BPI-R64 + Armbian

frank-w · May 5, 2020, 3:47pm

mifvi · May 22, 2020, 2:17pm

Is it possible to install your kernel in armbian? For example 4.19.X. for BPI-R2 ?

frank-w · May 22, 2020, 2:34pm

Basicly this should be possible, but i don’t know way to change the kernelfile to be booted in uboot for armbian…i guess the way is bit different

mifvi · May 22, 2020, 4:42pm

Well, that’s all clear.

Then another question: Is there any instruction on how to configure in armbian internal wifi for PI-R2. By default, it is disabled, and an attempt to use a wifi script causes an error.

frank-w · May 22, 2020, 5:12pm

I guess armbian kernel has not included the wifi driver which is too large and dirty.

mifvi · May 22, 2020, 5:59pm

The armbian website says: onboard wireless is too fragile, disabled by default.

This probably means that there are probably drivers, but do you need to enable them somehow when building the kernel? But unfortunately the link on their site is not working, error 404. Has anyone tried this?

frank-w · May 22, 2020, 6:35pm

I guess (if they included driver) the code is taken from my repo and should be located in drivers/misc/mediatek

If you have this folder (does not exist in mainline) you can enable it with these options

github.com

frank-w/BPI-R2-4.14/blob/5.7-rc/arch/arm/configs/mt7623n_evb_fwu_defconfig#L433


CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_GPIO=y
CONFIG_GPIO_SYSFS=y


#wlan
CONFIG_MAC80211=y
CONFIG_CFG80211=y


#internal wlan (not working yet)
# CONFIG_MTK_CONN_LTE_IDC_SUPPORT is not set
CONFIG_MTK_COMBO=y
CONFIG_MTK_COMBO_CHIP_CONSYS_7623=y
#used in 4.4, but should be set in Kconfig by selecting mt7623 COMBO
CONFIG_MTK_PLATFORM="mt7623"


CONFIG_MTK_COMBO_COMM=y
CONFIG_MTK_COMBO_WIFI=y
CONFIG_NL80211_TESTMODE=y


#internal Bluetooth (also not working yet)
CONFIG_BT=y

I see that it is mentioned as not working but works so far…just ignore comment.but this thread is about r64…