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No wIfI after Mobian update - crakabeats - 05-28-2022
Hello, after updating Mobian three days ago wifi and bluetooth ceased to exist. I have the convergence dongle so was still able to connect to net. Pinephone does not have a SIM at this time. I have reflashed with Postmarket Phosh, Postmarket Smxo, (both are snappy but did not help with the wifi), and am now sitting with Manjaro Phosh. Hitting the wifi icon does nothing in Manjaro. Hitting it in Mobian would toggle but would not find any network. Manjaro just sits there greyed out. I am not familiar with Arch commands but have done the following:
inxi -n results in wlan0 state: down
nmcli g (and r) results WIFI enabled
ip a results in wlan0 DOWN
I have toggled the hardware micro DIP switch at the back on the Pinephone.
Bluetooth in Mobian and Postmarket said to insert a dongle. It's the same chip and switch, but I would just like wifi up. Do I have a wifi brick?
Any ideas anyone?
RE: No wIfI after Mobian update - Stringbean - 08-09-2022
I have a very similar issue, my pinephone has no wifi or bluetooth, they just stopped working suddenly, and booting into a new OS doesn't fix the issue, and I tried a lot of different images. Started happening a few months ago. Only the cellular works.
RE: No wIfI after Mobian update - emsyr - 08-09-2022
Similar problem. Here is my post where I describe it with some detail :
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=17118
RE: No wIfI after Mobian update - wifinoworkie - 11-03-2022
Count me as another dead wifi+bt on PinePhone.
I've barely used this phone, just up and stopped working.
Never got around to getting it even usable as a phone, then hardware fault.
I've not done anything like firmware changes or anything particularly challenging.
I recently revisited it after giving up on making it useful, tried a few different images and then *poof*, up and stopped working.
This seems very much like a fundamental hardware flaw and seems to not be an uncommon problem that probably should find some people getting refunds... You'd hope.
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12667
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=17118
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12126
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12076
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12745
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16734
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12506
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=13013
It would seem from all those threads however that no one has had any positive resolution other than, the hardware is dead.
Maybe I'm not seeing those positive responses but it seems everyone has simply purchased their own replacement hardware?
RE: No wIfI after Mobian update - 98cwitr - 05-10-2024
***This is for PinePhone Pro*** but basically the upgrade removed wlan0 interface (according to dmesg | grep wlan) and the driver needs to be added back for the device to be seen by the OS (nmcli dev show wifi returns nothing)
Old thread but I've found the solution after this just happened to me.
Drop the firmware-brcm80211 package from Debian onto a usb drive (need dock for this) or microsd card and install:
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/all/firmware-brcm80211/download
sudo dpkg -i firmware-brcm80211_20230210-5_all.deb
Reboot and voila...wifi is back!