[fedora-arm] CubieTruck - Wifi

[Hans de Goede]

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?

>> 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.

Regards,

Hans