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Fix Boot Wifi with some hacks and a Init.d Script
The Problem : Cant boot with Wifi Kernel Module
 
After many hours of try and fail (almost fail),
I resolve the problem of Boot with Wifi with lots of pacience and despair,
and the precious help of @balbes150 and @guidol, and Armbian Forum
 
The above "solution works" with
+ AlfaWise H96 Pro+ and
+ 3.14 Kernel Based` image (thank for the tip @balbes150) > Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20180225.img.xz,

belive me its not pretty/elegant solution, is more a despair solution........
 
First remove all modules from `/etc/modules` to leave it initialization for `init.d` script clean,
I leave the comments, just has a note of my adventure in /etc/modules file LOL

 
$ cat /etc/modules #aml_nftl_dev #wifi_dummy #cfg80211 #dhd #wlan Next Create a `init.d` hacked script, with some magic and optimized sleeps, without that sleep times or with lower times it wont work,
Its very strange, I must load and unload module, and reload again, but its seems the only way to put this working,
I know its too strange, and hard to find, maybe someone has a better ways, I believe with some knowledge its easy,
 
Why its working only that way? 
don't ask me why, I don't care, for me its not pretty, but its ugly and working,
I'm happy with it, who cares, I don't waste more time for an elegant and pretty solution......
 
move on.....the `init.d` script
 
$ sudo nano /etc/init.d/wlan #! /bin/sh # /etc/init.d/wlan # ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: wlan # Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog # Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: AlfaWise H96 Pro+ Wireless Boot Script # Description: This file should be used to construct scripts to be # placed in /etc/init.d. This example start a # single forking daemon capable of writing a pid # file. To get other behavoirs, implemend # do_start(), do_stop() or other functions to # override the defaults in /lib/init/init-d-script. ### END INIT INFO # Some things that run always touch /var/lock/wlan # Carry out specific functions when asked to by the system case "$1" in start) echo "Starting Wlan Script" echo "modprobe wlan" /sbin/modprobe wlan echo "modprobe wlan -r in 28sec..." sleep 28 /sbin/modprobe wlan -r echo "modprobe lan in 28sec..." sleep 28 echo "modprobe wlan..." /sbin/modprobe wlan ;; stop) echo "Stopping script wlan" /sbin/modprobe wlan -r ;; *) echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/wlan {start|stop}" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0  
After boot inspect unload/load driver with
 
sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep wlan  
Install systemd service
 
$ sudo systemctl enable wlan  
reboot to test if work
 
$ sudo reboot  
in other pc ping the wifi ip and wait it responds without do anything, here it starts respond after 2minutes, not bad since reboot, shutdown and boot
 
I tested with a lots of combinations, modules, timers, I don't know the things I try,
but for me it only work that way on boot, maybe someone with knowledge can explain why this driver don't boot, or boot in a state that is faulty, and useless, and must be up, down and up again with this sleep times......
 
some info after login

 
$ lsmod Module Size Used by wlan 3435325 0 zram 8953 8 cfg80211 415017 1 wlan ch341 5434 0 I anybody has questions, say so

thanks to all 

Thanks koakh, works great for my h96 pro+ wifi (qca9377), now it works on bootup.
 
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also if anyone has any ideas on my next problem let me know, I am using Armbian_5.41_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_mate_20180307.img (mali6), and overall it works great, is it possible to get hardware accelerated video to work or  videos to play better fullscreen, I tried several software smplayer, vlc, xine (a little better then others),mpv  and all are pretty laggy (unwatchable), window mode they play ok , kodi crashes the display.