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TL-WN722N not working #230

Open POMATu opened 10 years ago

POMATu commented 10 years ago

Hi,

This dongle do not work. I just wrote cubie image to sdcard and ran cubian-update. The led on this wifi dongle do not blink.

root@Cubian:/home/cubie# lsmod Module Size Used by mali 119417 0 ump 58137 1 mali gpio_sunxi 8675 0

root@Cubian:/home/cubie# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions.

tunl0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

root@Cubian:/home/cubie# modprobe ath9k_htc FATAL: Module ath9k_htc not found.

Is it possibe to use this dongle with cubian? Thanks

faker00t commented 10 years ago

You need to install firmware package for atheros (apt-get install firmware-atheros).

POMATu commented 10 years ago

root@Cubian:/home/cubie# apt-get install firmware-atheros Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done firmware-atheros is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 30 not upgraded. root@Cubian:/home/cubie# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions.

tunl0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

it's already installed. Adapter still not working. Tried to insert it after boot, and boot with adapter inserted - no luck.

faker00t commented 10 years ago

What about modprobe ath9k (not ath9k_htc)?

POMATu commented 10 years ago

root@Cubian:/home/cubie# modprobe ath9k root@Cubian:/home/cubie# modprobe ath9k_htc FATAL: Module ath9k_htc not found. root@Cubian:/home/cubie# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions.

tunl0 no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

root@Cubian:/home/cubie# cat /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0 allow-hotplug wlan0 iface wlan0 inet manual

Also need to mention that Wi-Pi dongle is working okay.

toketin commented 10 years ago

Firmware-atheros is present by default in Cubian (r8), but maybe the kernel need to be compiled with "ath9k_htc" support in order to make it working:

cubie@Cubian:~$ modprobe ath9k_htc FATAL: Module ath9k_htc not found.

So please add it in a future release. Thanks

POMATu commented 10 years ago

tried to compile it on the cubieboard without success.

Temporary switched to Archlinux arm. It is the only distribution that has ath9k_htc now (I think I tried EVERY distribution for cubieboard). But archlinux has systemd and netctl crap in it, and also hdmi is not working there, so I am waiting for the next cubian release.

Please compile that module in the next release, or make an kernel update for "cubian-update". Really A LOT OF usb wifi adapters are not working now. Thanks.

toketin commented 10 years ago

@POMATu i confirm that under Arch Arm our wifi dongle usb is recognized without problem. I'm trying Cubian now, because i want to try XBMC here, since under Arch, i compiled it without X support, but the 720p videos are laggy and the sound is not working. If you want i'm in #cubian chan in freenode.net, log you too!

toketin commented 10 years ago

Hi, i fixed the issue! I tried first to compile the firmware following this guide: https://wiki.debian.org/ath9k_htc/open_firmware it took a lot of time for "make toolchain", i finally build the firmware htc_9271.fw, moved it into /lib/firmware but the module needed "ath9k_htc" still didn't exist. So i searched how to compile manually the linux-sun4i kernel and i found this interesting site: https://romanrm.net/a10/kernel which has also the giude to compile the customizd kernel and this cool repository with some precompiled kernels. I installed the 3.4.75-r0-s-rm4+, moved its uImage to /boot partition (with a backup of the older one), rebooted and finally the Tp Wn722n was recognized by Debian, that correctly loaded the ath9k_htc module. Now i've configured wicd (using wicd-curses) the connection to the wireless AP because with the simple /etc/network/interfaces i wasn't able to connect it.

michalliu commented 10 years ago

Thanks for share

POMATu commented 9 years ago

Ok, more than half a year passed, cubian X1 is released, but ath9k_htc is still not there.

Why do you point all users to this issue? why cant you include this module in the build? A lot of wlan dongles dont work with cubian because this module is not included!

I know I cant demand you to do anything, but isn't your goal to do complete firmware for cubieboard like raspbian for raspberry pi? I am not asking you to include legacy printer driver for some old-school LPT printer, I just ask to make the usual things for any linux distribution to work.

Yes I can compile module myself, but I have to do that for every new Cubian release, and many other users can't do that due to lack of experience. This is not the solution.

root@Cubian:/home/cubie# modprobe ath9k_htc FATAL: Module ath9k_htc not found.

This issue is not solved

alex3kov commented 9 years ago

I agree with @POMATu. Spent half a day looking for solution before finding the above workaround. Given the availability of ath9k_htc modules and open source firmware (no closed binary blobs), this dongle should be plug-and-play.