Wifi is not working on the latest Radxa board

[Dumitru Ciubenco]

Hi All,
I just bought the new Radxa Rock board, I have installed the latest android_ubuntu_dual_boot_update.img  . Now the problem is that WI-FI is working only on Android, when I'm booting the linux WI-FI is not recognized.

Here are some details:

Linux :
root@radxa:~# lsb_release -d
Description:    Linaro 13.09

root@radxa:~# uname -a
Linux radxa 3.0.36+ #4 SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 5 18:01:49 CST 2013 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

Check modules:
root@radxa:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
rk30xxnand_ko         355048  0

root@radxa:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback


root@radxa:~# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

ip6tnl0   no wireless extensions.

root@radxa:~# iwlist scan
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

sit0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

ip6tnl0   Interface doesn't support scanning.



Any help appreciated,
Thank you
Dima

[Peter Mazzarol]

Exactly the same problem here.  Some notes I found that if you load the 8723au kernel module you should see the module in lsmod.  I loaded it and got an extra record:

Bus 002 Device 006: ID 1b1a:0000 <blank>

I really need wireless working on the board and didn't want to resort to plugging in a usb wifi adapter.

Want only linux (lubuntu), I have 3 partitions on the Rock..  /dev/mtdblock0 (17MB) (boot?), /dev/mtdblock1 (2.1GB) (rootfs?)  and /dev/mtdblock2 (5.8G) (spare).  

Using upgrade_tool I loaded RK3188Loader(L)_V1.24.bin and update.img from the rockchip-pack-tools download.

Still no wlan0 device.. :-(  eth0 working well.

Any help would be most appreciated..

Peter.

Brisbane - Australia

[kevin.b...@gmail.com]

My wifi started working yesterday. I am not sure what changed because I am sure it wasn't working the day before. However, it seems very unstable. The board was crashing and rebooting every few minutes until I disabled the wifi. By the way, I am using the latest version of the kernel which I built according to the instructions on cnx-software. I think the images on radxa.com might not include the wifi driver yet.

Kevin

[Tom Cubie]

Hi, Dima

The wifi driver is not included in the default image. You can download
and install the drivers via the following command on RR.

mkdir -p /lib/modules && cd /lib/modules
wget http://dl.radxa.com/rock/images/ubuntu/2013-12-17/3.0.36+.tar.gz
tar zxvf 3.0.36+.tar.gz
rm 3.0.36+.tar.gz

modprobe 8723au

>
> Any help appreciated,
> Thank you
> Dima
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[kirpi4ik]

Thanks Tom,

That solved the problem.

Regards,

Dima

[send2...@gmail.com]

Link is dead. http://dl.radxa.com/rock/images/ubuntu/2013-12-17/3.0.36+.tar.gz

Rohan

[Marco Fina]

Hi,

yes, the file is not available but you can build the modules:

http://wiki.radxa.com/Rock/Booting_Linux

Or I can send the file to you.

Marco

For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[Tom Cubie]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 1:48 PM, <send2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Link is dead. http://dl.radxa.com/rock/images/ubuntu/2013-12-17/3.0.36+.tar.gz
>

Hi, Rohan

The latest firmware should include all the driver modules. As Marco
suggested, you can also build the modules yourself.

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