No Wifi on Inovato Quadra (Tanix H6)

  • I just purchased an Inovato Quadro which has an Allwinner H6. I am able to get Libreelec 10.0 booted off of a microsd card but there is no wifi available. Tried the latest nightly build with the same result.

    Wifi is working fine with the stock pre-installed Armbian (running kernel 5.15.59). Any ideas on how to fix this or figure out why the wifi isn't working? Thanks!

  • Thanks! Running lshw -class network on Armbian gives me:

    So I assume it is xradio_wlan 5.15.59-sunxi64?

    Is there a way to patch that driver into an existing LIbreelec image, or to compile my own image with that driver? Thanks again for your help.

    EDIT:

    Digging around a bit looks like source for this driver is available here: https://github.com/fifteenhex/xradio

    And firmware is available here:
    https://github.com/armbian/firmware/tree/master/xr819

    The driver documentation suggests you could compile it and just replace some files to get your linux kernel to load it. Would that be possible to do on an existing libreelec install?

    Edited once, last by druucifer (September 5, 2022 at 7:41 PM).

  • XR819 is planned to be supported by mainline kernel driver (no ETA), so it will be supported by LE too. You can try to use above driver by building your own custom image, but you'll hit usual obstacles with such drivers. This is exactly the reason why we decided against including out of tree (non-mainline) wifi kernel drivers.