[SOLVED] Banana [Pi] No WiFi (8192cu driver)

[kevvy]

So I'm back again! - The guy with the Banana Pi's he thought were Banana Pro's.

 

I went and bought one of those stubby little WiFi dongles...fairly generic, Realtek 8192cus...but still (can't believe I'm saying this in public) can't get it up.

I'm super frustrated. My current project with these boards is to set myself up some magical WiFi "security" cameras. Everything else works. Webcam works, "motion" detects and records, a little nodejs app manages some scheduling stuff, ssmtp sends me video recordings....but this blasted WiFi!!

 

Help?

 

I'll comment shortly with some technical details/diagnostic dumps(busy re-writing my backup img from last night), but for now, let me say I've tried a bunch of os-images, with a bunch of guides, and feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall.

[Igor]

Bad luck. You bought the one that needs out of the tree driver

 

You need to block kernel driver and install new driver, check docs.armbian.com "how to build wireless driver"

[kevvy]

Gah! 'course I did! I ordered two more (of two different brands), so they're coming in the mail. I'll get reading in the meantime, thanks for pointing me in the right direction

 

[kevvy]

Huh...that didn't last long...

root@bananapi:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.11.5-sunxi# make scripts
  HOSTCC  scripts/selinux/genheaders/genheaders
scripts/selinux/genheaders/genheaders.c:17:22: fatal error: classmap.h: No such file or directory
 #include "classmap.h"
                      ^
compilation terminated.
scripts/Makefile.host:107: recipe for target 'scripts/selinux/genheaders/genheaders' failed
make[3]: *** [scripts/selinux/genheaders/genheaders] Error 1
scripts/Makefile.build:553: recipe for target 'scripts/selinux/genheaders' failed
make[2]: *** [scripts/selinux/genheaders] Error 2
scripts/Makefile.build:553: recipe for target 'scripts/selinux' failed
make[1]: *** [scripts/selinux] Error 2
Makefile:562: recipe for target 'scripts' failed
make: *** [scripts] Error 2

 

[zador.blood.stained]

On mainline it should work with the in-tree driver. Only firmware may be missing, hard to say without logs.

[kevvy]

Found this thread, tried to follow @Igors instructions there, but "make scripts fails right away:

root@bananapi:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.11.5-sunxi# make headers_check
  CHK     include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl', needed by 'arch/arm/include/generated/uapi/asm/unistd-common.h'.  Stop.
arch/arm/Makefile:316: recipe for target 'archheaders' failed
make: *** [archheaders] Error 2
root@bananapi:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.11.5-sunxi# make ARCH=arm
make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl', needed by 'arch/arm/include/generated/uapi/asm/unistd-common.h'.  Stop.
arch/arm/Makefile:316: recipe for target 'archheaders' failed
make: *** [archheaders] Error 2

 

 

[Igor]

Don't need to build a driver on kernel 4.x  ... dmesg (or better: armbianmonitor -u) and see which firmware is requested. Installing package armbian-firmware-full might solve this issue. 

[kevvy]

armbianmonitor: http://sprunge.us/aMaG

 

Some other logs: https://pastebin.com/h0MCXTWq

 

After that, Pi locked up until I rebooted WITHOUT dongle plugged in

Edited July 24, 2017 by kevvy
More info

[zador.blood.stained]

Kernel packages need to be updated to 5.32.

[kevvy]

As in "apt-get upgrade", or is there something else you mean?

[kevvy]

http://sprunge.us/fHUg - seem better?

[kevvy]

DUUUUUUDE. I COULD KISS YOU!

 

Solved

[xeniter]

@kevvy: How did you solved it?

 

i also get following error:

 

root@lime:/usr/src/linux# make headers_check
  CHK     include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/bin2c
make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl', needed by 'arch/arm/include/generated/uapi/asm/unistd-common.h'.  Stop.
arch/arm/Makefile:319: recipe for target 'archheaders' failed
make: *** [archheaders] Error 2

 

edit:

I commented following lines out in the ./arch/arm/Makefile:

#archheaders:
#       $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=arch/arm/tools uapi

#archprepare:
#       $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=arch/arm/tools kapi

 

maybe not a proper fix, but was till now a working workaround fore me

 

yours,

Manuel