(2017-12-16, 14:21)bmonster Wrote: Hi,
Using a new wifi dongle Realtek 8812BU Wireless LAN 802.11ac USB NIC, but doesnt seem to be loading with these nightly builds, is there anyway i can install the drivers manuallly..
Regards
Bucky
(2017-12-16, 15:22)Milhouse Wrote:(2017-12-16, 14:21)bmonster Wrote: Hi,
Using a new wifi dongle Realtek 8812BU Wireless LAN 802.11ac USB NIC, but doesnt seem to be loading with these nightly builds, is there anyway i can install the drivers manuallly..
Regards
Bucky
You can find a driver for this chipset and build LibreELEC yourself, that might work, until the next kernel bump when your driver will almost certainly be very badly broken.
I don't think we'll be adding any additional Realtek driver support with new out-of-tree drivers - the longer term plan is to drop them all and switch to the in-kernel WiFi drivers. So as far as LibreELEC official support is concerned, there isn't likely to be any for the 8812BU at this point in time, but maybe with LE10.
Thanks for the response milhouse, I've had nothing but problems with realtek dongles, so sending this one back and will try one with a ralink chipset instead.
I'd like to use to internal one on the rpi3 but the signal quality is awful..
Do you have any recommendations for a good wifi dongle for the pi3?
Kindest Regards
Bucky
(2017-12-16, 15:32)bmonster Wrote: Do you have any recommendations for a good wifi dongle for the pi3?The official Raspberry Pi WiFi adapter and slightly more expensive WiPi adapter have good in-kernel driver support (based on BCM43143), the only possible downside is that they're both 2.4Ghz only (and sold out at the first link I could find!)
(2017-12-16, 17:21)Milhouse Wrote:Thanks for your advise, I've ordered a couple of different ones, one broadcom and one ralink, hopefully ill have some luck..(2017-12-16, 15:32)bmonster Wrote: Do you have any recommendations for a good wifi dongle for the pi3?The official Raspberry Pi WiFi adapter and slightly more expensive WiPi adapter have good in-kernel driver support (based on BCM43143), the only possible downside is that they're both 2.4Ghz only (and sold out at the first link I could find!)
The problem with making recommendations particularly with the cheap WiFi dongles is that it's difficult to know what chipset any particular product is using this week - some dongles have been known to change chipset mid-production without changing the model number, and the new chipset may not work as well (or at all) as the old chipset.
This RPi wiki page has details about various dongles and adapters that work with Raspbian, but as a rule of thumb I'd just avoid anything based on Realtek.
# uname -a
Linux rpi512 4.14.6 #1 Sat Dec 16 23:49:34 GMT 2017 armv6l GNU/Linux
# vcgencmd version
Dec 1 2017 16:20:32
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 38ac72569d7fbd7cf75754d9f14c2495416aaee7 (clean) (release)
# lsb_release
LibreELEC (Milhouse): devel-20171216234826-#1216-ga059cd6 [Build #1216]
# Kodi version
(18.0-ALPHA1 Git:f02487e). Platform: Linux ARM 32-bit
(2017-12-17, 03:53)smp1 Wrote: Kodi always crashes when entering "PVR & Live TV" --> "Client specific settings". Seem to be specific to LibreELEC (RPi2?), can't reproduce this on Ubuntu PC.
Crashlog
) when the crash started might help narrow it down.
# uname -a
Linux rpi512 4.14.6 #1 Sun Dec 17 21:14:09 GMT 2017 armv6l GNU/Linux
# vcgencmd version
Dec 1 2017 16:20:32
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 38ac72569d7fbd7cf75754d9f14c2495416aaee7 (clean) (release)
# lsb_release
LibreELEC (Milhouse): devel-20171217210935-#1217-g4fcd5b3 [Build #1217]
# Kodi version
(18.0-ALPHA1 Git:66c8cac). Platform: Linux ARM 32-bit
(2017-12-18, 11:54)linkinsoldier Wrote: @Milhouse: to play Arcade games, I had to change the extension handling for .zip files. Can you maybe add this to your builds so other people will also benefit from it?
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid2562983
(2017-12-18, 12:00)Milhouse Wrote:Okay thanks! Maybe we should think about an extended playback option ("Start Emulations") instead of "Play" so one could start the game without the advanced settings.xml(2017-12-18, 11:54)linkinsoldier Wrote: @Milhouse: to play Arcade games, I had to change the extension handling for .zip files. Can you maybe add this to your builds so other people will also benefit from it?
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid2562983
I suspect that will cause problems for people playing video ISOs, or music cue files, so it's not something I'll add to these builds just yet as it's a very specific fix/workaround for gamers which may have unwanted side effects for non-gamers.
(2017-12-18, 11:54)linkinsoldier Wrote: @garbear: Didnt find this in the release notes, but the "ps3 controller always is mapped to player 1 AND player 2" bug is solved with the release 1207. I can play GB, NES, SNES, and Arcade Games with the PS3 controller! AWESOME - thank you for the christmas present!
Can you link to the post where you originally reported the bug?(2017-12-18, 12:33)linkinsoldier Wrote:(2017-12-18, 12:00)Milhouse Wrote:Okay thanks! Maybe we should think about an extended playback option ("Start Emulations") instead of "Play" so one could start the game without the advanced settings.xml(2017-12-18, 11:54)linkinsoldier Wrote: @Milhouse: to play Arcade games, I had to change the extension handling for .zip files. Can you maybe add this to your builds so other people will also benefit from it?
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid2562983
I suspect that will cause problems for people playing video ISOs, or music cue files, so it's not something I'll add to these builds just yet as it's a very specific fix/workaround for gamers which may have unwanted side effects for non-gamers.
