Looking for users with no working WiFi or BT

[RChadwick]

I just got a RTL8671b to replace my old BT adapter (Range was 3 feet), but it says adapter not found. Before beating my head against a wall too much, is this adapter supported?

[Compent]

There is more information in this thread.

You haven’t stated which device you are using and which release of CE you are using.

[worstcase]

Hi. I have an Android Box from China. AIDA 64 gave me this information:

Modell: A95X F2, 4 GB RAM / 64 GB 
Board: A95X_F2
Hardware: amlogic
Product: ampere

I was able to install “CoreELEC-Amlogic-ng.arm-9.2.6-Generic” with the “g12a_s905x2_4g” dtb on it. Now I’m running “CoreELEC 9.2.7” on it.

Wifi works, but Bluetooth doesn’t. Here’s the udevadm info:

P: /devices/platform/ffe05000.sd2/mmc_host/sdio/sdio:0001/sdio:0001:1
L: 0
E: DEVPATH=/devices/platform/ffe05000.sd2/mmc_host/sdio/sdio:0001/sdio:0001:1
E: DRIVER=wlan
E: SDIO_CLASS=00
E: SDIO_ID=037A:7608
E: MODALIAS=sdio:c00v037Ad7608
E: SUBSYSTEM=sdio

P: /devices/platform/ffe05000.sd2/mmc_host/sdio/sdio:0001/sdio:0001:2
L: 0
E: DEVPATH=/devices/platform/ffe05000.sd2/mmc_host/sdio/sdio:0001/sdio:0001:2
E: SDIO_CLASS=00
E: SDIO_ID=037A:7668
E: MODALIAS=sdio:c00v037Ad7668
E: SUBSYSTEM=sdio

Hope that helps! Would be great to get Bluetooth working. For now, I’m using a 8bit-do-Dongle for my controller…

Keep up the good work!

[Portisch]

Try again first with 19.1_rc2 and tomorrow with rc3.
9.2 does not get driver updates anymore.

[worstcase]

Hi Portisch,
I installed 19.1._rc2 and unfortunately Bluetooth is still not working. Here’s the info:

P: /devices/platform/ffe05000.sd2/mmc_host/sdio/sdio:0001/sdio:0001:1
L: 0
E: DEVPATH=/devices/platform/ffe05000.sd2/mmc_host/sdio/sdio:0001/sdio:0001:1
E: DRIVER=wlan
E: SDIO_CLASS=00
E: SDIO_ID=037A:7608
E: MODALIAS=sdio:c00v037Ad7608
E: SUBSYSTEM=sdio

P: /devices/platform/ffe05000.sd2/mmc_host/sdio/sdio:0001/sdio:0001:2
L: 0
E: DEVPATH=/devices/platform/ffe05000.sd2/mmc_host/sdio/sdio:0001/sdio:0001:2
E: SDIO_CLASS=00
E: SDIO_ID=037A:7668
E: MODALIAS=sdio:c00v037Ad7668
E: SUBSYSTEM=sdio

In the kodi-menu, I can enable Bluetooth under “Services”, but under “Bluetooth” is still says: “Bluetooth is disabled”…

[Portisch]

I think there is no driver available for you hardware:

MeCool K7 support?

Your device has a Mediatek mt7668 WiFi/BT chipset which we don’t have a driver in our builds for yet, one is available but it’s not been tested. The tuner will probably need a new device tree so the system can see the tuner and that is if it’s supported as we still don’t know what tuner you have, nobody on our team has this device.

Ask your vendor to release the driver!

@worstcase it looks like @vpeter did found a driver, he will create a test image for you

[vpeter]

@worstcase

037A:7668

Can you try to update with this image https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lB32Jba7bC_PKjDx3VklAL0Ait5-vHoP/view?usp=sharing
and after reboot check if BT is visible and also post link you get from command

dmesg | paste
journalctl -l | paste

[worstcase]

Hi vpeter,

I updated the image, but unfortunately there’s the “Bluetooth” section still says “Bluetooth is disabled”.
Here are the results of the commands:

CoreELEC:~ # dmesg | paste
no results to fetch

CoreELEC:~ # journalctl -l | paste
http://ix.io/3liT

I hope that information helps you. Thanks for your efforts!

