JackOfAll wrote: 
> For ap6210 firmware, there are several versions of the files floating
> around. The files you want to be using are located here...
> 
> http://dl.cubieboard.org/public/Cubieboard/benn/firmware/ap6210/
> 
> (Hopefully Triode is also using the ap6210 kernel module rather than the
> "original" bcmdhd driver if he is using the SUNXI kernel. Or your
> problems will continue! http://linux-sunxi.org/Cubietruck/AP6210)

Thanks for the pointers.  I don't have a cubietruck, just trying to hlep
those who do and wanted to use SOA. 

Triode's cubietruck installer was built to pull in firmware
http://dl.cubieforums.com/patwood/ap6210.zip and preseeds
"/etc/modules-load.d/cubie.conf" with   bcmdhd as one of a list of
modules.  Clearly this must have been fine at the time. But it seems is
no longer correct.

The installer pulls in "ArchLinuxARM-sun7i-latest.tar.gz" as the root
filesystem, which I think must use the SUNXI kernel, and is currently at
version 3.4.103-5.  The two threads on the arch arm linux forum I linked
to above ( see #1319 ) contain contradictory posts.  One says this:

"-Problem is fixed by module ap6210 that got introduced in 3.4.103-5 and
has to be used instead of bcmdhd.
Regarding WLAN the module behaves the same as bcmdhd. In particular,
it's using the same firmware and doesn't get auto-loaded."
-

I checked the fs tarball does contain a kernel moudle for ap6210, but I
don't know what should be in /lib/firmware. ( Which bits of 
/public/Cubieboard/benn/firmware/ap6210 are relevant and who should they
be used?)

Others say they can't get it to work with the 3.4.103-5 kernel even
after blacklisting bcmdhd.  The only person reporting sucess is after
they first did this: 


Code:
--------------------
    
  wget -O /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43362-sdio.txt 
http://dl.cubieboard.org/public/Cubieboard/benn/firmware/ap6210/nvram_ap6210.txt
  
--------------------


and then replaced the SUNXI kernel with the multi-platform arch arm
kernel and module packag, currently based on kernel 3.19


Code:
--------------------
    
  pacman -Syu linux-armv7
  
--------------------


So, that's about as clear as mud to me.


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