Router Huawei B593u-12 with Raspberry Pi 3B+ : ethernet ok, no wifi

behpo · September 21, 2018 at 8:01 PM

All other wifi networks are detected, only my router's isn't. It's a LTE modem but I don't see why that would matter.

It works over ethernet.

I can connect wifi with Recalbox on the same hardware. So maybe a missing driver ?

Thanks for reading!

**Klojum** · September 21, 2018 at 8:13 PM Official Post

In general: if you can setup your Kodi device with ethernet, always do. It's much snappier and faster than any wifi connect.

Didn't know Huawei made routers as well...

Also, if you can connect via wifi to a different device, more drivers are not necessary. The Wifi basics are working.

behpo · September 22, 2018 at 12:33 AM

Hey, thanks for the answer.

I prefer ethernet when I can, but in this case I can't. I tried it for troubleshooting only.

Router works

Pi wifi works

but pi won't see router. So strange.

**chewitt** · September 22, 2018 at 4:33 AM Official Post

what wifi channels is the router using?

behpo · September 28, 2018 at 2:22 PM

Sorry I left the raspberry on a shelf for a while.

I'm back at it.

Interesting thing, I'm trying to activate wifi on "plex media player" which is an os based on ... openelec. Guess what: wifi not recognized either.

Wifi works in bootberry and raspbian.

edit: oooh so channel 13 is not used in the US so maybe it's deactivated.

Good guess!

Now I need to figure how to change the location in plex...

**chewitt** · October 2, 2018 at 8:57 AM Official Post

Code

echo "options cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=DE” > /storage/.config/modprobe.d/cfg80211.conf

^ change the regdom country code to whatever you need it to be and then reboot, should work the same on plex embedded too

behpo · October 4, 2018 at 9:44 AM

Thank you!

I'll do this for Plex, and for Libreelec I installed the stable version which works fine (it was easier to install the alpha on bootberry at the time)

edit: upon checking it's more likely because my router is automatically on channel 6 now, so I still might have to change the location