[vpeter]

It started to move but not yet enough:

Apr 29 12:36:03 CoreELEC kernel: BTMTK_init: BT_major 496, BT_majorfwlog 495
Apr 29 12:36:03 CoreELEC kernel: BTMTK_init: devID 520093696, devIDfwlog 519045120
Apr 29 12:36:03 CoreELEC kernel: btmtk_sdio_probe Mediatek Bluetooth driver Version=v0.0.0.47_2018012902
Apr 29 12:36:03 CoreELEC kernel: vendor=0x37a, device=0x7668, class=255, fn=2, support func_num 2

Please try this image: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YAVL40PbpebMZg5eg5qSHTmBRu8RBQym/view?usp=sharing

This image have both wifi and bt driver from same sources. Again run both commands and post url.

[worstcase]

Okay. I updated it. Still no Bluetooth… Here’s the new output:

CoreELEC (vpeter): 19.1-Matrix_rc_vpeter (Amlogic-ng.arm)
CoreELEC:~ # dmesg | paste
http://ix.io/3lj9
CoreELEC:~ # journalctl -l | paste
http://ix.io/3lja

[vpeter]

Did you enabled BT in CoreELEC settings? try to disable and enable and then again run two commands.

[worstcase]

Yes, I tried that several times. It changes nothing. Here’s the output:

CoreELEC (vpeter): 19.1-Matrix_rc_vpeter (Amlogic-ng.arm)
CoreELEC:~ # dmesg | paste
http://ix.io/3lji
CoreELEC:~ # journalctl -l | paste
http://ix.io/3ljj

[vpeter]

Sadly I still don’t see what could be wrong

But address is set:

btmtk_set_eeprom2ctrler: set BDAddress(72-76-68-48-3F-07) OK

[worstcase]

Okay… well, I found a workaround by using a BT-Dongle for my controller…

Thanks a lot for your efforts!

[vpeter]

Would you be willing to test one more image and post some logs? Update, disable/enable bt in kodi and post logs. Remove USB dongle before reboot.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VDB0GMUZey6_peqOtUUNwhKD7iig1LQl/view?usp=sharing

paste /storage/.kodi/temp/kodi.log
dmesg | paste
journalctl -l | paste
bluetoothctl list | paste
bluetoothctl show | paste

[worstcase]

Tried the image (without the dongle), didn’t work again…
The strange thing on my box is that I have to install Matrix 19.1-rc1 first in order to make the wifi work. Then I can update it to rc4. If I install rc4 first, there’s no wifi. But with rc1 (and rc4) the BT-Dongle gets detected on kodi and can be used. That didn’t work on my first setup (CoreElec 9.2.7.)… Don’t know if this information is helpful… However, here are the results:

CoreELEC (vpeter): 19.1-Matrix_rc_vpeter (Amlogic-ng.arm)
CoreELEC:~ # paste /storage/.kodi/temp/kodi.log
http://ix.io/3lsL
CoreELEC:~ # dmesg | paste
http://ix.io/3lsM
CoreELEC:~ # journalctl -l | paste
http://ix.io/3lsN
CoreELEC:~ # bluetoothctl list | paste
CoreELEC:~ # bluetoothctl show | paste
http://ix.io/3lqk

[marfri37]

Hi!
I recently got my tv box, and it is a X96air 2GB+16GB+2.4G Wi-Fi. The Wifi chip is 8189FT,V I have verified it and it works perfectly fine.

My question is what it would take to get the wifi chip to work with newer kernel versions or for e.g. other Linux distros?

What i can see is that in a recent release 19.1-Matrix_rc2 RTL8188FTV-aml driver was added.
In the dtb I can see this config: compatible = “amlogic, aml_wifi”;
The aml_wifi seem kinda generic how does that refer to the correct driver?

I guess what i would need to make this work is:

• Add a driver like the one mentioned above.
• Create a proper dtb to select the driver.

correct me if im wrong.

Thank you for the good work!

[Portisch]

Looking for users with no working WiFi or BT

We are looking for users who have devices that doesn’t have working WiFi or BT so we can continue to improve CoreELEC support for all devices. If you have any of the following devices then please do not reply as we are unable to support these devices due to no driver being available. Mecool K1 Plus (S905D) (9028xs) Tanix TX3 Mini (S905W) (9028xs) T95N (S905X) (9082xs) If you have issues with INTERNAL WiFi or BT then please also SSH to your device and enter the following command and paste the…

[serg255]

Good day! Box Rasse-001 (s905x). Wi-fi does not work. Bluetooth works.
CoreELEC:~ # udevadm info /sys/bus/sdio/devices/* | paste
http://ix.io/3lW8

[Portisch]

Should be supported with next CE-19 nightly tomorrow, thank you for report.