unable to up wlan0 interface on RTL8189ftv

[sajjadsabzkar]

Hi , i after installed your aur package it successfully installed and wlan0 shown at ip add command. but when i run sudo ip link set wlan0 up respond RTNETLINK Operation not permitted?

[7Ji]

What's your kernel version? The stable branch maintainance team at kernel.org backported a troublesome cfg80211 fix which breaks the wlan on all stable branches, for 6.1 this breaks every version after 6.1.15 and until 6.1.18. From 6.1.19 this is fixed but I did not update the kernel package here yet as our upstream (flipply/unifreq) only updated his kernel source to > 6.1.18 yesterday.

[7Ji]

FYI, I'm still building 6.1.21 for test before pushing that (I test things on my 6 different boxes for each kernel bump), but you can build by your own if you can't wait, apply the following patch to my AUR package linux-aarch64-flippy and you should be able to build 6.1.21

From e083715ad92d980cd3e4c0f01195547de062cda6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: 7Ji <pugokushin@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:12:24 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] bump to 6.1.21

---
 .SRCINFO | 14 +++++++-------
 PKGBUILD |  8 ++++----
 config   |  5 +----
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.SRCINFO b/.SRCINFO
index c227d96..265920a 100644
--- a/.SRCINFO
+++ b/.SRCINFO
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 pkgbase = linux-aarch64-flippy
-       pkgver = 6.1.18
+       pkgver = 6.1.21
        pkgrel = 1
        url = https://github.com/unifreq/linux-6.1.y
        arch = aarch64
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ pkgbase = linux-aarch64-flippy
        makedepends = dtc
        makedepends = uboot-tools
        options = !strip
-       source = linux-6.1.y-43a6f6232f8d460d7cb6b5c7d562c94b03300d4f.tar.gz::https://github.com/unifreq/linux-6.1.y/archive/43a6f6232f8d460d7cb6b5c7d562c94b03300d4f.tar.gz
+       source = linux-6.1.y-f9790f631bd69bb7d4d2b21b4547cc224a86f7b7.tar.gz::https://github.com/unifreq/linux-6.1.y/archive/f9790f631bd69bb7d4d2b21b4547cc224a86f7b7.tar.gz
        source = config
        source = linux.preset
-       sha256sums = db7f8bbe3b048a10abd125ece0c4a539e7222030dca1a3c7d6d1ba5e6d9c4da5
-       sha256sums = b64ee3c7ce2a159e19c2b786b40a9031e79a54e330684107c06e89e4e7456077
+       sha256sums = 1dcaf8d500920bf8f3cdde1f5259a85a7fdaec5363689b87e1b43ef968895c58
+       sha256sums = a4c4f35cb6eae42e06985850f294d1278d9332154715dd2df5ff885a25fc05b3
        sha256sums = bdcd6cbf19284b60fac6d6772f1e0ec2e2fe03ce7fe3d7d16844dd6d2b5711f3

 pkgname = linux-aarch64-flippy
@@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ pkgname = linux-aarch64-flippy-headers

 pkgname = linux-aarch64-flippy-dtb-allwinner
        pkgdesc = DTB files for Allwinner SoCs for flippy's AArch64 kernel
-       provides = linux-aarch64-flippy-dtb=6.1.18
+       provides = linux-aarch64-flippy-dtb=6.1.21

 pkgname = linux-aarch64-flippy-dtb-amlogic
        pkgdesc = DTB files for Amlogic SoCs for flippy's AArch64 kernel
-       provides = linux-aarch64-flippy-dtb=6.1.18
+       provides = linux-aarch64-flippy-dtb=6.1.21

 pkgname = linux-aarch64-flippy-dtb-rockchip
        pkgdesc = DTB files for Rockchip SoCs for flippy's AArch64 kernel
-       provides = linux-aarch64-flippy-dtb=6.1.18
+       provides = linux-aarch64-flippy-dtb=6.1.21
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 3fb352b..2d9145d 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 # Maintainer: 7Ji <pugokughin@gmail.com>

