cannot get wireless/BT to work on ECS LIVA-MINI

Twisted714 · November 2, 2017 at 3:23 AM

I am working on getting a ECS LIVA-MINI to work on LibreElec.

It works for the most part very well. Except for the wireless card which is an AzureWave AW-NB136NF - Broadcom BCM43231.

The device works in windows, it also has a linux driver and works in Ubuntu. I am asking how do I add a driver to LibreElec to make this device function. I neveeyed some help here.

I am very new to linux, and I need any instruction you can provide.

It looks like you have had this issue on some android devices and figured it out.

Thanks, your assistance is greatly appreciated.

XaOW

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**chewitt** · November 2, 2017 at 5:48 AM Official Post

Your box has a large number of piracy add-ons installed. No further support will be provided until a clean Kodi debug log is provided that shows them removed.

Twisted714 · November 2, 2017 at 9:48 AM

Done. Fresh install.

ahWT dmesg

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**chewitt** · November 3, 2017 at 5:44 AM Official Post

en:users:drivers:brcm80211 [Linux Wireless] <= states there are no Linux drivers for the BCM43231 chipset so I am interested to know which driver and version is reported in Ubuntu?

Twisted714 · November 3, 2017 at 2:49 PM

i never looked at the dmesg log on ubuntu before, as i said , i am new to linux. it has errors but it works. the log posted below is from an identical unit running 16.04 LTS

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Twisted714 · November 3, 2017 at 3:02 PM

now i will install the driver below on my orignal device with mint linux or ubuntu to see if this driver functions

bcmwl-kernel-source_6.30.223.248+bdcom-0ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb

**chewitt** · November 4, 2017 at 9:49 AM Official Post

run "lsmod" to list the kernel modules active .. but if is "wl" the older broadcom STA driver, we already ship this:

LibreELEC.tv/package.mk at libreelec-8.2 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

so how it works on Ubuntu and not us is a mystery..

Twisted714 · November 5, 2017 at 12:09 AM

i sent lsmod from both devices

liva_ubuntu_lsmod - Pastebin.com Ubuntu lsmod

aBcV libreElec lsmod

**chewitt** · November 5, 2017 at 2:04 PM Official Post

I found two sites that list the AzureWave AW-NB136NF module as having a BCM43142 chip, not BCM43231.

Please run "lspci -nn | paste" and share the URL so I can see the actual device IDs.

Twisted714 · November 5, 2017 at 6:03 PM

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<<===Ubuntu

gBWY <<====libreelec

**chewitt** · November 5, 2017 at 10:15 PM Official Post

Sorry I thought this was some internal device, but nothing shows. Rinse/repeat with "lsusb | paste"

Twisted714 · November 5, 2017 at 10:35 PM

in case you didnt know, the wireless card is connected to NGFF/M2. but you probably know that.

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<<<<<<<ubuntu

dSYh <<<<<<<<<<<<libreelec

Twisted714 · November 5, 2017 at 10:49 PM

look what i found. Im going to put it right here. this is a file called efi-nvram.dat

BootCurrent: 000C

Timeout: 6 seconds

BootOrder: 0000,000B,000C,0003,0004

Boot0000* ubuntu HD(1,GPT,86cb456c-55c8-4ba3-9c6f-ea50569c9f26,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\UBUNTU\SHIMX64.EFI)

Boot0003* UEFI: IPV6 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1c,0x2)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(b8aeed3fb645,0)/IPv6([::]:<->[::]:,0,0)..BO

Boot0004* UEFI: IPV4 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1c,0x2)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(b8aeed3fb645,0)/IPv4(0.0.0.0:0<->0.0.0.0:0,0,0)..BO

Boot000B* ubuntu HD(1,GPT,86cb456c-55c8-4ba3-9c6f-ea50569c9f26,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\UBUNTU\GRUBX64.EFI)

Boot000C* UEFI: PMAP(FAT32) PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x14,0x0)/USB(1,0)/USB(1,0)/HD(1,MBR,0x3985171619,0x1f80,0x776080)..BO

Twisted714 · November 5, 2017 at 10:55 PM

here is lshw run elevated. it contains wireless information

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Twisted714 · November 6, 2017 at 2:43 AM

i was looking at the ECS LIVA drivers site, and i see that there are 2 uart drivers, one of them appears to be bundled with wireless driver.

Twisted714 · November 6, 2017 at 9:17 PM

Chewitt,

how do enter the command to copy a zip file to the /firmware/brcm/ directory? and the command to extract after.

i found a set of instructions that matched the files in ubuntu device. i want to try it out.

thank you for putting with my requests.

**chewitt** · November 7, 2017 at 4:44 AM Official Post

unzip <name of file> unpacks to current directory

put files in /storage/.config/firmware/brcm/ and they are superimposed on /lib/firmware/brcm on reboot

Twisted714 · November 7, 2017 at 4:49 AM

ok. thanks