WiFi not installed on Mini PC using Libreelec

Tv_Addict · April 22, 2021 at 4:14 PM

Hello, I've just installed Libreelec on my MiniPC and everything works perfectly but there is no WiFi. I am forced to use an Ethernet cable instead.

I SSH'd to the box and did the dmesg | pastebinit command and the following link was produced.

http://ix.io/30DG

New link added because the last one pointed to another unknown device.

Even newer link added because I am now using the version that I was told may support my WiFi. The latest beta I believe.

Added new link after creating directories and adding new firmware

Changed directory structure

Redid everything using PuTTY with 21c version and still not working.

**lrusak** · April 22, 2021 at 7:34 PM Official Post

it seems you do have wlan, I'm not sure what this is about though

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[   11.231422] rtl8192eu 3-1:1.0 wlan0_station: renamed from wlan0
[   11.265380] rtl8192eu 3-1:1.0 wlan0_ap: renamed from wlan1



4: wlan0_station: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 1c:bf:ce:c0:a6:b6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: wlan0_ap: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 1e:bf:ce:c0:a6:b6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet XXX.XXX.10.1/24 brd XXX.XXX.10.255 scope global wlan0_ap
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

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maybe jernej knows

**lrusak** · April 22, 2021 at 7:35 PM Official Post

eh, is this even LibreELEC?

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[    0.000000] Linux version 4.19.62-sunxi ([email protected]) (gcc version 7.4.1 20181213 [linaro-7.4-2019.02 revision 56ec6f6b99cc167ff0c2f8e1a2eed33b1edc85d4] (Linaro GCC 7.4-2019.02)) #5.92 SMP Wed Jul 31 22:07:23 CEST 2019

seems odd...

**jernej** · April 22, 2021 at 7:40 PM Official Post

No, it's Armbian, so this should go to their forums and board Orange Pi Zero is not supported here (too little RAM).

Tv_Addict · April 22, 2021 at 8:20 PM

Quote from jernej

No, it's Armbian, so this should go to their forums and board Orange Pi Zero is not supported here (too little RAM).

I don't own any such device. Mine is an Intel MiniPC.

Quote from jernej

No, it's Armbian, so this should go to their forums and board Orange Pi Zero is not supported here (too little RAM).

Quote from lrusak

eh, is this even LibreELEC?

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[    0.000000] Linux version 4.19.62-sunxi ([email protected]) (gcc version 7.4.1 20181213 [linaro-7.4-2019.02 revision 56ec6f6b99cc167ff0c2f8e1a2eed33b1edc85d4] (Linaro GCC 7.4-2019.02)) #5.92 SMP Wed Jul 31 22:07:23 CEST 2019

seems odd...

It is odd because I don't own an Armbian device just this Chinese MiniPC. I've just tried to generate another but it says "key already exists".

I have a Beelink GT King with Coreelec on it I wonder if that was the device. I have done it again and altered the link this time it is an Intel.

**jernej** · April 22, 2021 at 8:32 PM Official Post

yeah, it might be issue with pastebin service.

**mglae** · April 22, 2021 at 10:50 PM

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[    0.648103] pci 0000:04:00.0: [10ec:c821] type 00 class 0x028000

RTL8821CE is supported by kernel 5.9 and later. Use LibreELEC 10.0 BETA 2.

Tv_Addict · April 22, 2021 at 11:20 PM

Quote from mglae
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[    0.648103] pci 0000:04:00.0: [10ec:c821] type 00 class 0x028000
RTL8821CE is supported by kernel 5.9 and later. Use LibreELEC 10.0 BETA 2.

Many thanks I will try that.

Tv_Addict · April 23, 2021 at 12:30 AM

Kodi 19.0 (Linux Kernel 5.10.x) LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.95.2.img.gz

Tried this version and WiFi is still unavailable.

**Klojum** · April 23, 2021 at 5:59 AM Official Post

Post a dmesg listing..?

dmesg | pastebinit

Tv_Addict · April 23, 2021 at 11:39 AM

Quote from Klojum

Post a dmesg listing..?
dmesg | pastebinit

Here is the new information.

http://ix.io/2ZCc

**heitbaum** · April 23, 2021 at 1:24 PM

[ 3.858805] rtw_8821ce 0000:04:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)

[ 3.858844] rtw_8821ce 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for rtw88/rtw8821c_fw.bin failed with error -2

[ 3.858849] rtw_8821ce 0000:04:00.0: failed to request firmware

[ 3.861724] rtw_8821ce 0000:04:00.0: failed to load firmware

[ 3.861727] rtw_8821ce 0000:04:00.0: failed to setup chip efuse info

[ 3.861729] rtw_8821ce 0000:04:00.0: failed to setup chip information

[ 3.866169] rtw_8821ce: probe of 0000:04:00.0 failed with error -22

[ 4.777343] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: examining hci_ver=08 hci_rev=000c lmp_ver=08 lmp_subver=8821

[ 4.778322] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8821c_fw.bin

[ 4.782257] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8821c_config.bin

Missing firmware - rtw8821c_fw.bin

**heitbaum** · April 23, 2021 at 1:29 PM

Grab the firmware from rtw88 - kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git - Repository of firmware blobs for use with the Linux kernel and put it in the firmware directory. https://wiki.libreelec.tv/how-to/add-firmware , rtw88/

Will look at adding this to the next LE10 release - kernel-firmware: add rtw88/rtw8821c_fw.bin to image by heitbaum · Pull Request #5337 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

Please confirm that the firmware does indeed fix your WiFi

Tv_Addict · April 23, 2021 at 1:44 PM

Quote from heitbaum

Grab the firmware from rtw88 - kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git - Repository of firmware blobs for use with the Linux kernel and put it in the firmware directory. https://wiki.libreelec.tv/how-to/add-firmware , rtw88/
Will look at adding this to the next LE10 release.

Thanks, I have browsed the box via Samba but there is no Firmware directory to add the firmware as shown in the how to guide.

The Configfiles directory is there.

**heitbaum** · April 23, 2021 at 1:54 PM

You can safely create the directory and then the rtw88 directory to put the bin file into.

Tv_Addict · April 23, 2021 at 2:32 PM

Quote from heitbaum

Grab the firmware from rtw88 - kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git - Repository of firmware blobs for use with the Linux kernel and put it in the firmware directory. https://wiki.libreelec.tv/how-to/add-firmware , rtw88/
Will look at adding this to the next LE10 release - kernel-firmware: add rtw88/rtw8821c_fw.bin to image by heitbaum · Pull Request #5337 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub
Please confirm that the firmware does indeed fix your WiFi

I made a directory named "firmware" in "Configfiles" and copied "rtw8821c_fw.bin" into that new directory but I must've made a mistake as it still won't work.

**chewitt** · April 23, 2021 at 2:48 PM Official Post

The correct path for the firmware should be /storage/.config/firmware/rtw88/rtw8821c_fw.bin

Tv_Addict · April 23, 2021 at 3:15 PM

Quote from heitbaum

You can safely create the directory and then the rtw88 directory to put the bin file into.

Okay I made a new directory named "rtw88" and put "rtw8821c_fw.bin" into that rebooted and WiFi is still not working.

Did a new link http://ix.io/309V

WiFi not installed on Mini PC using Libreelec

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