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+--- Thread: wifi interface on debian (/showthread.php?tid=14956)
wifi interface on debian - mruser1 - 09-24-2021
Hello, anyone knows how to get the wlan working?
Code:
sudo lshw
rock
description: Computer
product: Pine64 RockPro64 v2.1
serial: e42940d2523ce77b
width: 64 bits
capabilities: smp cp15_barrier setend swp tagged_addr_disabled
*-core
...
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 9
logical name: eth0
serial: 42:ff:3e:26:3f:3f
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
capabilities: ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=st_gmac driverversion=Jan_2016 duplex=full ip=192.168.0.199 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
networkctl
IDX LINK TYPE OPERATIONAL SETUP
1 lo loopback carrier unmanaged
2 eth0 ether routable unmanagedRE: wifi interface on debian - mruser1 - 10-09-2021
To my surprise I needed to install closed source binaries to get the wifi working. Is this expected?
Please let me know. I thought that open sw was the main selling point of the pine64 products.
RE: wifi interface on debian - mruser1 - 10-14-2021
Found a related thread here https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7890
that landed here https://github.com/mrfixit2001/recalbox_rockpro64/issues/6.
[url=https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7890][/url]