Cant make WiFi working on ROCK64.

[vieirabrazil]

Hi People!

I have 2 usb dongles for WiFi, but none of them are working in Rock64.

First one is a TP-Link WN721N uses AR9271 chip and is not accepted.

The second is a DLink DWA-123 uses RTL8188EU driver and is not accepted.
I think this is the same used in the dongle sold originaly by Pine site.

I running a Rock64 board with 2 Rb of Ram.

S.O. = MATE 1.12.1
Release 16.04.3 LTS (Xenial Xerus) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 4.4.77-rockchip-ayufan-136 aarch64

Running ifconfig only lo and eth0 are shown.

Running iwconfig only lo and eth0 are shown.

With tplink atached:

rock64@rock64:~$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 045e:0745 Microsoft Corp. Nano Transceiver v1.0 for Bluetooth
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
rock64@rock64:~$



With D-Link atached to USB 2.0:

rock64@rock64:~$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:0745 Microsoft Corp. Nano Transceiver v1.0 for Bluetooth
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 2001:3310 D-Link Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub


My system is updated.

rock64@rock64:~$ sudo apt update
[sudo] password for rock64:
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ayufan/rock64-ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial InRelease              
Get:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Get:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]   
Get:5 http://deb.ayufan.eu/orgs/ayufan-rock64/releases  InRelease [1,245 B]    
Fetched 206 kB in 3s (52.3 kB/s)                                               
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
rock64@rock64:~$



dmesg for DLink:

[ 2356.031492] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using dwc2
[ 2356.494490] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=2001, idProduct=3310
[ 2356.494522] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2356.494543] usb 1-1: Product: DWA-123 11n Adapter
[ 2356.494563] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Realtek
[ 2356.494582] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: C0A0BB58700D


More information:

zgrep -i rtl /proc/config.gz
CONFIG_BT_RTL=y
CONFIG_BT_HCIBTUSB_RTL=y
CONFIG_USB_RTL8150=m
CONFIG_USB_RTL8152=m
# CONFIG_RTL8180 is not set
CONFIG_RTL8187=m
CONFIG_RTL8187_LEDS=y
CONFIG_RTL_CARDS=y
# CONFIG_RTL8192CE is not set
# CONFIG_RTL8192SE is not set
# CONFIG_RTL8192DE is not set
# CONFIG_RTL8723AE is not set
# CONFIG_RTL8723BE is not set
# CONFIG_RTL8188EE is not set
# CONFIG_RTL8192EE is not set
# CONFIG_RTL8821AE is not set
CONFIG_RTL8192CU=m
CONFIG_RTLWIFI=m
CONFIG_RTLWIFI_USB=m
CONFIG_RTLWIFI_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_RTL8192C_COMMON=m
CONFIG_RTL8XXXU=m
CONFIG_RTL8XXXU_UNTESTED=y
# CONFIG_RTL_WIRELESS_SOLUTION is not set
CONFIG_RTL8188EU=m
CONFIG_RTL8188FU=m
# CONFIG_RTL8189ES is not set
# CONFIG_RTL8189FS is not set
# CONFIG_RTL8723BS is not set
# CONFIG_RTL8723CS is not set
# CONFIG_RTL8723DS is not set
# CONFIG_RTL8822BE is not set
# CONFIG_SERIAL_UARTLITE is not set
CONFIG_DVB_USB_RTL28XXU=m
CONFIG_DVB_RTL2830=m
CONFIG_DVB_RTL2832=m
CONFIG_DVB_RTL2832_SDR=m
# CONFIG_RTL8192U is not set
# CONFIG_RTLLIB is not set
rock64@rock64:~$

modprobe rtl8188eu
modprobe: FATAL: Module rtl8188eu not found in directory /lib/modules/4.4.77-rockchip-ayufan-136

Well, what can I do for WiFi to work???

Download something, compile something???

Thanks in advance,

VieiraBrazil