HTPC Wifi not working

Deezel · March 28, 2016 at 12:57 PM

Hi there, i have an HTPC box here.. wifi working fine with latest official OE but for some reason when i update to latest Libreelec.. i lose the wifi option under network in Libreelec settings.
Any advice?

mark-aus-51 · March 28, 2016 at 1:22 PM

Hi,

I think, you´ve to post more hardware-details here (expecielly WiFi), before you can get help.

Greetings
Mark

Deezel · March 28, 2016 at 2:13 PM

of course.. my bad.

cpu: 1037U
ram/flash: 2gb/16gb
wifi: Broadcom BCM43224 802.11 a/b/g/n(rev 01)

not sure what other info would be needed.. everything else works perfect, the only issue i am having is that there is no wifi option in settings but there is in the official openelec.
[hr]

took a pic of what i mean.. one pic with openelec and the other using libreelec.

**DaVu** · March 28, 2016 at 7:43 PM Official Post

get use a

Code

dmesg | pastebinit

Deezel · April 1, 2016 at 9:59 PM

Quote from David1977
get use a
Code
dmesg | pastebinit

sorry took so long.

Here is the pastebin link
aNWj

**chewitt** · April 3, 2016 at 2:51 PM Official Post

Please run "lspci -k | paste" so we can see the devices vs. driver being used and share the URL here, thanks

Deezel · April 6, 2016 at 9:40 PM

As requested kind sir.

gEVO

**chewitt** · April 7, 2016 at 5:03 AM Official Post

Code

echo "blacklist wl" > /storage/.config/modprobe.d/wl.conf

Please run that and reboot .. let's see if the brcmfmac driver works on that device instead of wl.

Deezel · April 7, 2016 at 12:44 PM

did as you said but still no wifi option available in LE settings, remember i can see the wifi options when using oe... just seems it is missing from LE

**chewitt** · April 10, 2016 at 4:32 AM Official Post

Code

rm /storage/.config/modprobe.d/wl.conf
echo "blacklist bcma" > /storage/.config/modprobe.d/bcma.conf

try the other way around then

Deezel · April 12, 2016 at 3:37 PM

Code

echo "blacklist bcma" > /storage/.config/modprobe.d/bcma.conf

This fixed it sir... thank you for that.
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Now that we know the fix.. is that going to be added to the next update?

**chewitt** · April 13, 2016 at 10:11 AM Official Post

Can you run "lspci -nn | paste" and share the URL so we can see the PCI device ID's. The bcma driver in the kernel needs patching to remove the ID so that it becomes unsupported and thus defaults to using wl. It might not make the next build (first beta) but should be included fairly soon.

Deezel · April 13, 2016 at 2:58 PM

As requested....
NEOZ

Gadget · August 25, 2016 at 1:10 PM

Hi, I seem to have the same problem.

In the LibreELEC Config, it does have the "Check Box" to activate the Wi-Fi, but when selected it doesn't do anything (The Blue "light" (Not that it is a light) to say that it has been selected lights up for a half a second and then goes back to the "Off" setting, so I am assuming that it has found some form of hardware but the selection to activate it doesn't do anything).

I have tried the above, (Just thought I may as well try it before bugging someone here) but it never worked, possibly, because the above was a different driver to mine.

This also worked in OpenELEC, but as soon as I installed LibreELEC I noticed it was no longer functional.

fjhd (assuming "Drivers in use")

OKVO (PCI device ID's)

FHON (What I am assuming is the log output of the devices)

Much appreciated.

Gadget.

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