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flyingangel
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Activate WLAN

Post by flyingangel »

Hi!

Today I received my Retrostone 2 and I'm very happy with it!

But I have a little problem: Can WLAN be activated in the actual version of retrorangepi, or is it not possible to activate the onboard wifi-chip?

Thanks for your help!
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Re: Activate WLAN

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Currently the wifi/bt chip is disabled by default because it's inducing some lag for an unknown reason. We'll activate it back when root issue will be identified.
This topic is more actively discussed on Retrorangepi forum.
OctavioS
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Re: Activate WLAN

Post by OctavioS »

Hi, I just received my retrostone 2 and for what I see, the problem is still not solved?
j3kz
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Re: Activate WLAN

Post by j3kz »

I received mine yesterday...
I installed http://retrorangepi.download/RetrOrange ... _v3.img.7z
I tried to setup wifi but unfortunately I cannot, no wlan0

dmesg gives one error related:
[ 28.360075] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_p2p_create_p2pdev: timeout occurred
[ 28.360102] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_cfg80211_add_iface: add iface p2p-dev-wlan0 type 10 failed: err=-5
...
[ 42.150702] brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_dpc: failed backplane access over SDIO, halting operation
[ 42.696050] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_fil_cmd_data: bus is down. we have nothing to do.
[ 42.696432] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_fil_cmd_data: bus is down. we have nothing to do.
[ 42.698775] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_fil_cmd_data: bus is down. we have nothing to do.
[ 42.698800] ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_cfg80211_get_channel: chanspec failed (-5)

It seems enabled and but wlan0 cannot start...
jay
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Re: Activate WLAN

Post by jay »

Any movement here? Possible to enable WiFi yet?
mycale
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Re: Activate WLAN

Post by mycale »

I agree. It's been some months. Whats the status?
megashub
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Re: Activate WLAN

Post by megashub »

+1 for this. Any movement on this issue? Just received mine today, and encountered the same problem. Would love to get this fixed.
Sakib
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Re: Activate WLAN

Post by Sakib »

Select Enable From Retropie - Retrorangepi - Wifi Submenu
Then You Select Connect, Then Activate A Connection
Available Access Point Should Appear Listed

Now choose the SSID from that list and type password (Connect a keyboard)
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