Morning all
24 hours on and everything seems to be rock solid. Getting between 80 and 120Mbps download and 30-40Mbps upload speed through the RTL88x2BU driver. No disconnects. Streaming from a remote source seems perfect
Thanks for the assistance
Regards
Paul
Hi all
OK I seem to have moved on a bit, just thought I would update to save anyone wasting any time until I hit any other issues of course
I had updated distributions/LibreELEC/options and added the new driver
ADDITIONAL_DRIVERS="RTL8192CU RTL8192DU RTL8192EU RTL8188EU RTL8812AU RTL88x2BU"
It would seem that I have to do that in projects/Generic/options either as well or instead of.
Having rebuilt and updated my LibreElec I can now see the module in /usr/lib/modules/5.1.16/ (RTL88x2BU) and the wireless network is now available in the LibreElec GUI
I'll let you know how it goes
Thanks for your help
Regards
Paul
Hi mglae
Just to be on the safe side I purged the target folder and rebuilt LibreElec using "PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 make image"
I dropped the new LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.2-devel-20210726153154-5d0330e.img.gz into the update folder (thanks for that, I would have been clean installing if not for the advice) but nothing seems to have changed. I was expecting to see my new module in /usr/lib/modules/5.1.16 but all I have there is
LibreELEC:~ # ls -l /usr/lib/modules/5.1.16/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Jul 26 15:49 RTL8188EU
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Jul 26 15:49 RTL8192CU
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Jul 26 15:49 RTL8192DU
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Jul 26 15:49 RTL8192EU
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Jul 26 15:49 RTL8812AU
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Jul 26 15:49 bcm_sta
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Jul 26 15:49 intel_nuc_led
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 180 Jul 26 15:49 kernel
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 62 Jul 26 15:49 modules.alias -> /usr/lib/kernel-overlays/base/lib/modules/5.1.16/modules.alias
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 66 Jul 26 15:49 modules.alias.bin -> /usr/lib/kernel-overlays/base/lib/modules/5.1.16/modules.alias.bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 64 Jul 26 15:49 modules.builtin -> /usr/lib/kernel-overlays/base/lib/modules/5.1.16/modules.builtin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 68 Jul 26 15:49 modules.builtin.bin -> /usr/lib/kernel-overlays/base/lib/modules/5.1.16/modules.builtin.bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 60 Jul 26 15:49 modules.dep -> /usr/lib/kernel-overlays/base/lib/modules/5.1.16/modules.dep
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 64 Jul 26 15:49 modules.dep.bin -> /usr/lib/kernel-overlays/base/lib/modules/5.1.16/modules.dep.bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 64 Jul 26 15:49 modules.devname -> /usr/lib/kernel-overlays/base/lib/modules/5.1.16/modules.devname
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 62 Jul 26 15:49 modules.order -> /usr/lib/kernel-overlays/base/lib/modules/5.1.16/modules.order
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 64 Jul 26 15:49 modules.softdep -> /usr/lib/kernel-overlays/base/lib/modules/5.1.16/modules.softdep
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 64 Jul 26 15:49 modules.symbols -> /usr/lib/kernel-overlays/base/lib/modules/5.1.16/modules.symbols
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 68 Jul 26 15:49 modules.symbols.bin -> /usr/lib/kernel-overlays/base/lib/modules/5.1.16/modules.symbols.bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 Jul 26 15:49 nvidiaHi everybody
I have been using LibreElec for quite some time and the vanilla install has always been perfect for me. But I am building a new box for my daughter and with the box connected using ethernet everything is wonderful. However, she has an cheap USB Wifi adapter (RTL88x2BU) which is not supported. Being rather scrooge-like rather than buy her a new USB Adadpter I thought I would have a go at building the module myself.
First off on one of my servers (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS) to get some proof that this approach was going to work I cloned GitHub - cilynx/rtl88x2bu: rtl88x2bu driver updated for current kernels.
Then I used dkms to add, build and install the module and finally ran a modprobe rtl88x2bu. Plugged in the USB Adapter and hey-presto I have a working Wireless Adapter on my server
This small success set me off an a number of abortive attempts to build LibreElec locally but after a few attempts I now have an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS VirtualBox that will cleanly build Libreleec 9.2 Generic x86_64 and I have tested this by installing on my daughters machine and all is fine and dandy with the Ethernet connection.
Small steps being the watch word I then followed one of the thread on this forum to try to build an rtl88x2bu module. Under ~/http://LibreELEC.tv/packages/ I created a folder RTL88x2BU and in that folder created a package.mk containing the following
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
}I edited distributions/LibreELEC/options and added the new driver
ADDITIONAL_DRIVERS="RTL8192CU RTL8192DU RTL8192EU RTL8188EU RTL8812AU RTL88x2BU"
I then rebuilt the LibreElec using "PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 make image" which threw no errors and when it had completed I had a number of files under ~/http://LibreELEC.tv/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.2-devel/RTL88x2BU-439c7dbd9e43acd91d5704a50b68647716c52505 including a 88x2bu.ko
-rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 4471088 Jul 26 10:23 88x2bu.ko
-rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 1434 Jul 26 10:23 88x2bu.mod.c
-rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 3920 Jul 26 10:23 88x2bu.mod.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 4476592 Jul 26 10:23 88x2bu.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 268 Nov 14 2020 build.sh
-rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 64 Nov 14 2020 clean
drwxrwxr-x 4 paul paul 4096 Jul 26 10:23 core
-rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 237 Nov 14 2020 dkms.conf
drwxrwxr-x 9 paul paul 4096 Jul 26 10:23 hal
-rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 1902 Nov 14 2020 halmac.mk
-rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 54 Nov 14 2020 ifcfg-wlan0
drwxrwxr-x 5 paul paul 12288 Nov 14 2020 include
-rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 130 Nov 14 2020 Kconfig
-rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 18092 Nov 14 2020 LICENSE
-rwxrwxr-x 1 paul paul 70373 Nov 14 2020 Makefile
-rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 133 Jul 26 10:23 modules.order
-rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 0 Jul 26 10:23 Module.symvers
drwxrwxr-x 3 paul paul 4096 Jul 26 10:23 os_dep
drwxrwxr-x 2 paul paul 4096 Jul 26 10:23 platform
-rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 5445 Nov 14 2020 README.md
-rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 1920 Nov 14 2020 rtl8822b.mk
-rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 423 Nov 14 2020 runwpa
-rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 294 Nov 14 2020 wlan0dhcpI then burned the new img file to USB and installed LibreElec as normal
Sadly, plugging in the USB Adapter had no effect and no Wifi connections are showing
As far as I can see there are no new modules under /lib/modules/5.1.16 (there are five RTL folders but they were there previously)
I have obviously missed or mucked up something but for the life of me cannot see what
Any assistance would be most appreciated
Regards
Paul