[fedora-arm] CubieTruck - Wifi

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 08/19/2015 08:20 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 19-08-15 14:07, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> 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.
>
> http://dl.cubieboard.org/public/Cubieboard/benn/firmware/ap6210/nvram_ap6210.txt 
>

I cannot resolve that fqdn.  I have had this problem in the past with 
dl.cubieboard.org; for some reason it is just not available over here.

>
> And save it as /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43362-sdio.txt

Does that URL tell how to do this?

>
>>
>> Is this patch still needed for F23?  What specific kernel version is 
>> included?  Or do I still have to patch?
>
> Still needed, you still need to manually patch your kernel.
>
>>>> 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.
>
> There are no instructions, these bits are not yet end user ready.
> Once they are things should just work without needing to follow
> any instructions.

Well for now, there is only the one Cubietruck here in testing on this 
subnet.  So I can deal with it.

thanks