[PineTab2] Issues with Mobian Networking

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@Cornelia Xaos 

please don't give up! I got my PineTab2 recently and had pretty much the same problem (but another wifi adapter).

I'm not involved in development at all, so what I'm posting here is not a definitive guide, but I asked in mobian matrix/irc channel and Julian helped me out with these steps:

Please enable the staging repository by adding

Code:

deb http://repo.mobian.org/ staging main

to the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mobian.list file, then run

Code:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install linux-image-6.4-rockchip

, and finally, reboot. Your adaptor should then be working.

You will actually also have to add non-free-firmware at the end of the deb http://repo.mobian.org trixie main line in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mobian.list file, and run sudo apt update && sudo apt install firmware-realtek. So, if you haven't already done that, it makes sense to modify the file once, add both things, then run sudo apt update && sudo apt install firmware-realtek linux-image-6.4-rockchip, before then rebooting. That way, everything is done at once.

If you are wondering how to update without working wifi, you can follow this link for connection sharing from your PC via USB https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php...pc-via-usb

Again, I'm not involved in mobian, so these instructions might be already outdated, but I'm sure they are happy to help

It works for me, but the package linux-image-6.4-rockchip doesn't exist. I've installed linux-image-6.6-rockchip instead.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# System update
sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y

#(Optional) USB WiFi drivers
sudo echo "deb http://repo.mobian.org/ staging main non-free-firmware" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt install linux-image-6.6-rockchip