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Published in 2016-3-6 01:16:57 | Show all floors |Read mode
Edited by Jazzmania at 2016-3-6 02:27

Hello,
So far I've only found one distro for OPi that runs wifi right out of the box, jacer's Debian build, but it's a little spotty.  From reading the info on Armbian it seems like wifi should work on at least a few different devices.  I tried the current Armbian releases of both Debian and Ubuntu on my OPi-PC with an Edimax EW-7811Un dongle (Realtek RTL8188CUS chipset), with all the different drivers available in the "Advanced settings" menu, but when I open the wifi menu it doesn't detect any networks.  

I can't get online without wifi (no access to the router), so if I need to download something to make wifi work I'm sunk.  Is there some setting I need to change? Any other suggestions?  Any other distros that run wifi natively?  Otherwise I have a $15 paperweight.

Thanks!

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Published in 2016-3-6 03:36:29 | Show all floors
Yeah, on Armbian the build-scripts place the 8192cu.ko kernel-module in the wrong place at the moment, I'll submit a patch for it in a moment. In the meanwhile you can move it from /usr/local/bin/8192cu.ko to /lib/modules/3.4.110-sun8i/kernel/net/wireless/ and run "depmod -a" followed by "modprobe 8192cu" to load the driver for your dongle. After that it should be loaded automatically whenever you plug the dongle in or if it's plugged-in during boot.

Will hopefully be fixed in future-builds of Armbian.

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 Author| Published in 2016-3-6 04:49:55 | Show all floors
WereCatf replied at 2016-3-6 03:36
Yeah, on Armbian the build-scripts place the 8192cu.ko kernel-module in the wrong place at the momen ...

Thanks, WereCatf!  I'll give it another go.

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Published in 2016-3-23 15:34:54 | Show all floors
Edited by hatahata at 2016-3-23 15:40
Jazzmania replied at 2016-3-6 04:49
Thanks, WereCatf!  I'll give it another go.

i use wifi repeater insted of usb wifi .
it is chiep  about 15$ .
and
surely it is bigger than usb wifi , but it can be used when  for example PC is openbsd .

wifi router
192.168.100.254
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|wifi
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repeater----------wifi antena
NIC
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|wired
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NIC
orange pi

wifi repeater is

                                       




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Published in 2016-4-1 06:43:56 | Show all floors
The complete procedure to get EDIMAX EW-7811UN working on Armbian_ 5.05 is described here :

http://forum.armbian.com/index.p ... less-module-8192cu/
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