[fedora-arm] CubieTruck - Wifi

[Robert Moskowitz]

Hans, I found your earlier message on this, but it does not give ME 
clear instructions on getting the pieces together:

On 08/06/2015 02:19 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 06-08-15 20:08, Clive Messer wrote:
>> On Thu, 2015-08-06 at 18:04 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>
>>> On Fedora you should just be able to install the appropriate firmware
>>> for the ap6210 driver and have it work, I don't believe Fedora
>>> currently has the ability to redistribute it currently otherwise it
>>> would be in the linux-firmware package which its not.
>>
>> Even with the right firmware available, I'm not sure things have
>> progressed from earlier in the year, where the issues with the brcmfmac
>> driver "stopping" on BPi/Cubietruck, with AP6210 hardware, needed
>> resolution.
>>
>> ISTR, some discussion on the sunxi mailing list about this again
>> recently where they were talking about error recovery on the sdio/mmc
>> side of things.... Not sure any of this made it upstream to the kernel
>> yet.
>>
>> Hans would probably be able to say what should be working now. ;)
>
> When dropping the right nvram file into place, and adding this:
>
> https://github.com/jwrdegoede/linux-sunxi/commit/08c7babbb4bd0f9521a6713799a84349cb9dac92 
>
>
> patch to the kernel the cubietruck wifi should work reliable.
>
> Although this patch fixes things, and is safe, we may end
> up with a slightly different fix upstream, that is currently
> being discussed.

Where is the nvram file described and how to put it in place.

Is this patch still needed for F23?  What specific kernel version is 
included?  Or do I still have to patch?

>
>> NB. I had both a Cubietruck and BananaPro running F22. Both of those I
>> ended up disabling the onboard Broadcom wifi and stuck a dongle in a
>> USB port due to the issues with the brcmfmac driver. Unless Hans can
>> say that the issues are now resolved, I think this is very much a case
>> of "suck it and see". ;)
>
> The issues are now resolved, the cubietruck nvram file should also
> work fine on the bananapro. Hint if you use multiple boards with the
> brcm wifi, edid the MAC in the nvram file, or all systems end up
> with the same MAC, fixing the MAC issue and a solution for distributing
> the nvram file as part of linux-firmware are in my sunxi projects list:
>
> https://revspace.nl/KernelDriverProjects

yuck.  And you finally got a stable, unique MAC address working for the 
Cubietruck (well, last year, but still).

How do I do this?  Where is the instructions.

Thanks for all you have contributed, so us users can be just users.