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boundary="00000000000006bce605a5c7c1e7" X-BeenThere: driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux Driver Project Developer List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, hdegoede@redhat.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net Errors-To: driverdev-devel-bounces@linuxdriverproject.org Sender: "devel" --00000000000006bce605a5c7c1e7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi Tobias, On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 10:57 AM Tobias Baumann <017623705678@o2online.de> wrote: > > Hello Community > > I was referred to you by Martin. I have an older Android TV box that > runs for over 3 years with Armbian Linux (Debian Jessie Headless Kernel > 3.10.99). I'm looking forward to the new kernels and I'm glad that older > hardware is still supported. > Together with Oleg(balbes150) and Martin(xdarklight) I am testing the > new kernel 5.x for ARM ( Amlogic S812 / Meson8m2 ) . Martin has written > a patch for the SDIO controller in the last days so that also Wifi > module and MMC are recognized. I could now successfully load the driver > module RTLWIFI from the kernel. But unfortunately the card is only > listed on the desktop as "not ready" or in the terminal (iwlist) as "no > scan result". In the dmesg/lsmod RTLWIFI->RTL8723bs is loaded and the > module is loaded with version v4.3.5.5_12290.20140916_BTCOEX20140507-4E40 . > > > I would like to ask you to check the driver because even in kernel > 3.10.99 a newer version (v4.3.16_13854.20150410_BTCOEX20150119-5844) is > loaded and also at github are hard kernels ( version 2017 Kernel 4.9>) > and ap17 and thirdyouth (v5.2.17.1_26955.20180307_COEX20180201-6f52). > More recent ones can also be found - these have already been > successfully tested with Debian 10. i hope that this may solve the > problem with my Linux box. > > I would appreciate feedback on this request or information about > debugging . My Linux box is also available for testing purposes I just tried this on one of my Meson8b boards to see if it's some problem with the MMC controller driver (meson-mx-sdio). Here are my steps: - (boot the board) - ip link set up dev wlan0 - (wait until that finishes, it takes a while because it seems to load the wifi firmware) - iw dev wlan0 scan - (wait a few seconds, then it shows many 2.4GHz wifi networks) - wpa_passphrase MY_24GHz_WIFI_SSID > /tmp/wpa_supplicant_conf - (enter the passphrase and press CTRL-D) - wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/tmp/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dnl80211 & - (wait a couple more seconds for it to connect) - dhcpcd wlan0 - then I ran iperf3, see the attached result - then I ran dmesg | grep -Ei "(rtl8723bs|wlan0)", see the attached result with these commands wifi is working "fine" for me. my definition of fine: it connects to my AP and traffic can flow. transfer speeds are on the low side (with 15Mbit/s and 5Mbit/s) but I have no reference (for example from a vendor kernel) so I can't say if that's to be expected. I am not sure about any "desktop" tools and their behavior because I don't use these. can you please try the steps above and attach the output of the "failing" commands (together with the dmesg output)? 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