[fedora-arm] Partial Success - Re: CubieTruck - Wifi

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 08/19/2015 08:40 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 19-08-15 14:38, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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.  :(
>
> The IP is 192.163.232.151 you will have to put this in
> your /etc/hosts though, going there directly does not work
> (it likely is a vhost).

Got the file and put it where you said.  Booted up.  I am using the Xfce 
image and used NetworkManager to connect to my wife and:

3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel 
state UP gr0
     link/ether 98:3b:16:1e:e1:e0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
     inet 192.168.160.24/24 brd 192.168.160.255 scope global dynamic wlan0
        valid_lft 86384sec preferred_lft 86384sec
     inet6 fe80::9a3b:16ff:fe1e:e1e0/64 scope link
        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

But NetworkManger crashed...  And I did not apply the kernel patch per:

https://github.com/jwrdegoede/linux-sunxi/commit/08c7babbb4bd0f9521a6713799a84349cb9dac92

I have looked at that message.  I can't remember when I last did a 
kernel patch myself, so I need a bit more assistance that from this 
message to do the patch...

thanks.