Installation of WIFI Drivers in Base Android x86

[Ameya Soman]

I have installed Android Oreo x86 on my laptop HDD. I dual boot between Android and Windows. But in the Android System, I am unable to connect with my WIFI network and it seems that the system does not have any drivers. But when I boot Android x86 in debugging mode from the image in the Flash Drive, I can connect to my network. How can I get the drivers in the HDD ROM?

[Chih-Wei Huang]

Did you mean the WIFI works in debug mode
but not in the normal mode? If yes,
it's the first time I heard that.

The driver loading methods are a little different
between debug mode and normal mode.
You may try to add AUTO_LOAD=old
to cmdline to see if it makes any difference.


--
Chih-Wei
Android-x86 project
http://www.android-x86.org

[Ameya Soman]

Basically I have two PCs

I noticed that WIFI drivers work well in debug mode live USB ROM in one of my laptop. Due to storage constraints, I can't see if it works with the HDD installed ROM as well.

On the other hand, WIFI drivers are never loaded in my second laptop which has features such as touch, two in one tablet pc. Drivers don't load in either debug mode and live mode. I have also installed the ROM on my HDD. But the drivers are still not installed.

[Chih-Wei Huang]

2018-07-24 2:59 GMT+08:00 Ameya Soman <soman...@gmail.com>:
> Basically I have two PCs
>
> I noticed that WIFI drivers work well in debug mode live USB ROM in one of
> my laptop. Due to storage constraints, I can't see if it works with the HDD
> installed ROM as well.
>
> On the other hand, WIFI drivers are never loaded in my second laptop which
> has features such as touch, two in one tablet pc. Drivers don't load in
> either debug mode and live mode. I have also installed the ROM on my HDD.
> But the drivers are still not installed.

Obviously the two PCs have different WIFI cards and
the second doesn't have a driver in android-x86 image.

Check the WIFI card info (vendor, pci/usb id, etc)
and try to google if it has a linux driver.

[Luca Barbato]

looks like the selinux policies are missing the wpa_supplicant support.