Native wifi for OPi-PC?
Edited by Jazzmania at 2016-3-6 02:27Hello,
So far I've only found one distro for OPi that runs wifi right out of the box, jacer's Debian build, but it's a little spotty.From reading the info on Armbian it seems like wifi should work on at least a few different devices.I tried the current Armbian releases of both Debian and Ubuntu on my OPi-PC with an Edimax EW-7811Un dongle (Realtek RTL8188CUS chipset), with all the different drivers available in the "Advanced settings" menu, but when I open the wifi menu it doesn't detect any networks.
I can't get online without wifi (no access to the router), so if I need to download something to make wifi work I'm sunk.Is there some setting I need to change? Any other suggestions?Any other distros that run wifi natively?Otherwise I have a $15 paperweight.
Thanks!
Yeah, on Armbian the build-scripts place the 8192cu.ko kernel-module in the wrong place at the moment, I'll submit a patch for it in a moment. In the meanwhile you can move it from /usr/local/bin/8192cu.ko to /lib/modules/3.4.110-sun8i/kernel/net/wireless/ and run "depmod -a" followed by "modprobe 8192cu" to load the driver for your dongle. After that it should be loaded automatically whenever you plug the dongle in or if it's plugged-in during boot.
Will hopefully be fixed in future-builds of Armbian. WereCatf replied at 2016-3-6 03:36
Yeah, on Armbian the build-scripts place the 8192cu.ko kernel-module in the wrong place at the momen ...
Thanks, WereCatf!I'll give it another go. Edited by hatahata at 2016-3-23 15:40
Jazzmania replied at 2016-3-6 04:49
Thanks, WereCatf!I'll give it another go.
i use wifi repeater insted of usb wifi .
it is chiepabout 15$ .
and
surely it is bigger than usb wifi , but it can be used whenfor example PC is openbsd .
wifi router
192.168.100.254
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|wifi
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repeater----------wifi antena
NIC
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|wired
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NIC
orange pi
wifi repeater is
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ga4fvvtTzQc/VvGYtXwhBMI/AAAAAAAAAyc/TIKjCh5LEhcyXe9cyFDepfckb3IkbKV2w/s1600/CIMG0310.JPG
The complete procedure to get EDIMAX EW-7811UN working on Armbian_ 5.05 is described here :
http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/749-orange-pi-pc-wireless-module-8192cu/
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