Orbsmart RX-01 / Unuiga S905 / Vensmile U1 - Armbian working but need help with Wifi Driver Mapping

[Guest]

Hi all, 

 

I am writing because i took the AMLogic Project to get deeper in Linux. First of all @balbes150 and to every Armbian Developer : GREAT F()/"§! WORK!

I used the " ARMBIAN 5.32 user-built Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS 4.14.0-rc2-next-20170929-amlogics905x"

 

So let's get to the point.

$dmesg | grep brcm 
..
[   10.139138] brcmfmac: F1 signature read @0x18000000=0x16044330
[   10.140995] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_map_chip_to_name: using brcm/brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin for chip 0x004330(17200) rev 0x000004
..

 SO actually this is telling me there is a special wifi driver mapped.

I was not able to find the mapping. Even not in the decompiled dtb .

There it is mapping to 4329 (?!)

 

[Extract from DTB "meson-gxbb-vegas-95-telos.dtb" (decompiled to dts)]

 

 wifi@1 {
                                        reg = <0x1>;
                                        compatible = "brcm,bcm4329-fmac";
                                };

 

 

I need to map it to "fw_bcm40183b2.bin" which is in the /lib/firmware/brcm folder.

I took the "nvram.txt" from the original Android Remix OS 2.0 and renamed it to "fw_bcm40183b2.txt"

 

The only thing i gotta do is to remap the driver and I have no clue where to find it. Sorry for beeing stupid.

 

With a trick I just overwrote the drivers which are mapped with renamed files

-> "fw_bcm40183b2.bin" is now "brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin"

-> "fw_bcm40183b2.txt" is now "brcmfmac4330-sdio.txt"

 

That worked 100% for testing! (After /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa-supplicant.conf AND etc/network/interfaces were adjusted)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 44:2c:05:00:df:3a
          inet addr:192.168.178.106  Bcast:192.168.178.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::462c:5ff:fe00:df3a/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:25617 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:27158 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:9415173 (9.4 MB)  TX bytes:19477541 (19.4 MB)

 But now I wanna map the right driver.

 

Thanks for any help 

 

PS: And after that there is a bunch more of S905 TV boxes, which will run properly with <3 Armbian <3

[ralphmkk61]

Hello Bruce, 

 

sorry I do not have a solution but only some questions:

 

As I use the same box (Orbsmart RX-01) I tried to install Armian on it ... without success, the box allways starts Remix. No errors, as if there is no sd-card inserted.

 

First question: where did you find "ARMBIAN 5.32 user-built Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS 4.14.0-rc2-next-20170929-amlogics905x" ?

Second question: Did you format the sdcard before installing the iso with etcher? Which parameters did you use?

 

Would be nice if you could help me, 

 

Greeting from Germany

Ralph

[ralphmkk61]

Found the answer:  Boot-Mode must be changed - 

 

Download update-tool from here: http://update-backup.apk.black/ and then install aml_autoscript.zip (which is on the sd-card)

I had to start the console (press pin trough the av opening and boot) ... and suddenly it works.

 

Hope this helps others

 

Regards Ralph

[Guest]

9 hours ago, ralphmkk61 said:

Found the answer:  Boot-Mode must be changed - 

 

Download update-tool from here: http://update-backup.apk.black/ and then install aml_autoscript.zip (which is on the sd-card)

I had to start the console (press pin trough the av opening and boot) ... and suddenly it works.

 

Hope this helps others

 

Regards Ralph

Ah thanks - that's exactly what  I wrote you on you youtube ? ! Or are you another Ralph ?  -

 

[ralphmkk61]

Hello Bruce, 

 

yes, that's me at Youtube

Hope it's ok that I posted the solution here I found with your assistance.

 

PS I am still fighting the wlan-problem.