No wireless network with nightly build on Odroid-C2

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    Official 9.0 is very unstable so I tried nightly. Had to dd on the SD card since placing at .update failed with could not mount .tmp/mnt/SYSTEM.

    Anyway, nightly starts quickly but I neither get wired network nor wireless (Comfast Nano with RTL8188EUS, which I suspect to cause the trouble with stable release). Happy to support you with more information.

    Skipped the wizard yesterday but run again with wired connection today and ethernet works. But wireless doesn't.

    lsusb

    >Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter

    And obviously there is no module 8188eu to load.

    • Official Post

    It should be impossible to update from older LE (3.14 kernel) to nightly (mainline kernel) images .. I added an explicit check to detect this and abort:

    LibreELEC.tv/canupdate.sh at master · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

    I haven't been adding the realtek vendor-binary drivers to the LE master branch for Amlogic as I'm typically working on an rc kernel and these things break all the time, but I have enable most of the in-kernel drivers and rtl8188ee should support that device. Can you run "dmesg | paste" when using Ethernet (but with the WiFi device connected) and share the URL, it might me something simple like missing firmware.

    Sorry for late response, didn't receive a reply notification for some reason.

    Here is the system log http://ix.io/2opl and in case you need dmesg it's here

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    >LibreELEC:~ # lsusb

    Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter

    Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0610 Genesys Logic, Inc. 4-port hub

    Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

    >LibreELEC:~ # lsmod

    Module Size Used by

    8021q 40960 0

    rfkill 40960 1

    meson_vdec 81920 0

    ir_nec_decoder 20480 0

    videobuf2_dma_contig 24576 1 meson_vdec

    videobuf2_memops 20480 1 videobuf2_dma_contig

    lima 57344 1

    gpu_sched 36864 1 lima

    rc_odroid 16384 0

    v4l2_mem2mem 45056 1 meson_vdec

    meson_ir 20480 0

    ao_cec 20480 1

    videobuf2_v4l2 36864 2 meson_vdec,v4l2_mem2mem

    videobuf2_common 57344 3 meson_vdec,videobuf2_v4l2,v4l2_mem2mem

    >LibreELEC:~ # ls /lib/modules/5.6.0-rc4/kernel/net/wireless/

    cfg80211.ko

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    It looks like the rtl8188ee driver in the kernel is pci only, not usb, so nothing is showing up. This means you'd need the realtek vendor (not in kernel and breaks on every kernel update) driver .. and we've a long history of refusing to add them because they're a pain in the rear to maintain over time.