 _desc="flippy's AArch64-focused fork aiming to increase usability"
-_pkgver_main=6.1.18
+_pkgver_main=6.1.21
 _pkgver_suffix=flippy
 _pkgver_uname="${_pkgver_main}-${_pkgver_suffix}"
 _flippy_repo='linux-6.1.y'
-_flippy_commit='43a6f6232f8d460d7cb6b5c7d562c94b03300d4f'
+_flippy_commit='f9790f631bd69bb7d4d2b21b4547cc224a86f7b7'
 _srcname="${_flippy_repo}-${_flippy_commit}"

 pkgbase=linux-aarch64-flippy
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ source=(
   'linux.preset'
 )
 sha256sums=(
-  'db7f8bbe3b048a10abd125ece0c4a539e7222030dca1a3c7d6d1ba5e6d9c4da5'
-  'b64ee3c7ce2a159e19c2b786b40a9031e79a54e330684107c06e89e4e7456077'
+  '1dcaf8d500920bf8f3cdde1f5259a85a7fdaec5363689b87e1b43ef968895c58'
+  'a4c4f35cb6eae42e06985850f294d1278d9332154715dd2df5ff885a25fc05b3'
   'bdcd6cbf19284b60fac6d6772f1e0ec2e2fe03ce7fe3d7d16844dd6d2b5711f3'
 )

diff --git a/config b/config
index 75e5687..025fb12 100644
--- a/config
+++ b/config
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #
 # Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
-# Linux/arm64 6.1.18 Kernel Configuration
+# Linux/arm64 6.1.21 Kernel Configuration
 #
 CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="gcc (GCC) 12.1.0"
 CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC=y
@@ -2865,9 +2865,6 @@ CONFIG_R8125_MULTIPLE_RX_QUEUE=y
 CONFIG_R8125_MULTIPLE_TX_QUEUE=y
 CONFIG_R8125_USE_FIRMWARE_FILE=y
 CONFIG_R8125_PM_SUPPORT=y
-CONFIG_R8125_DOUBLE_VLAN=y
-CONFIG_R8125_PAGE_REUSE=y
-CONFIG_R8125_RX_PACKET_FRAGMENT=y
 CONFIG_R8168=m
 # CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_RENESAS is not set
 # CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_ROCKER is not set
-- 
2.39.2

[sajjadsabzkar]

Of course, I am using Manjaro with kernel 6.2.1.1 and it was able to install the driver that you aurpackaged well. However, apparently the problem must be from dtb, which cannot turn it on. log.txt

here some logs from dmesg command.

[7Ji]

3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.xxx.xxx/24 metric 1024 brd 192.168.xxx.xxx scope global dynamic wlan0
       valid_lft 891sec preferred_lft 891sec

[sajjadsabzkar]

3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.xxx.xxx/24 metric 1024 brd 192.168.xxx.xxx scope global dynamic wlan0
       valid_lft 891sec preferred_lft 891sec

Is there a problem with my dtb?

[7Ji]

My gut feeling is that, since you're using mainline kernel from Manjaro, which misses a lot of things related to the boxes no one responsible for mainstream distros care, you're probably using a "similar" dtb for an Amlogic reference board, which is obviously not configured with SDIO wireless card, hence the lots of failed probe message.

This is not a thing related to my projects and I won't bother to check that kernel and Manjaro. Last time I checked the official ArchLinuxARM kernel on my BPi M5 (one that's supported by upstream) it's not working. The kernel used here, even though still "mainline" in the sense it's not vendor, has a lot of things flippy, ophub and I added.

[7Ji]

FYI, I just tagged a new release with the updated kernel https://github.com/7Ji/amlogic-s9xxx-archlinuxarm/releases/tag/20230323

If you're not bothered to re-install alarm or build the newer kernel, you can just download the *-pkg.tar.xz release artifact to get the pre-built kernel pacakge to install manually.