Posts by chewitt

Ethernet or crappy wifi? In a local network there should be no need to fiddle with cache settings, ever.

If the bug is unresolved upstream, it remains unresolved downstream.

Performance under Windows has fcuk all to do with performance under Linux. One of these days Intel will release a reliable Linux WIFI driver and thousands of NUC users will rejoice.

Use the "date" command: UNIX Date Command Examples – nixCraft

If you want it to persist over reboots invest in one of the inexpensive mods that adds an RTC chip and battery to the Pi.

It is not possible to edit or add files to /usr/bin as that path is inside a read-only squashfs file (that expands into a virtual filesystem on boot). Any changes there need to be made a image compile time; with a small number of exceptions where we support boot-time override of embedded files with content in /storage/.config/

What exact file are you attempting to modify?

using a corrupted image? .. is the obvious explanation

If it works you'll see duplicate wireless network names in the connections list; one will be from the wlan0 interface and another will be from the wlan1 interface. In the long run (once you have a working USB device) it might make sense to blacklist the driver for the internal wireless card to prevent it loading at boot-time, then you will only see one set of networks.

Make sure the filesystems are clean, i.e. unmounted properly in Windows, else Linux often objects and fails to mount things to be safe.

dmesg usually offers some clues on the issue

Samba looks for /storage/.config/samba.conf at startup and if found it's used as the active configuration. If not found it falls back to the embedded configuration in /etc/smb.conf

Suzhou SmartChip Semiconductor Co.,Ltd FCC ID Applications (2AKCE) - the phone diverts to voicemail and both voice/email messages left (in Mandarin by a native speaker) are not answered. Via third-parties we've been offered the driver in binary form for any Android kernel version we care to ask for, but nobody has sources, which is what we need. I can assure people we've been quite creative on trying to reach them - but so far no results.

It's possible, but Amlogic boxes currently use an older 3.14 Linux kernel so the list of USB wireless devices that might work is smaller than hardware like Raspberry Pi which uses a current kernel. There is no definitive list of devices we support (too many combinations to document).

It was a group decision in OE days to discontinue them and there are no plans to reinstate i386 builds. It's still possible to re-add support and self-build a working i386 image though, e.g. GitHub - maideii/LibreELEC.tv-Intel-i386: Just enough OS for KODI appears to have done the core mods for i386 builds with an Intel GPU and it looks reasonably up-to-date, so if you clone his branch you should be able to run "PROJECT=Generic ARCH=i386 make image" and get something that works (self-build instructions are in the wiki). If you have AMD or nVidia GPU's there are probably some missing commits, but nothing hard to track down; from memory you can crib nVidia bits from my appletv-7.0 branch.

RTL871X: ERROR invalid mac addr:00:00:00:00:00:00, assign random MAC

The connection manager (connman) caches configurations in a structured format keyed on the connection type and MAC of the interface so ^ that's the problem. It doesn't forget.. it's just (correctly) presented with a new randomly generated MAC on each boot.

echo "options 8812au rtm_initmac=00:e0:4c:37:67:35" > /storage/.config/modprobe.d/8812au.conf
or
echo "options 8812au mac_addr=00:e0:4c:37:67:35" > /storage/.config/modprobe.d/8812au.conf

^ this is a complete guess based on 60 seconds of non-specific Googling, so I make no guarantees it will work. It is technically possible to change the MAC via ethtool commands, but really it should be done at driver load time which is what we're trying to achieve.

I don't have the code knowledge to spot if this is an issue with the driver code or not, but the lack of general comments in Google search makes me suspect it's a manufacturing issue where a blank/null MAC address is set in the device. You can argue whether that's a fault as it wouldn't cause an issue in Win/macOS, but it does here. It probably indicates a cheap device where the manufacturer hasn't been assigned unique hardware ID ranges for their devices.

We know who creates the chip. They don't respond to emails in English or Chinese. Neither Amlogic or Rockchip (where we have direct contacts) have any record of an authorised hardware manufacturer using the chip (else they would require accreditation and would have driver sources in their code archives). I'm sure sources will leak eventually, but until that happens we are out of luck.

Make sure you follow instructions correctly. You do not copy the contents of the zip file to the SD card. You copy the contents of the folder within the zip. It's subtly different, but one results in a working "recovery" SD card that will install to eMMC (WP2 has no NAND) and the other does not.

No logs = no problem.

Mount the second partition of the pi's SD card from another Linux distro (macOS and Win can only read the first partition, not the second) to delete the folder. Then eject and reinsert the card, reboot the pi and webgrabplus is gone.

Can't connect to Tvheadend IP sounds similar, and there are a few other threads in Kodi forums that sound the same, but none of them have a conclusion. As it's tvheadend that doesn't start, look at the tvheadend server log for clues.