Orange Pi Zero xradio not working on 24.08

[mc510]

Just ran `apt-get dist-upgrade` on my Orange Pi Zero LTS with Debian minimal Armbian, and wireless network is gone (not shown in armbian-config). Tried downgrading to legacy kernel without success. I have not yet tested 24.08 from a fresh Armbian image; I'm probably going to restore previous 24.05 from a saved backup image. Just sharing this issue in case others see the same thing.

 

No errors in dmesg ...

$ dmesg | grep xradio
[   12.723829] xradio_wlan mmc1:0001:1:    Input buffers: 30 x 1632 bytes
[   12.723867] xradio_wlan mmc1:0001:1: Firmware Label:XR_C01.08.52.58 Jul 19 2018 18:53:57

but wlan0 is unavailable ...

$ nmcli device status
DEVICE  TYPE      STATE                   CONNECTION
end0    ethernet  connected               Wired connection 1
lo      loopback  connected (externally)  lo
wlan0   wifi      unavailable             --

 

Edited September 18 by mc510
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[Werner]

Can you share full logs?

 

Providing logs with 

armbianmonitor -u

 helps with troubleshooting and significantly raises chances that issue gets addressed.

 

 

[mc510]

Thanks for that reminder @Werner, here's armbianmonitor logs https://paste.armbian.com/xeniyaziyo

 

[JRD McLAREN]

check if zz-10-override-wifi-random-mac-disable.conf  zz-20-override-wifi-powersave-disable.conf
exists on /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d directory.

[mc510]

Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately I just wrote over the microsd with the Ubuntu CLI image from https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-zero/ .  Turns out it's 24.11 rolling release, but anyways wifi seems to be just fine on this new image. I think for the time being I'm just going to stick with my old 24.05 Debian CLI rather than reconfigure my whole system from scratch, but good to know that wifi support remains available in newest images.

[robertoj]

In newest Armbians, we are using netplan, instead of NetworkManager

 

https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Networking/

 

Edit a config file

sudo netplan apply

[mc510]

5 hours ago, robertoj said:

In newest Armbians, we are using netplan, instead of NetworkManager

https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Networking/

Edit a config file

sudo netplan apply

 

You can still configure basic wifi connection through armbian-config though, right? Without having to deal directly with netplan?

[robertoj]

I learned netplan recently, because I was unable to use armbian-config or nmtui (the underlying mechanism used by armbian-config)