[fedora-arm] CubieTruck - Wifi

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 08/19/2015 08:31 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 19-08-15 14:28, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
> That is a problem, try using wget from some shell on another box?

All of my boxes have their DNS connections through Comcast.  I don't 
have access to any other DNS servers.  Well I could easily if I knew of 
one that resolved this fqdn.  If someone just gives me the IPv4 addr for 
it, I can go direct that way.  :(

>
>>> And save it as /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43362-sdio.txt
>>
>> Does that URL tell how to do this?
>
> There is nothing to tell, download the file and save it as
> /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43362-sdio.txt on the root
> partition of your cubietruck.

Oh.  I thought when you said nvram I had to permanently some file to my 
board.  This I believe I can handle.  Once I get the file.

thanks