January 20, 20233 yr I know this driver should be part of the recent kernel releases (and definitely avail for 5.10) but I am not sure how/why/where this driver would be in the armbian release. I also did install the firmware files but I don't see the module in the /usr/lib/module section. Any suggestions to build or enable this driver? Â Thanks
January 20, 20233 yr https://github.com/armbian/build#getting-started Build the kernel with the MT76x2U driver, it's disabled by default. Edited January 20, 20233 yr by royk
January 20, 20233 yr Author 2 hours ago, royk said: Build the kernel with the MT76x2U driver, it's disabled by default. Ah thank you - so I started looking into the build. My understanding is that the armbian build generates a new custom image. The tool is quite amazing and straightforward but few questions: - For any updates, would I need to re-build and re-install a new image? - Is there a way I could update my current build using a generated image?
January 20, 20233 yr Solution You could install the kernel from the debs folder, output/debs/linux-image... Mr Hacker😀 When you update the kernel from the apt repository you will loose the WiFi driver again. To build only the kernel as in the manual: ./compile.sh BUILD_ONLY=kernel KERNEL_CONFIGURE=yes BOARD=orangepi5 BRANCH=legacy
January 22, 20233 yr Author On 1/20/2023 at 1:31 PM, royk said: To build only the kernel as in the manual:Â ./compile.sh BUILD_ONLY=kernel KERNEL_CONFIGURE=yes BOARD=orangepi5 BRANCH=legacy Thank you!! I rebuilt the whole image - I can't believe how easy the armbian build system is. Couple questions: 1) Any particular reason many modules are completly disabled from kernel? 2) Would it be worth doing a PR to build the MediaTek drivers as modules?
January 22, 20233 yr 1 hour ago, OttawaHacker said: 1) Any particular reason many modules are completly disabled from kernel? No reason. In this particular case however it might been the influence of the BSP. Â 1 hour ago, OttawaHacker said: 2) Would it be worth doing a PR to build the MediaTek drivers as modules? Well there is no warranty that it gets accepted, however if it is well documented and enabled across all configurations so people/maintainer have a chance to test I don't see a reason against.
January 22, 20233 yr Author 11 hours ago, Werner said: Well there is no warranty that it gets accepted, however if it is well documented and enabled across all configurations so people/maintainer have a chance to test I don't see a reason against. PR was accepted 🙂 so for anyone stumbling on this issue - it should be something of the past https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4727 Edited January 22, 20233 yr by OttawaHacker
January 30, 20233 yr I am trying to install Realtek rtl8822bu driver but having problems... maybe building my own Armbian with builder will solve it?
January 30, 20233 yr I unfrozed kernel on Armbian Config, then i write uname -r and saw i have 5.10.110-rockchip-rk3588 kernel. Then i apt-cache show linux-image*rk3588 and checked the newest kernel is linux-6.2.0-rc2-rockchip-rk3588. But as far as i know linux, i dont know how to update kernel. Can you give me some directions please @Efe Çetin
January 30, 20233 yr Author 2 minutes ago, Vybearz said: Can you give me some directions please All you need to do is unfreeze and enable nightly in armbian-config. Enable nightly will run all the apt updates for you. This should update you to 5.10.110-rockchip-rk3588 #trunk.0211 SMP Sat Jan 28 03:01:04 UTC 2023 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linu  which has a bunch of USB modules enabled Edited January 30, 20233 yr by OttawaHacker
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