[SOLVED] Issues with WIFI on cubox-i

[GAZ082]

Hi there. I have a TPLINK dongle with the 8188EU chipset.

When trying to get a connection with wifi-menu i get:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'Scanning for networks... ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not permitted
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
')

And then all wifi detected have 0db signal strength. I could not make a connection.

With the integrated WIFI i have no issues.

What can it be?

Thanks!

[GAZ082]

Any tip?

[moonman]

try dkm-8188eu package. It might be newer than the driver in the kernel.

[GAZ082]

Yes moon, i've been having this issue with your package.

[moonman]

I don't have one of these to test. Are you sure it is that driver loaded and not rtlwifi? Did you blacklist it?

[GAZ082]

Yes, i blacklisted it.

What tests/commands would you like me to run? I'll paste the output here.

[GAZ082]

*Sigh*

I tried working directly with WPA and get:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
#sudo wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/example.conf
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
nl80211: Could not configure driver mode
nl80211: deinit ifname=wlan1 disabled_11b_rates=0
wlan1: Failed to initialize driver interface
')

I cannot set UP the wlan1 interface where the wifi antenna is loaded.

[moonman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'drivers:
nl80211 = Linux nl80211/cfg80211
wext = Linux wireless extensions (generic)
wired = Wired Ethernet driver')

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '-D = driver name (can be multiple drivers: nl80211,wext)')

try with -Dwext

[GAZ082]

Thanks for replying. I get:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '#sudo wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan1 -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/example.conf
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not permitted
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
')

[GAZ082]

The thing is, no matter what i do, cant set the link UP:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether c4:6e:1f:14:4c:39 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff')


$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'wlan1: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether c4:6e:1f:14:4c:39 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0')

Did lsmod and got:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '8188eu 768539 0 ')

Dont know, just throwing random data, perhaps something is useful.