and install Opios and go from there.

 

I have now booted from Sdcard into  OPios  1.20, debian/xfce with the 6.1.43 kernel.  The wifi works just fine.

 

I suppose I should try the Armbian Gnome image, although I want that on my computer about as much as I want 

windows on it.

 

Ok, so the latest Armbian 24.11 image,  Noble gnome-kisac-desktop with kernel 6.1.75  works just fine.  It autodetected wifi networks and gave a notification they were available and I used the desktop icon to connect to one

of them.  It wouldn' t  connect to the 5G network, it had authentication issues, but the regular network was just fine.

No problems at all.  Now I just need to de-install all the extra stuff I hate.   At least I'm spared from using Orange Pi os version of debian.

 

I hope this helps someone.  I'm guessing the minimal image must be missing some fundamental things.  I always install minimal Armbian and have not had wifi problems in a very long time.  This is my first Orange pi.

but I have vim3, 4, edgeV, and a Nano PC T4 all running Armbian minimal with Xmonad.