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Published in 2016-2-8 06:19:22 | Show all floors |Read mode
Has anybody suceeded in setting up backports compat-wireless, compat-drivers ?
http://drvbp1.linux-foundation.org/~mcgrof/rel-html/backports/

The concept is interesting to reuse old devices with the new boards. So far I haven't succeded:
root@OrangePI:/usr/src# cd backports-4.2.6-1

root@OrangePI:/usr/src/backports-4.2.6-1# make defconfig-wifi
cc -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer   -c -o conf.o conf.c
conf.c:6:20: fatal error: locale.h: No such file or directory
#include <locale.h>
                    ^
compilation terminated.
<builtin>: recipe for target 'conf.o' failed
make[2]: *** [conf.o] Error 1
Makefile.real:41: recipe for target 'defconfig-wifi' failed
make[1]: *** [defconfig-wifi] Error 2
Makefile:40: recipe for target 'defconfig-wifi' failed
make: *** [defconfig-wifi] Error 2


I was trying alternatively to build the old driver for RTL-8187
http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=r8187

Errors :
root@OrangePI:/usr/src/rtl8187_linux_26.1010.0622.2006# make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build M=/usr/src/rtl8187_linux_26.1010.0622.2006/beta-8187 modules
make: Entering directory '/usr/src/trunk/linux-3.4'
  CC [M]  /usr/src/rtl8187_linux_26.1010.0622.2006/beta-8187/r8187_core.o
gcc: error: -mfloat-abi=soft and -mfloat-abi=hard may not be used together
scripts/Makefile.build:307: recipe for target '/usr/src/rtl8187_linux_26.1010.0622.2006/beta-8187/r8187_core.o' failed
make[1]: *** [/usr/src/rtl8187_linux_26.1010.0622.2006/beta-8187/r8187_core.o] Error 1
Makefile:1365: recipe for target '_module_/usr/src/rtl8187_linux_26.1010.0622.2006/beta-8187' failed
make: *** [_module_/usr/src/rtl8187_linux_26.1010.0622.2006/beta-8187] Error 2
make: Leaving directory '/usr/src/trunk/linux-3.4'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/trunk/linux-3.4'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/rtl8187_linux_26.1010.0622.2006/beta-8187'

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Published in 2016-2-8 10:05:23 | Show all floors
Before trying any of these could you please try with the latest openelec image and see if your wifi device is detected?

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 Author| Published in 2016-2-9 06:51:37 | Show all floors
What an openelec image is? Where could it be found? I downloaded images from  orangepi.org downloads resource.

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Published in 2016-2-9 19:37:57 | Show all floors
y52 replied at 2016-2-9 06:51
What an openelec image is? Where could it be found? I downloaded images from  orangepi.org downloads ...

from forum,section openelec

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Published in 2016-2-12 19:59:03 | Show all floors
In my humble opinion this is the "Device drivers(GPU&VPU)" section.

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Published in 2016-2-12 22:51:04 | Show all floors
I did compile backports 4.1.1, added the mt7601u too. I had to patch some things and there are a few more kinks to work out still, but it's doable. Newer backports would require a lot more work due to using the new crypto-functions which have not been backported.

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 Author| Published in 2016-2-13 05:00:35 | Show all floors
Could you post the log of your compilation stages?
I was unable to build it on a fresh Debian image. I am more get used to Fedora and Kali and would like to use them instead.
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