[fedora-arm] CubieTruck - Wifi

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 19-08-15 14:38, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>
> On 08/19/2015 08:31 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 19-08-15 14:28, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>>> 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?
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> 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).

Regards,

Hans