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WiFi + Bluetooth, designed for the Raspberry Pi Zero
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Not working with NOOBS #12

Closed procount closed 7 years ago

procount commented 7 years ago

The IoT_pHAT uses the same brcm43430 wifi chipset as is used in the RPi3 working over SDIO. It works fine in Raspbian. NOOBS can operate with the RPi3 wifi, so it should have the correct wifi driver and firmware files included. The correct device-tree entries appear in the /proc subsystem for the IoT_pHAT showing that the NOOBS kernel can read the details from the HAT EEPROM (I already upgraded to v0.3).

So why doesn't the wifi appear in NOOBS? Is there something missing in the NOOBS kernel that I need to add?

Cheong2K commented 7 years ago

We tested with NOOBS 2.0.0, it works fine. Which version are you using?

procount commented 7 years ago

Originally I used NOOBS v1.9. I have also tried the latest v2.0. I have tried it with the latest PiZero v1.3 and a Pi2B. I have started again this morning with a fresh SD card, redownloaded NOOBS v2.0 and installed that to confirm my findings. In NOOBS, the wifi icon is greyed out. In the NOOBS rescue shell (ctrl-alt-F2, root/raspberry), ifconfig does not show any wireless adaptors (only eth0 on the Pi2B). Looking at dmesg output, the brcmfmac driver is registered with the kernel, but it never gets loaded. The firmware (brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin and brcmfmac43134.bin is present in /lib/firmware/brcm. cat /proc/device-tree/hat/product = "IoT pHAT w/eep_v0.3". If I use NOOBS to install Raspbian, Raspbian will happily detect the IoTpHAT and works properly. Is there any more information I can provide?

Cheong2K commented 7 years ago

I know what you mean now.

procount commented 7 years ago

Is there any progress in understanding why the IoTpHAT does not work in NOOBS-lite?

Cheong2K commented 7 years ago

The RPi team has fixed this and will be ready in NOOBS Lite version 2.1, so stay tuned.

procount commented 7 years ago

Thanks.

procount commented 7 years ago

IoTpHAT is now supported in my PINN fork of NOOBS as well. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=142574