(2019-05-13, 22:33)Milhouse Wrote: - Include [env] PR:3507 (perma): linux (RPi/Generic/Allwinner): update to linux-5.1.1
Hi, thank you for the update. I actually came here for a slightly different reason than a Kodi udpate, it is more related to the Kernel update for Librelec on an RPi2, which I had hoped would include drivers and firmware for a WiFi Adapter (netgear A6210 based on Mediatek Chip). As Librelec 9.0.2 is Kernel 4.19.36 and I believe the firmware was udpated to around 4.20 and later, your build with the 5.1.1 Kernel is the place where I had hoped an udpated build would have these drivers and firmware.
I have been advised over on Librelec forum that "...
we plan to drop support for all wifi devices that don't have in-kernel drivers in LE 10.0...". I believe the
driver I am looking for is already in-kernel [/var/lib/modules/5.1.1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76], but the directory which should have the firmware in it [/var/lib/firmware/
mediatek] does not appear in either 9.0.2 or your build? My detailed post is here
https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/8284-n...post119804 but essentially the message is this:
Quote:# dmesg | grep mt76x2u
[ 10.181344] mt76x2u 1-1.3:1.0: ASIC revision: 76120044
[ 10.357937] mt76x2u 1-1.3:1.0: Direct firmware load for mt7662_rom_patch.bin failed with error -2
[ 10.948463] mt76x2u: probe of 1-1.3:1.0 failed with error -2
[ 10.949428] usbcore: registered new interface driver mt76x2u
I cannot find the mt7662_rom_patch.bin file in the (Kernel 5.1.1) LibreELEC.tv Matrix build #0514.
My full dmesg|paste here
http://ix.io/1J52
lsusb finds the physical device, just drivers not loaded.
Quote:Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0846:9053 NetGear, Inc.
If this is not the correct forum for driver issues associated with Librelec, my apologies; but where would I ask please, as Librelec is integrated with Kodi?
If there has been a conscious decision NOT to include Wifi devices running certain Mediatek Chips (despite drivers being in-kernel), it'd be great to know that too, so I can stop trying to make this device work. It's doing my head in (and I know nothing about Linux, so I have had to learn a bunch of stuff to even write this note, bear with me).
Thanks a lot
k.