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

Twisted714 · November 27, 2017 at 11:38 PM

here is the new from a fresh hard reset, log showing on the last line the brcmfmac driver.

bjgV and last line in dmesg HjaK

**chewitt** · November 28, 2017 at 4:44 AM Official Post

So it worked?

I'm not too interested in adding the txt files to our main distro as the driver-named file is not enough and I'd be concerned that the brcmfmac-sdio named files will conflict with other brcmfmac devices. I'd ask you to test a current milhouse release as well, as those will have newer kernels with newer versions of the brcmfmac driver. Plan C .. you need to learn how to self-compile an image to repeat the process I did (which is trivial).

Twisted714 · November 28, 2017 at 7:08 AM

ive been studying that. i have an i5 setup with ubuntu, but i think i like linux mint better. i cannot figure out how to introduce the parts of the build.

i dont suppose i will be able to use make and makefile to add the the pieces?

thanks

**nickr** · November 28, 2017 at 7:14 AM Official Post

Yes of course you can use make in mint.

Twisted714 · November 28, 2017 at 8:20 AM

and it just sort of showed up. cannot get iw anything its not fully activated

here is the script they say to use to fix the kernal. i did not need to use it in mint.

updateKernelTo4.1.sh

Bash

#!/bin/sh

mkdir ~/Downloads/kernel\ 4.1/

cd ~/Downloads/kernel\ 4.1/

sudo wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.1.1-unstable/linux-headers-4.1.1-040101-generic_4.1.1-040101.201507030635_amd64.deb

wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.1.1-unstable/linux-headers-4.1.1-040101_4.1.1-040101.201507030635_all.deb

wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.1.1-unstable/linux-image-4.1.1-040101-generic_4.1.1-040101.201507030635_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.1*.deb linux-image-4.1*.deb

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is this right way to do this?

**chewitt** · November 28, 2017 at 8:42 AM Official Post

No idea, but we're not going to debug Linux mint issues here. It's really not our forté.

Twisted714 · November 28, 2017 at 6:31 PM

i have a crazy question, i am at start compiling, followed the instructions, maybe i missed something.

where do I put the files that i need to be compiled? At what point do I tell the machine what to put in the recipe ?

**nickr** · November 29, 2017 at 5:47 AM Official Post

Please read post 42.

Twisted714 · November 29, 2017 at 8:01 AM

i am not working mint. i am working libre, as i have for the last few weeks. i had a sample script, i wanted to know if they were similar commands

**chewitt** · November 29, 2017 at 8:08 AM Official Post

You cannot update the running kernel from the console in LE, it has to be done via the build-system and baked into the OS image.

Twisted714 · November 29, 2017 at 8:56 AM

i understand that. that's why i decided to kill a few hours pulling from the git. but it doesn't tell you how to stack, mix or match the parts. is there a primer, some guide somewhere, besides the wiki that doesn't tell me how to import the files?

**chewitt** · November 29, 2017 at 2:08 PM Official Post

Put the three files in projects/Generic/filesystem/usr/lib/firmware/brcm/ .. create folders as required. The filesystem folder is a hack vs. properly modifying the sources of something, but it's the most expedient option for something this simple.

crays · February 25, 2018 at 5:48 PM

Just installed on my Liva - can you tell me how you got the Wifi/Bluetooth working?