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[ciciol]

Hi,
I have VU+ Zero 4K on OpenPli 8.3 and I bought a Tp-link archer t2u nano network card for it. The tuner doesn't see it. How to add drivers for the WIFI network to work? Can I ask for help step by step, what to do? Regards

[WanWizard]

To know which driver is needed you need to know which chipset is used. And for that you need to know the USB ID of the device.

 

You can find that if you plug it into a Windows system and check the properties, or on linux issue the command "lsusb" and compare the before and after you've plugged the device in.

 

Post the USB ID here, and we can check which driver is needed, if we have that driver, and if the driver we have does support that USB ID.

[s3n0]

Hi.

 

According to the information on the website from there: http://en.techinfode...Archer_T2U_Nano

 

...it should be a Realtek chipset: rtl8811au

 

Unfortunately, it looks like OpenPLi only supports 8812au chipsets, but not 8811au.

[WanWizard]

Some drivers support multiple chupsets. We won't know until we have the USB ID.

[s3n0]

Hi @WanWizard .

 

This can also be found on the mentioned website. But it can also be found anywhere else. It is the following USB ID:

 

USB ID: 2357:011E
Windows: USB\VID_2357&PID_011E

 

When I searched the internet, I found, for example, a universal Linux driver originally intended for the 8821au chipset (not a typo !):

https://github.com/m...8821au-20210708

And of course even there the VID:PID for the "Nano" edition of this USB WiFi dongle match:

https://github.com/m...usb_intf.c#L218

 

It could also be some other HW revision and maybe the PID will also change in it. But that only happens sometimes.

 

I recently had similar problems in the OpenATV image, with two tested USB WiFi dongles. I was looking for a working USB WiFi dongle. Unfortunately, my problem is only partially solved. I don't want to refer here to another discussion forum and moreover to the competing Enigma2 distribution. I don't know if it is allowed here :-). On my first Vu+ Zero 4K set-top box, both USB WiFi dongles work, one of which only after my shell-script patching (disconnecting the USB mass storage device, which is the installer inside the USB WiFi dongle). And on the second set-top box Formuler F4-Turbo, unfortunately only one USB WiFi dongle out of two works.

Edited by s3n0, 15 October 2023 - 10:33.

[WanWizard]

When it comes to USB support, everything boils down to having a driver that supports the USB ID of the device.

 

This comes with a few challenges:

• for official drivers you are dependent on the linux kernel version. most STBs run on an ancient kernel, and backporting drivers is a very complex task, so if only supported in a newer kernel, you're out of luck
• for out-of-tree drivers, you need source that supports all kernel versions used (3.2 to 5.15 at the moment) so it doesn't crash the build

Multi mode USB devices are an absolute pain in this respect, not only wifi devices may have this problem, also most GSM/3G/4G devices do. I struggled for weeks with a ZTE dongle. They are all designed for Windows which doesn't have mode issues.

For linux you have usbmodeswitch that allows you do deal with that, but no idea if that is available in OpenEmbedded. If you needed scripts, I guess not.

 

I can try adding the 8821au driver, but no idea when I will have time for it.

[WanWizard]

I've done some research, it should be supported by the 8812au driver, which we have, but it doesn't include this USB ID.

 

I've updated the vendor ID patch to include 2357:011E ( https://github.com/O...4d7e69d74be9aa3 ) which will be avaiable in the nightly build sometime tomorrow.

 

If @ciciol is willing to test if that works sometime (after) tomorrow?

 

You need to install the driver, either using Package Management in the software management plugin, or on the commandline using

opkg update
opkg install kernel-module-8812au

plug the device in, and reboot the box.
 

Edited by WanWizard, 16 October 2023 - 16:38.

[grox]

@wanwizard, I have the same USB adapter and I just tried this.

Clean install the nightly built and the wifi is not selectable, only LAN.

I've tried in Putty as well, but it says no package installed (means it is already in the built?)

 

Tried on openpli 9 as well but also no luck.

How to setup wifi in openpli?

[WanWizard]

I've tried in Putty as well, but it says no package installed (means it is already in the built?)

 

Checked, the BSP doesn't install it by default, and we add it to optional packages.

