If you need better wireless on legacy kernels it's often better to acquire a wireless bridge device. You can get something on Amazon that powers itself from USB and presents an Ethernet interface to the box which requires no WiFi drivers, and being an external device the reception/range is typically better.
[9.0.0] LibreELEC builds for MX2/G18
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February 12, 2017 at 8:00 PM -
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I've discovered that the WiFi driver we've been using for these builds (lwfinger/rtl8188eu) is causing serious instability with this media box. When streaming over WiFi, the media player is prone to lock-up / freeze. Further inspection of the kernel crash logs revealed that it was this wifi module causing the crashes...
There is a separate RTL8188EU-aml package for Amlogic devices, so I have never used the RTL8188EU made by lwfinger in my images.
For example, for the options file for S805 project looks like this: https://github.com/dtechsrv/Libre…05/options#L118
However, this has been a topic here before (#337), but since it is quite difficult to trace back where was published the source code you used, I don't know what you guys actually included earlier.
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There is a separate RTL8188EU-aml package for Amlogic devices, so I have never used the RTL8188EU made by lwfinger in my images.
For example, for the options file for S805 project looks like this: https://github.com/dtechsrv/Libre…05/options#L118
However, this has been a topic here before (#337), but since it is quite difficult to trace back where was published the source code you used, I don't know what you guys actually included earlier.
Interesting, although this RTL8188EU-aml driver is years older than the aircrack-ng one (not that this proves it is a better/worse driver, but the aircrack-ng one seems to be working really well for me so far)
The faulty lwfinger driver was defined here: https://github.com/dtechsrv/LibreELEC-AML/blob/master/packages/linux-drivers/RTL8188EU/package.mk . Perhaps you could update this, as it appears to be your repo after all?
The lwfinger driver is probably EOL anyway, as its author has sadly passed (RIP) - RIP to Larry Finger · Issue #458 · lwfinger/rtl8188eu
Thanks!!
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The faulty lwfinger driver was defined here: https://github.com/dtechsrv/Libre…88EU/package.mk . Perhaps you could update this, as it appears to be your repo after all?
It may perform better on some devices, while it may not on others. Unfortunately, this is a double-edged sword, and since I can't test it, I wouldn't want to modify it, because it's an inherited driver from the official LE repo. In addition, I already indicated that I have never used this driver at all.
... I have never used the RTL8188EU made by lwfinger in my images.
My LE-AML repo is freely forkable, so anyone can modify it. However, I don't want to put more devices and/or drivers in my repo that I can't test. (There are already several devices in 3rdParty that I don't own.)
