usb Wifi Dongle

charlie · March 5, 2017 at 6:54 PM

Hey,

Since most of theese boxes have kinda flaky wifi, is there any support for for wifi dongles?

**mmpp** · March 5, 2017 at 7:26 PM

All that I tried worked out of the box. I guess the more common chipsets should be supported. If you have a specific dongle in mind, check which chip is used and see if the kernel module and firmware is included in the image.

**Iridium** · March 5, 2017 at 7:27 PM Official Post

Most wifi dongles I have used work without issue.

Maybe you need to be a bit MORE specific!

charlie · March 5, 2017 at 7:39 PM

ah great, just throwing the question out there before bying one, no need to uninstall the driver for the built in wifi then? Or do you choose wich network card it will use?

**mmpp** · March 5, 2017 at 8:41 PM

The easiest way is to blacklist the driver for the internal wifi. Then only the external wifi will be available.

charlie · March 6, 2017 at 4:21 AM

thx, for the 905X whats the name of the internal wifi? ( what the "word" to blacklist.
Also is blacklist a must or is it just a precaution to avoid it going to the internal wifi?

Tim_Taylor · March 6, 2017 at 9:17 AM

You have to find out the internal wifi chipset

Code

Krypton-Box:~ # lsmod|grep wlan
cfg80211              360934  1 wlan

Example when module is cfg80211:

Code

echo "blacklist cfg80211" >> /storage/.config/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

**kszaq** · March 6, 2017 at 9:57 AM

Tim_Taylor This is wrong! cfg80211 is a dependency for all WiFi kernel modules!

Tim_Taylor · March 6, 2017 at 10:58 AM

It´s an example

find sdio device
udevadm info

Code

/sys/bus/sdio/devices/sdio*
P: /devices/d0070000.sdio/mmc_host/sdio/sdio:0001/sdio:0001:1
E: DEVPATH=/devices/d0070000.sdio/mmc_host/sdio/sdio:0001/sdio:0001:1
E: DRIVER=ar6k_wlan
E: MODALIAS=sdio:c00v0271d0701
E: SDIO_CLASS=00
E: SDIO_ID=0271:0701
E: SUBSYSTEM=sdio
E: SYSTEMD_WANTS=qca9377-firmware-aml.service
E: TAGS=:systemd:
E: USEC_INITIALIZED=14828575

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find Android kernel modules

Code

mkdir -p /tmp/system
mount /dev/system /tmp/system
find /tmp/system -name *.ko


my box reports:
/tmp/system/lib/audio_data.ko
/tmp/system/lib/cfg80211.ko
/tmp/system/lib/compat.ko
/tmp/system/lib/dwc3.ko
/tmp/system/lib/dwc_otg.ko
/tmp/system/lib/mali.ko
/tmp/system/lib/wlan.ko

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