TV-Stick - wifi detected but always wrong key

mune · August 22, 2023 at 1:58 PM

Hi all

I found an old (6/7 years) TV-stick in the basement (Intel Atom CPU). I decide to use it.

Originally it has windows 10.

I installed Kodi on it but it wasn't possible to activate the kiosk mode so the user has to wait for windows to boot up and then had to start kodi with the mouse.

That meant you had to have a keyboard/mouse laying around in the living room.

Instead, thank to the CEC protocol in the HDMI standard, if kodi starts on boot the user can interact with kodi with the TV remote control.

For this I decided to use LibreELEC.

I installed the image LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-11.0.3.img, everything was fine but the wifi.

I used a dongle USB-ethernet (my TV-stick doesn't have an eth port); via ssh with the command ifconfig is it possible to see that the wlan is recognized by the kernel:

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LibreELEC:~ # ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:B6:1F:B3:97
inet addr:192.168.1.11  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:271496 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:610 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:100928939 (96.2 MiB)  TX bytes:475930 (464.7 KiB)


lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
RX packets:41 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:41 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:12199 (11.9 KiB)  TX bytes:12199 (11.9 KiB)


wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr A0:2C:36:64:E3:D4
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

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Indeed in the LE graphic mode the wireless card was detected but trying to connect LE always said that the key was incorrect.

To make it sure I made the key simple "1qaz2WSX" in the router. Also I tried to connect to my cellular phone with its tethering.

I downgraded to LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.2.6.img but the wifi was still not connecting then

I upgraded to the nightly-build LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-12.0-nightly-20230819-8e18456.img: same

The wifi device is low detected so I image there should be a way to make it work: but how?

Any suggestion?

Thank

**chewitt** · August 22, 2023 at 3:04 PM

Known issue with currently no known fix: https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/issues/7166

mune · August 22, 2023 at 4:55 PM

Thanks for the reply.

It looks like a bad new, but, to see the glass half filled, it's better than wasting hours and hours in debugging/trying.

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Anyway I don't understand: in the post it is said

So actually, just for luck, as I downgraded to LE_9.2.6 it should have worked.

mune · August 22, 2023 at 5:56 PM

ops

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LE7.x to LE10.x use wpa_supplicant, and LE11 uses iwd. We know exactly when that change was committed, but that is not that useful because

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