Unsupported WiFI

Venoryk · January 12, 2019 at 2:53 AM

I have 2 Zotac AD04 units with Ralink RT3290 chipset and I attempted to install LibreElec on one tonight but, get no WiFi. After surfing the github, I found a commit where it said the driver was removed. Is there any way to either get it added back in or pointed to a prior version that had it? Thanks in advance.

**chewitt** · January 12, 2019 at 3:59 AM Official Post

And the commit was?

Venoryk · January 12, 2019 at 4:08 AM

firmware: install wifi firmware from linux-firmware, cleanup wlan-fir… by MilhouseVH · Pull Request #1635 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

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and the following files will no longer be installed:
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rt3071.bin
rt3290.bin
rt73.bin
ti-connectivity/LICENCE.ti-connectivity
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Upon Installing and loading into LibreElec.. the Wizard at the beginning shows no networks unless using eth0. After finding that commit, thinking that to be the reasoning.

**chewitt** · January 12, 2019 at 4:27 AM Official Post

Copy the file to /storage/.config/firmware/<filename>.bin and reboot .. check dmesg for error messages about firmware loading.

Venoryk · January 15, 2019 at 2:50 AM

I apologize for the delay in responding.. it's been a hectic weekend... I've SSH'd into the box and did a find rt3290.bin but says no such file. I've also tried to navigate to the spot you said to place it and there's no firmware folder inside of /.config/.

Running dmesg from a fresh install results in

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[    5.738159] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00_set_rt: Info - RT chipset 3290, rev 0003 detected
[    5.764013] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00_set_rf: Info - RF chipset 3290 detected
[    5.772983] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[    5.838140] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading firmware file 'rt3290.bin'
[    5.839042] rt2800pci 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for rt3290.bin failed with error -2
[    5.839049] ieee80211 phy0: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Edit:

After some searching around... I was to download the rt3290.bin to /storage/.config/firmware after making the directory using

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wget https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/plain/rt3290.bin

Rebooted.. and now my WiFi is working. I appreciate your help

**chewitt** · January 15, 2019 at 4:09 AM Official Post

milhouse ^ can we revert the removal or re-add that firmware

sentania · January 21, 2019 at 1:52 AM

another vote for re-adding this.

THis is a built in chip in some of the zotach nano boxes.

Flanigan · January 26, 2019 at 6:31 PM

Hello, i have Zotac id82 and ad02 with this wifi chipset. With rt3290 remove, i can’t upgrade to libreelec 8.2.x, with 8.0.2 wifi is working.

Another vote for re-adding this and benefit latest libreelec version.

Thanks in advance.