USB Wireless Drivers with Longsleep Linux Kernel

[jacobscarter]

Let me preface this by saying I am a newbie so if I'm missing something easy here or my attempted solutions don't make sense, I apologize in advance.

I am trying to hook up a TP-Link TL-WN725N Wifi USB to my Pine64.  I attempted to download the driver I need but cannot run a `make all` on it.  It looks like the driver I need is rtl8188eu which I got here:

https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu

Looking into the error I get:

"No rule to make target `modules'. Stop."

when trying to run make all it appears to be because i need to run 

"apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)" but this command won't work for Longsleep's custom Kernel build.

Perhaps I can try running "apt-get install linux-headers-generic"

I can see in the kernel drivers (/lib/modules/xxxx/kernel/net/wireless) on the OS there are many drivers installed, closes to what I need being rtl8187.

I have three ideas for solutions but am looking for some guidance/suggestions.

My ideas are:

1) get a wifi dongle that works with one of the installed drivers OR
2) try "apt-get install linux-headers-generic" and run "make all" again OR
3) compile the driver on a VM on my Mac and copy it over to the pine64 (I have no idea if that would work at all but though, why not try)

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated!

Jacob Carter

[longsleep]

Headers are installed in a way out-of-tree modules can be compiled since the latest release (3.10.101-4-pine64-longsleep-51) make sure you have this and it should work. Else post full output to http://paste.ubuntu.com and share the link here.

[jacobscarter]

Headers are installed in a way out-of-tree modules can be compiled since the latest release (3.10.101-4-pine64-longsleep-51) make sure you have this and it should work. Else post full output to http://paste.ubuntu.com and share the link here.

I'm sorry I don't quite understand, I am using the Ubuntu build from this link:

https://www.stdin.xyz/downloads/people/l...es/ubuntu/

When I run uname -r I see "3.10.101-0-pine64-longsleep" but no 51 at the end.  I see your 51 build at this link:

https://www.stdin.xyz/downloads/people/l...ges/linux/

But I only know how to flash the .img to a SD card, I'm not sure what I need to do with the .xz files here to get an image on the SD that will boot in the Pine64.  Do I follow the same process of using the "dd" command?  Perhaps the README.md at this link?:

https://www.stdin.xyz/downloads/people/l...README.txt

If you could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.

**UPDATE**


Re-Installed this img: https://www.stdin.xyz/downloads/people/l...es/ubuntu/

I found this link:

http://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=982

In regards to the "demsg" hundreds of things are printed out and I don't know what I'm looking for.

I had to install "wireless-tools" to be able to run iwconfig but running that showed:

eth0 no wireless extensions

sit0 no wireless extensions

lo no wireless extensions

I again tried to run "make all" on the driver i got from github (see link in original post), also note first I installed "git" and "build-essential".  Here is a link to the error:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/17195195/

Next i tried the github repo's README DKMS instructions to see if that would work.

On the "dkms build" build I got this missing headers error:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/17195303/

This package: "linux-headers-3.10.101-0-pine64-longsleep" does not exist so it cannot be installed.

Any advice would be appreciated.  Thanks.

[longsleep]

You need to read the full post you linked. It has the information how to update the kernel.

[jacobscarter]

You need to read the full post you linked. It has the information how to update the kernel.

I apologize I didn't see that.  I updated the kernel and rebooted. "uname -r" show I have "3.10.101-4-pine64-longsleep".

I still get the same two error when I try and run "make all" on the lwfinger rtl8188eu driver apart from the new kernel version in the output.

http://paste.ubuntu.com/17195195/

Also get the same error when trying to install via dkms except with the new kernel version number.

http://paste.ubuntu.com/17195303/

Should I keep trying to get this driver on the Pine or should I, at this point, just get a wifi dongle that uses one of the drivers you already have on the build?

[longsleep]

You are still compiling for the older kernel according to your log. Check for that directory. It should be there.

[jacobscarter]

You are still compiling for the older kernel according to your log. Check for that directory. It should be there.

Sorry I was saying in my post that the log was the same apart from the updated number, I just made a new link to clear up the confusion:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/17221908/

I checked and the build directory is not there



If I make the build directory and run "make all" I then get this error:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/17231107/

So with my limited knowledge it looks like the problem is the make file doesn't know where to look for the headers.  It is looking in:

"/lib/modules/xxxx/build"

but the build folder is not there.  I can change the makefile to point to the right location unless there should be a build folder there, then that is a different problem.

[longsleep]

Didn't you say there is a dkms package? That should just work - the build folder is not there but there is a symlink to the next necessary folder inside /usr/src.

[jacobscarter]

Didn't you say there is a dkms package? That should just work - the build folder is not there but there is a symlink to the next necessary folder inside /usr/src.

"sudo dkms add ./rtl8188eu" works fine, then on dkms build I get the header error:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/17233816/

It is saying I can specify where to find the headers with the --kernelsourcedir option, would that be:

"/lib/modules/3.10.101-4-pine64-longsleep/kernel" ?

[longsleep]

Kernel headers are in /usr/src/linux-headers-...