Hi Igor,

 

first of all I want to thank you for your amazing work. It's quite a huge thing you have here.

I have the Problem, that I can't get the wifi module on my Banana pro working, both in wheezy and jessie with kernel 3.4 with the image from 21.5.. I added ap6210 to /etc/modules, but wifi chip doesn't power up.

Any idea what could cause the problem?

I Attached a log from my boot in case you'd like to take a look

 

Greetings

Jonas

boot-log_jessie.txt

Check / add this:

http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/22-wlan-on-ct-not-working/?p=85

 

You can use the same module as on Cubietruck. Chips are almost identical, drivers too. Both shows some extra warning and errors but the work. Actually quite ok.

 

On wheezy you need only to load module bcmdhd with op_mode=2 in:

 

/etc/modules

I still can't get wifi up. Both with wheezy and jessie with kernel 3.4.

For exmple in wheezy (modprobe and adding an entry in /etc/modules has the same effect doesn't it? I tried both versions):

root@bananapi:~# modprobe bcmdhd
<4>pm: parse wifi_used failed
<6>bcmdhd: got gpio2, mapped to irqno-22
dhd_customer_gpio_wlan_ctrl: call customer specific GPIO to turn on WL_REG_ON
[wifi_pm]: No select wifi, please check your config !!
=========== WLAN placed in POWER ON ========

failed to power up wifi chip, retry again (4 left) **

dhd_customer_gpio_wlan_ctrl: call customer specific GPIO to turn off WL_REG_ON
[wifi_pm]: No select wifi, please check your config !!
=========== WLAN placed in POWER OFF ========
dhd_customer_gpio_wlan_ctrl: call customer specific GPIO to turn on WL_REG_ON
[wifi_pm]: No select wifi, please check your config !!
=========== WLAN placed in POWER ON ========

failed to power up wifi chip, retry again (3 left) **

dhd_customer_gpio_wlan_ctrl: call customer specific GPIO to turn off WL_REG_ON
[wifi_pm]: No select wifi, please check your config !!
=========== WLAN placed in POWER OFF ========
dhd_customer_gpio_wlan_ctrl: call customer specific GPIO to turn on WL_REG_ON
[wifi_pm]: No select wifi, please check your config !!
=========== WLAN placed in POWER ON ========

failed to power up wifi chip, retry again (2 left) **

dhd_customer_gpio_wlan_ctrl: call customer specific GPIO to turn off WL_REG_ON
[wifi_pm]: No select wifi, please check your config !!
=========== WLAN placed in POWER OFF ========
dhd_customer_gpio_wlan_ctrl: call customer specific GPIO to turn on WL_REG_ON
[wifi_pm]: No select wifi, please check your config !!
=========== WLAN placed in POWER ON ========

failed to power up wifi chip, retry again (1 left) **

dhd_customer_gpio_wlan_ctrl: call customer specific GPIO to turn off WL_REG_ON
[wifi_pm]: No select wifi, please check your config !!
=========== WLAN placed in POWER OFF ========

failed to power up wifi chip, max retry reached, exits **

ERROR: could not insert 'bcmdhd': No such device

Also I'm not sure which image to use at all. For my project I need wifi in AP-mode and I2S. Which image would you recommend?

 

 

No select wifi, please check your config

 

It looks like you are not using proper script.bin file?

 

Where is your /boot/script.bin pointing to? It must be to the bananapro.bin

script.bin -> /boot/bin/bananapipro.bin

 

 

Also I'm not sure which image to use at all. For my project I need wifi in AP-mode and I2S. Which image would you recommend?

 

Just get the latest 3.4.107 and you will be fine. Get Wheezy if you don't want to find new problems.

I did indeed use the wrong script.bin, I now linked to /boot/bin/bananapipro.bin and bcmdhd still doesn't work, but ap6210 does work. Thank you!

AP in bridge mode works with module ap6210, now I'm trying to let it work as dhcp-server via dnsmasq.

Hello Igor

with a Banana Pro using this:

uname -a
Linux bananapi 4.0.4-bananapi #6 SMP Thu May 21 21:58:45 CEST 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux

I can't have the internal Wi-Fi up, I try adding to /etc/modules ap6210, ap6181 and bcmdhd.

I try to use only wlan and disabled the eth part of the /etc/network/interfaces

The script.bin is linking to /boot/bin/bananapipro.bin

But always receive a message when I test:

modprobe ap6210
FATAL: Module ap6210 not found

Please, can you help me?

Yes. On kernel 4.x we have yet another driver

brcmfmac

 

and script.bin is not relevant any more. We have dtb (/boot/dtb/bananapi.dtb). You might need to rename / copy bananapipro.dtb to bananapi.dtb that everything will work.

OK, Igor, thanks.

Actually is:

 

cp sun7i-a20-bananapro.dtb sun7i-a20-bananapi.dtb

 

Kind regards.

I'm having a lot of problems to bring to life the internal Wi-Fi.

Finally i installed the minimal desktop enviroment and "wicd" and using this, finally I can do the Wi-Fi stay up and running.

I need to do more test: headless mode, fixed IP, ...

Thanks