Posts by lawndartdeath

Never mind guys. I was able to roll the driver into LibreELEC 10.0.2 and compile it for the Raspberry Pi 4 just fine. I'm not sure what went wrong when I tried to compile it a couple months ago. Maybe there was a bug in LibreELEC, the driver, or an Ubuntu 20.04 package on my build machine. I'll see if it works for the RPi 2 when I get a chance.

Has anyone been able to compile the driver into LibreELEC 10? I'm running into errors on the same development machine that I used for rolling the driver into LibreELEC 9. I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.

I've been using this adapter with my Pi4 for almost a week and it performs very well. Hopefully we can get a driver for this chipset rolled into the default kernel.

After having WIFI performance issues at the back end of my house with Kodi on my Google TV and my RaspberryPi 4 I decided to bust out my Rpi2 with this adapter. This solved all of the performance issues that I was having.

I can't say for sure what brought on the performance issues. Either my router degraded in some fashion or there is too much radio interference near my house now.

The Techkey-6B06 is a beast. Get one if you find it on sale like I did.

I'll try to roll a RPi4 image with the driver and see how that performs too.

I was able to make it work with 9.2.6 as well. Well, sort of. The adapter works but I was having problems with Kodi being able to play videos. Also, the performance of the menu seemed slower than the official builds. I don't know if it's a problem with my build environment or what. I'm using a Ubuntu 20.04 virtual machine to build these images. The 10.0 build that I made is still working fine.

This method worked for me. I built it against the latest master branch 10.0 quick just to see if it would work. I had to set the Wireless Regulatory Domain to something other than the default setting under the menu LibreElec->Network.

After a reboot I'm able to see my 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz channels and connect to them no problem. I still need to test the performance a bit but my library is indexing at a decent rate. This is on a Raspberry Pi 2 so I'm limited by the USB 2.0 bus.

I'm using a Techkey model: "Techkey-6B06" USB 802.11AC adapter.

I'll try building it against the latest stable branch when I have some time. Thanks smp!

Quote from smp

You can add the rtl88x2bu driver to the LE build system and compile an image.

e.g.:

Code

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv
cd LibreELEC.tv/packages/linux-drivers
mkdir RTL88x2BU
cd RTL88x2BU
touch package.mk

add this to package.mk:

Code

PKG_NAME="RTL88x2BU"
PKG_VERSION="439c7dbd9e43acd91d5704a50b68647716c52505"
PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
PKG_SITE="https://github.com/cilynx/rtl88x2bu"
PKG_URL="https://github.com/cilynx/rtl88x2bu/archive/$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain linux"
PKG_NEED_UNPACK="$LINUX_DEPENDS"
PKG_LONGDESC="Realtek RTL88x2BU Linux driver"
PKG_IS_KERNEL_PKG="yes"

pre_make_target() {
  unset LDFLAGS
}

make_target() {
  make V=1 \
       ARCH=$TARGET_KERNEL_ARCH \
       KSRC=$(kernel_path) \
       CROSS_COMPILE=$TARGET_KERNEL_PREFIX \
       CONFIG_POWER_SAVING=n
}

makeinstall_target() {
  mkdir -p $INSTALL/$(get_full_module_dir)/$PKG_NAME
    cp *.ko $INSTALL/$(get_full_module_dir)/$PKG_NAME
}

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Edit distributions/LibreELEC/options file, add RTL88x2BU to "ADDITIONAL_DRIVERS=" :

ADDITIONAL_DRIVERS="RTL8192CU RTL8192DU RTL8192EU RTL8188EU RTL8812AU RTL88x2BU"

Build an image:

cd ~/LibreELEC.tv

PROJECT=RPi ARCH=arm DEVICE=RPi2 make image

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