 

Which box do you have? The 8812au driver is only compatible with linux kernels version 4.0 and above.

 

You can do

opkg list-installed | grep 8812au

to check if the driver it is installed, and

dmesg

directly after a boot to see if it detected and the driver is loaded.

[WanWizard]

Hmmm, it is only built for

./lunix3_4k/kernel-module-8812au_4.3.14-r0.5_lunix3_4k.ipk
./vuuno/kernel-module-8812au_4.3.14-r0.2_vuuno.ipk
./galaxy4k/kernel-module-8812au_4.3.14-r0.3_galaxy4k.ipk
./vusolo/kernel-module-8812au_4.3.14-r0.2_vusolo.ipk
./revo4k/kernel-module-8812au_4.3.14-r0.3_revo4k.ipk
./vuduo/kernel-module-8812au_4.3.14-r0.2_vuduo.ipk
./et5x00/kernel-module-8812au_4.3.14-r0.2_et5x00.ipk
./et9x00/kernel-module-8812au_4.3.14-r0.2_et9x00.ipk
./vuduo2/kernel-module-8812au_4.3.14-r0.2_vuduo2.ipk
./vusolo2/kernel-module-8812au_4.3.14-r0.5_vusolo2.ipk
./vusolo4k/kernel-module-8812au_4.3.14-r0.3_vusolo4k.ipk
./vuzero/kernel-module-8812au_4.3.14-r0.2_vuzero.ipk
./vuultimo/kernel-module-8812au_4.3.14-r0.2_vuultimo.ipk
./vuuno4k/kernel-module-8812au_4.3.14-r0.3_vuuno4k.ipk
./et6x00/kernel-module-8812au_4.3.14-r0.2_et6x00.ipk
./vusolose/kernel-module-8812au_4.3.14-r0.2_vusolose.ipk
./vuultimo4k/kernel-module-8812au_4.3.14-r0.6_vuultimo4k.ipk

which are all 3.14 kernels. So this needs looking at.

[grox]

I also have a zero 4k, just as the topicstarter.
Hope you could find a solution!

[WanWizard]

Working on it. A test build run was started about 30 minutes ago, we'll know tomorrow if the fix has fixed it .

[grox]

Is it possible to manual install it?
I want to setup openpli 9.0 rather than daily, of possible. Or is it in that build as well?

[s3n0]

Is it possible to manual install it?
I want to setup openpli 9.0 rather than daily, of possible. Or is it in that build as well?

 

 

Post No.7: https://forums.openp...d/#entry1572874

 

But in my opinion, you should also find this in the Plugin MENU, normally through the GUI (with the help of the RCU - sitting in front of your TV / set-top box).

[grox]

Tried that on openpli 9.0, no succes:

No packages installed or removed.

 

USB stick is not visible in the setup or in adapter settings.

 

Will try now on daily build.

[40H3X]

@WanWizard is looking at it, as these are drivers and are build against a kernel version, please be patience if @WanWizard succeeds he will surely report back

[s3n0]

@grox you probably have to wait a little longer until the patched kernel-module appears on the PLi servers (on the "feed").

 

Then, if you have already installed this kernel-module before, you must of course re-install the new patched kernel-module. First remove the old one and then install the new one:

opkg remove kernel-module-8812au
opkg update
opkg install kernel-module-8812au
reboot

Or... also you can to use the OpenPLi update (via GUI MENU with the help of RCU) and I think that will be enough to do. This will also automatically update this kernel-module for the 8812au chipset (which will also include the 8811au chipset).

[WanWizard]

@WanWizard is looking at it, as these are drivers and are build against a kernel version, please be patience if @WanWizard succeeds he will surely report back

 

Yes, working on it.

 

Found the issue last night, currently a develop build is running to test the fix. When it works, I can backport it to 9.0-release and run a new build for that too.

 

This takes a while, even on a 20-core server a build run takes at least 16 hours...

 

@S3no,

 

That won't work, as the problem is the module isn't being built due to an issue with kernel version detection.

[40H3X]

[WanWizard]

Driver has built succesfully in develop. I've just backported the fixes and started a new 9.0-release build.