Hi all,

 

I have no luck to get wifi work on NanoPi M1 with the usb dongle RLT8188CUS.

 

I have followed the tutorial "OPI ONE wireless success" to config. But, I don't see any "wlan0" or wifi device at all with the usb dongle plugged in. "nmtui" does not detect any wifi device as well.

 

It appears to me that, although armbian recognizes the usb dongle, armbian does not treat it as a wlan0 device. 

 

I very appreciate if anyone can give me some suggestions to diagnose and fix

 

I am using armbian-jessie-server, kernel 3.4.113, jessie 5.23. Below is the info of my board.

 

=== uname -a ===

Linux nanopim1 3.4.113-sun8i #4 SMP PREEMPT Sun Nov 20 09:58:26 CST 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux

 

=== dpkg-query -W -f='${Version}\n' linux-jessie-root-nanopim1 ===

5.23

 

=== lsusb ===

Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter

 

=== lsmod ===

rtl8192cu              61736  0 

rtlwifi                46157  1 rtl8192cu

rtl8192c_common        33398  1 rtl8192cu

mac80211              363748  3 rtlwifi,rtl8192c_common,rtl8192cu

 

=== dmesg ===

[   38.988987] ehci_irq: highspeed device connect

[   39.000794] ehci_irq: highspeed device disconnect

[   39.002524] ehci_irq: highspeed device connect

[   39.250258] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using sunxi-ehci

[   39.556755] rtl8192cu: Chip version 0x10

[   39.664596] rtl8192cu: MAC address: 00:13:ef:63:0c:e9

[   39.675039] rtl8192cu: Board Type 0

[   39.683964] rtlwifi: rx_max_size 15360, rx_urb_num 8, in_ep 1

[   39.695294] rtl8192cu: Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin

[   39.707111] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8192cu

 

=== ifconfig -a ===

lo0

eth0

tunl0

 

=== cat /etc/modules ===

8192cu

 

=== cat /etc/network/interfaces.d/wlan0 ===

# The primary network interface

auto wlan0

allow-hotplug wlan0

iface wlan0 inet static

address 192.168.0.233

netmask 255.255.255.0

gateway 192.168.0.1

wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

 

https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Advanced-Features/#how-to-build-a-wireless-driver

https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=000982265871574218226:y6ys5k7kgoe&q=8192