Hi, I'm facing the same issues. After adding the usb_wifi_para section, my wifi still refuses to work. I'm able to modprobe the module but nothing after that. "wlan0" is not being detected!
On Friday, January 3, 2014 5:30:48 PM UTC+5:30, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > > Hi, > > I have just brought up a new a20 tablet and upgraded the kernel on my > a10 tablet from sunxi-3.0 to sunxi-3.4. And here are my findings. > > My a20 tablet comes with RTL8188ETV wifi, attached to the usbc2 bus. The > 8188eu driver was totally unable to see it until: > a) i explicitely powered on the usbc2 bus from script.bin > b) i added a usb_wifi_para section to script.bin, especially for the > 8188eu driver. > > My a10 tablet was, up until now, happily running sunxi-3.0. The 8192cu > driver on sunxi-3.0 worked with the RTL8188CUS just fine. On sunxi-3.4 > however, it no longer works. It nicely enables the usb bus (which 8188eu > doesn't), but then fails to associate, and this is what it spews: > > ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not permitted > ioctl[SIOCSIWESSID]: Operation not permitted > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument > ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument > ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not permitted > ioctl[SIOCSIWESSID]: Operation not permitted > > 8192cu has regressed directly with the change from sunxi-3.0 to > sunxi-3.4. > > I could of course go and try 8188eu, but for that i have to: > a) explicitely power on the usbc2 bus from script.bin > b) add a usb_wifi_para section to script.bin, especially for the 8188eu > driver. > > You will find the above changes littered across our wiki and poorly > sprinkled into our sunxi-boards. This means that rtl8188* based boards > have mostly broken wifi with the script.bins in sunxi-boards. We also no > longer can claim that we can just grab script.bin from android, and it > will just work. > > This kills one of the main advantages of our project, and puts us in the > same league as all the other ARM SoCs: only a handful of development > boards work. This is totally unacceptable. > > Luc Verhaegen. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
