Posts by FreshMike

This doesn't seem to be a big deal. Someone tried this already

odroid_c2 compile kernel for 0bda:f179 support

I have 3 Raspberry Pies with the chip and I wouldn't want to rebuild the distro each time myself when an update is out just for one driver.

Unless there is a better way of doing this?

I tried dropping some rtl8188fufw.bin drivers into /storage/.config/firmware, but dmesg is not showing they have been loaded.

Running latest LE 9.2.5 with Kodi 18.8 on Raspberry Pie2.

Thanks

Quote from moreno_fabio

Good Morning,
I have a wireless usb adapter with id 0bda: f179 and I would like to add the rtl8188fu module to it in the kernel.
I already compiled this module for the armbian on the c2 odroid and it worked correctly.

How should I compile this module in the kernel?

the following steps were taken:

git clone GitHub - LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv: Just enough OS for KODI
cd LibreELEC.tv
git checkout libreelec-9.0
PROJECT = Amlogic DEVICE = Odroid_C2 ARCH = arm tools / download-tool

to compile the module in armbian I used following command
I downloaded the kernel-headers and then

git clone GitHub - ulli-kroll/rtl8188fu: rtl8188fu driver for linux
make
sudo modprobe cfg80211
insmod rtl8188fu.ko
make installfw

here is the cross compile command

make ARCH = "arm" CROSS_COMPILE = CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- KSRC = /usr/lib/linux-kernel-headers-3.14.79-116 modules

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Hi Can you share the package.mk file for rtl8188fu driver you used ? Thanks

Quote from chewitt

User posts about low-quality Realtek device delivering low-quality performance. LE staff feign surprise and advise user that the $2 USB wireless thing they purchased is garbage. User asks for officially supported and recomended alternative cheap USB wireless devices. LE staff refuse to recommend anything because all the cheap USB wireless stuff you can find is similar garbage. LE staff recommend a wireless bridge that presents Ethernet to the RPi2. User protests that $20 (for a used Apple A1rport express on eBay) is an outrageous idea and makes pithy comments about our decision to not add more low-quality realtek drivers to our distro (so they can purchase the latest expensive USB Realtek wireless garbage instead of older cheap garbage). Eventually user gives up and gets a wireless bridge that just works and the pithy comments stop.

^ is usually how these threads play out..

chewitt OK, can you officially confirm RTL8188 is not supported?

What about using storage firmware folder to drop a driver?

Hi

I'm running a RPi2 with a rtl8188fu wifi usb dongle

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:f179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp

Doesn't seem to work with Libreelec. Are these the only supported drivers ?

https://github.com/libreelec/libreelec.tv/blob/master/distributions/libreelec/options#l71

Would you be able to add support for this driver in the upcoming version ?

GitHub - ulli-kroll/rtl8188fu: rtl8188fu driver for linux

Thanks