Re: Cubietruck install - no wlan?
On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 13:49 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> Clean install of Jessie - no wlan appears to be detected even after
> installing firmware-brcm80211 and adding the text file.
>
> Install of Debian using Debian SD card image and a USB stick with hd-media and debian-arm CD1.
>
> Wireless _used_ to work :( now not detected - no wireless extensions appear
>
> Anybody seen similar?
It's working here with:
root@cubietruck:~# dpkg -l firmware\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=======================-================-================-====================================================
ii firmware-brcm80211 0.43 all Binary firmware for Broadcom 802.11 wireless cards
ii firmware-linux-free 3.3 all Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux ker
root@cubietruck:~# dpkg -l linux-image\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=======================-================-================-====================================================
ii linux-image-3.16.0-4-ar 3.16.7-ckt9-2 armhf Linux 3.16 for ARMv7 multiplatform compatible SoCs s
ii linux-image-armmp-lpae 3.16+63 armhf Linux for ARMv7 multiplatform compatible SoCs suppor
root@cubietruck:~# uname -a
Linux cubietruck 3.16.0-4-armmp-lpae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt9-2 (2015-04-13) armv7l GNU/Linux
root@cubietruck:~# iwconfig
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on
[...]
root@cubietruck:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces
[...]
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ap-scan 1
wpa-scan-ssid 1
wpa-ssid XXX
wpa-psk XXX
Ian.
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