As I reported yesterday, after an upgrade, wifi was lost.

Although wlan devices were visible via ifconfig, no connection to AP was possible.

(8192cu driver)

 

Today I tried to have fresh Armbian build , got a 5.23 jessie

login as: root
root@192.168.1.15's password:
 _   _                   ____  _   _   _
| \ | | __ _ _ __   ___ |  _ \(_) | \ | | ___  ___
|  \| |/ _` | '_ \ / _ \| |_) | | |  \| |/ _ \/ _ \
| |\  | (_| | | | | (_) |  __/| | | |\  |  __/ (_) |
|_| \_|\__,_|_| |_|\___/|_|   |_| |_| \_|\___|\___/


Welcome to ARMBIAN Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 3.4.112-rt143-sun8i
System load:   1.31             Up time:       3 min
Memory usage:  15 % of 490Mb    IP:            192.168.10.2,192.168.1.15
CPU temp:      34°C
Usage of /:    8% of 15G


[ 2 updates to install: apt-get upgrade ]

Last login: Wed Oct 26 16:48:52 2016 from 192.168.1.6
root@nanopineo:~#

As you see got the RT also build in 3.4.112-rt143-sun8i

WiFi 8192cu driver was up and running just fine,

 

As there were updates indicated, did the apt-get update and upgrade..

 

After that, AGAIN WiFi (8192cu) got lost and no connection was possible any more.

Tried the armbian-firmware-full, but obviously the firmware there has some difference, the driver is no longer able to connect although shows up in ifconfig.

 

ALSO, the kernel got a different name.. instead of "3.4.112-rt143-sun8i" now the RT was missing from title, dont know if that means anything deeper like RT mods gone for real, but I do report it.

And thats the new banner

login as: root
root@192.168.1.11's password:
 _   _                   ____  _   _   _
| \ | | __ _ _ __   ___ |  _ \(_) | \ | | ___  ___
|  \| |/ _` | '_ \ / _ \| |_) | | |  \| |/ _ \/ _ \
| |\  | (_| | | | | (_) |  __/| | | |\  |  __/ (_) |
|_| \_|\__,_|_| |_|\___/|_|   |_| |_| \_|\___|\___/


Welcome to ARMBIAN Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 3.4.112-sun8i
System load:   0.36             Up time:       1 min
Memory usage:  8 % of 494Mb     IP:            192.168.1.11
CPU temp:      36°C
Usage of /:    8% of 15G

Last login: Wed Oct 26 16:51:18 2016 from 192.168.1.6
root@nanopineo:~# 

So far the experience on upgrade shows that its untrusted at least..

 

One question, guys, is there any chance that my 8192cu driver wifi dongles work again in Armbian as they were a couple of days before?

or should I forget about that?..

 

 

If my OpiPc is any indication, for 8192CU first try

depmod -a as root,

or else build your module locally as per the documentation.

maybe blacklist the rtl8192 module from the kernel.

 

best, gnasch