[fedora-arm] CubieTruck - Wifi

[Hans de Goede]

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.

> 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

Regards,

Hans