Other than emailing the manufacturer and asking them to recompile the driver against our latest kernel source there is not a great deal we can do about it as they are unwilling to share the source for it.
This chipset will probably never be able to be supported in mainline either.
Ahh different forum. Yeah I think there may be more differences emerge between LE and CE as time goes by. They’ve split for a reason and, consequently, we’re bound to see differences in the two different directions as time goes by.
It may well be, I can’t suggest anything else since I dont have a box with that WiFi chip (hence the suggestion to roll it back and find out if it ever did work).
It’s not obvious to the end user but the devs here are constantly monitoring the advances in other builds, in their efforts to keep everyone happy. Judging by Adam’s earlier reply, I think your solution to use a USB WiFI device may be the solution to this issue
The Mecool M8S Pro+ is in that list and have the 9082xs chipset, i was reading that Kszaq already said the driver would no longer be supported in newer versions of the kernel but wrtaxy is releasing new krypton builds (No changes to the original Kernel?) and there it works just like in the old Kszaq builds. At least now we know why it doesn’t work on CoreELEC, whoever wants wifi just has to buy a cheap adapter.
Given the unavailability of the source code and the certainty of updated kernels in the future, there is not much point in asking for a specific kernel build to be made available it seems.
+1 here, except mine uses a 9082xs, a clone of a Realtek chip pointed out by adamg. So, it may be a different story. Let assure it is up running with an RJ45 connection.