I'm having an issue where the prebuilt images dowloaded from https://www.armbian.com/radxa-rock-5c/ (released on Oct 12, 2024) works fine, including WiFi connectivity, even after reboots, but the moment I updgrade the packages (apt update && apt upgrade) and reboot the system, the WiFi network interface (wlan0) simply disappears and can I no longer search or connect to any wireless network.I've flashed both Bookworm Minimal/IOT and Server/CLI Bookworm, e the issue always occur after upgradin packages.

 

the wlan0 does not appear on iwctl neither ip address commands, but the device (AIC Wlan) still appears on lsusb command:

$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 004: ID a69c:8d80 aicsemi AIC Wlan
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 1a40:0101 Terminus Technology Inc. Hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

armbianmonitor output:
https://paste.armbian.com/oqewipobin

 

I don't know if there is an issue with the newest kernel update, or if there is some overlay or kernel module for the AIC Wlan chip that is being erased/disabled during the kernel update process.

Is there something I can try to reenable the wlan0 interface? or is it just a bronken update?

Edited November 4, 20241 yr by oqewipobin
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Looks like installing/reinstalling the Radxa provided packages for aic8800 (https://github.com/radxa-pkg/aic8800/releases) kernel modules AFTER the kernel update makes the WiFi module work again.

What packages did you install? The release page from Radxa contains several packages and I am not sure, which should I use.

Same for me.

Installed

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Armbian_24.8.4_Rock-5c_bookworm_vendor_6.1.75-backported-mesa.img

to eMMc card, installation / configuration for 1st time without problem also with using WIFI connection.

List of modules after installation:

 

Then after apt update/upgrade wifi stop working, module was not found or somehow broken.

What I found out, that upgrade Armbian deletes all aic8800 modules:

 

After rebooting system, modules were not loaded and modprobe of them don't work either.

 

Upgrade installs newer versions of

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linux-headers-vendor-rk35xx

linux-image-vendor-rk35xx

linux-dtb-vendor-rk35xx

to version 24.11.1 from 24.8.4

Edited November 18, 20241 yr by tom_i

dmesg found it.. but 

[   12.854279] usb 7-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=a69c, idProduct=8d80, bcdDevice= 1.00
[   12.854323] usb 7-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[   12.854353] usb 7-1.3: Product: AIC Wlan
[   12.854378] usb 7-1.3: Manufacturer: aicsemi
[   12.854403] usb 7-1.3: SerialNumber: 20220103

...

[   14.555712] aicbsp_init
[   14.555720] RELEASE_DATE:2024_0109_ec460377
[   14.555724] aicbsp_resv_mem_init
[   14.557550] systemd[1]: Starting systemd-sysusers.service - Create System Users...
[   14.567717] aicbsp: aicbsp_set_subsys, subsys: AIC_WIFI, state to: 1
[   14.567736] aicbsp: aicbsp_set_subsys, power state change to 1 dure to AIC_WIFI
[   14.567741] aicbsp: aicbsp_platform_power_on

7 hours ago, tom_i said:

Installed

Test most recent builds: (still in testing)
https://rsync.armbian.com/incoming/schwar3kat/rock-5c/archive/

I've just tried Armbian_24.11.1_Rock-5c_bookworm_edge_6.11.7_minimal.img
wlan works.

No ZFS, however. Building zfs-dkms fails, from /var/lib/dkms/zfs/2.2.5/build/make.log: 

   93 | #error "Unsupported kernel"

According to https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases:

zfs-2.2.5 is compatible with 4.18 - 6.9 kernels
zfs-2.2.6 is compatible with 4.18 - 6.10 kernels
zfs-2.3.0 would be compatible with Linux kernels 4.18 - 6.11

Armbian_24.8.4_Rock-5c_bookworm_vendor_6.1.75_minimal.img - ZFS OK, wlan after 'apt upgrade' not anymore.

 

But
$ /sudo dkms install aic8800-usb/3.0+git20240327.3561b08f-2
does the trick.
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Sign command: /lib/modules/6.1.75-vendor-rk35xx/build/scripts/sign-file
Binary /lib/modules/6.1.75-vendor-rk35xx/build/scripts/sign-file not found, modules won't be signed
Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/aic8800-usb/3.0+git20240327.3561b08f-2/source -> /usr/src/aic8800-usb-3.0+git20240327.3561b08f-2

Building module:
Cleaning build area...(bad exit status: 2)
make -j8 KERNELRELEASE=6.1.75-vendor-rk35xx -C /lib/modules/6.1.75-vendor-rk35xx/build M=/var/lib/dkms/aic8800-usb/3.0+git20240327.3561b08f-2/build/USB/driver_fw/drivers/aic8800 && make -C /lib/modules/6.1.75-vendor-rk35xx/build M=/var/lib/dkms/aic8800-usb/3.0+git20240327.3561b08f-2/build/USB/driver_fw/drivers/aic_btusb.......
....
depmod...
--------

root@rock-5c:~# iw phy0 info
Wiphy phy0
    wiphy index: 0
    max # scan SSIDs: 3
    max scan IEs length: 200 bytes
    max # sched scan SSIDs: 0
    max # match sets: 0
    Retry short limit: 7
    Retry long limit: 4
    Coverage class: 0 (up to 0m)
    Device supports RSN-IBSS.
    Device supports AP-side u-APSD.
    Supported Ciphers:
        * WEP40 (00-0f-ac:1)
        * WEP104 (00-0f-ac:5)
        * TKIP (00-0f-ac:2)
....

Regards,
Chris
 

I can confirm this issue. Tested on the following images:

* Armbian_24.11.1_Rock-5c_noble_vendor_6.1.75_gnome-kisak_desktop.img.xz

* Custom build image (vendor kernel 6.1 + GNOME)

 

When updating the kernel, the aic8800-usb DKMS driver is removed from the old kernel, but not reinstalled on the new kernel.

This can easily be fixed afterwards by running the following command: `sudo dpkg-reconfigure aic8800-usb-dkms`, which will recompile and install the kernel module again.

 

I was playing around with Radxa's own Debian based image as well. When compiling a custom kernel with their `bsp` tool and installing it, the same thing happens. Therefore I believe this to be an upstream issue with the aic8800 deb packages. Maybe with the way they register the driver using DKMS...

 

Edited December 8, 20241 yr by Sander de Leeuw

@Sander de Leeuw thx for the solution, one thing is strange after applying it, an additional device apears which is not the wifi adapter of the rockt 5c

 

p2p-dev-wlan0: disconnected
        "p2p-dev-wlan0"
        wifi-p2p, hw