Driver For mt7662u_sta WiFi

tmenzies · 5 May 2018 04:54

Are there plans to support the mt7662u_sta WiFi device? I believe that this is necessary to support the NetGear A6210 which I’d like to use to try and improve my WiFi connectivity.

Tom_Doyle · 5 May 2018 08:06

Hi,

On which device?

Pi, vero ?

Thanks Tom.

tmenzies · 5 May 2018 08:47

Oops, sorry, I should have said! I have a Vero2, so ideally would be across all Vero builds.

Tom_Doyle · 5 May 2018 09:33

Hi,

From a search of the forums, it doesn’t look like support for this driver is currently on the roadmap.

Thanks Tom.

tmenzies · 5 May 2018 10:00

Any chance of adding it? From one of the earlier posts there was an implication that it would be added to Pi?

Thanks,

Tony

Tom_Doyle · 5 May 2018 10:06

Hi,

I’m seemed to have missed that post, when I searched the forum?

Could you please provide a link to the post?

Thanks Tom.

tmenzies · 5 May 2018 10:14

Hi Tom,

This post: https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/wifi-adaptor-help-netgear-ac1200/3667

I believe the AC2100 and A6210 are the same hardware, named directly in different markets.

Regards,

Tony

Tom_Doyle · 5 May 2018 10:36

Hi,

According to that thread support was added some time back, admittedly for the pi. So the vero2 doesn’t see the dongle?

Thanks Tom.

tmenzies · 5 May 2018 11:09

No, I see the device in lsusb but no networks appear on the WiFi screen of the GUI. Should I move this query to one of the support threads?

Regards,

Tony

fzinken · 5 May 2018 11:15

provide full logs grab-logs -A so we can see what is going on.
also URL of lsusb | paste-log

tmenzies · 5 May 2018 13:14

Thanks for stepping in @fzinken. Here are the URLs:

Grab-logs: https://paste.osmc.tv/uwifapesiq
lsusb: https://paste.osmc.tv/ejahufabuv

Regards,

Tony

fzinken · 5 May 2018 13:21

Ok, seems no driver being loaded.
Maybe try to compile from source GitHub - jurobystricky/Netgear-A6210: AC1200 High Gain WiFi USB Adapter Linux kernel driver

tmenzies · 5 May 2018 14:14

OK, so I installed git and make by runningsudo apt install git-all and sudo apt-get install build-essential and then used git clone https://github.com/jurobystricky/Netgear-A6210 to download the source, however when I ran make from the newly created Netgear-A6210 directory, I got the following. Have a omitted a step?

osmc@VERO2OSMC:~/Netgear-A6210$ make
export DBGFLAGS

*** Building driver with debug messages ***

cp -f os/linux/Makefile.6 /home/osmc/Netgear-A6210/os/linux/Makefile
make -C /lib/modules/3.10.105-12-osmc/build DBGFLAGS=-DDBG SUBDIRS=/home/osmc/Netgear-A6210/os/linux modules
make[1]: *** /lib/modules/3.10.105-12-osmc/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.
Makefile:59: recipe for target 'debug' failed
make: *** [debug] Error 2

Regards,

Tony

Tom_Doyle · 5 May 2018 14:18

Hi,

sudo apt-get vero2-headers-$(uname -r)

That should install the required kernel headers. Please be advised you will need to recompile and re-install with each kernal update.

Thanks Tom.

tmenzies · 6 May 2018 12:56

Tom,

Sorry, still getting the same error after sudo apt-get install vero2-headers-$(uname -r). Dump of output from apt-get and make below.

Regards,

Tony

osmc@VERO2OSMC:~$ sudo apt-get install vero2-headers-$(uname -r)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  armv7-libcrossguid-osmc bluez libapt-inst1.5 libbind9-90 libdbus-1-dev
  libdns100 libgif4 libgnutls-deb0-28 libhogweed2 libicu52 libisc95 libisccc90
  libisccfg90 liblwres90 libmicrohttpd10 libmysqlclient18 libnettle4 libntdb1
  libplist2 libpng12-0 libpsl0 libssl1.0.0 libwebp5 libwebpdemux1 libwebpmux1
  libxtables10 pkg-config python-dbus-dev
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
  module-init-tools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  vero2-headers-3.10.105-12-osmc
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 6589 kB of archives.
After this operation, 47.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.fau.de/osmc/osmc/apt stretch/main armhf vero2-headers-3.10.105-12-osmc armhf 12 [6589 kB]
Fetched 6589 kB in 6s (969 kB/s)                                               
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LC_CTYPE = "en_GB.UTF-8",
	LC_COLLATE = "en_GB.UTF-8",
	LC_MESSAGES = "en_GB.UTF-8",
	LANG = "en_HK.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_HK.UTF-8").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Selecting previously unselected package vero2-headers-3.10.105-12-osmc.
(Reading database ... 44557 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../vero2-headers-3.10.105-12-osmc_12_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking vero2-headers-3.10.105-12-osmc (12) ...
Setting up vero2-headers-3.10.105-12-osmc (12) ...
Examining /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d.
osmc@VERO2OSMC:~$ cd Netgear-A6210/
osmc@VERO2OSMC:~/Netgear-A6210$ make
export DBGFLAGS

*** Building driver with debug messages ***

cp -f os/linux/Makefile.6 /home/osmc/Netgear-A6210/os/linux/Makefile
make -C /lib/modules/3.10.105-12-osmc/build DBGFLAGS=-DDBG SUBDIRS=/home/osmc/Netgear-A6210/os/linux modules
make[1]: *** /lib/modules/3.10.105-12-osmc/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.
Makefile:59: recipe for target 'debug' failed
make: *** [debug] Error 2

Tom_Doyle · 6 May 2018 14:07

Hi,

Please provide the output of:

ls -lah /lib/modules/3.10.105-12-osmc/build

Thanks Tom.

tmenzies · 6 May 2018 16:06

The directory does not seem to exist:

osmc@VERO2OSMC:~$ ls -lah /lib/modules/3.10.105-12-osmc/build
ls: cannot access '/lib/modules/3.10.105-12-osmc/build': No such file or directory

Here is the contents of /lib/modules/3.10.105-12-osmc:

osmc@VERO2OSMC:/lib/modules/3.10.105-12-osmc$ ls
kernel             modules.builtin      modules.dep.bin  modules.softdep
modules.alias      modules.builtin.bin  modules.devname  modules.symbols
modules.alias.bin  modules.dep          modules.order    modules.symbols.bin

Regards,

Tony

Tom_Doyle · 6 May 2018 16:13

Hi,

Sorry I haven’t got a vero2 to test this on, but it doesn’t look like the kernel-headers have installed properly.

Thanks Tom.

@tmenzies edit, I’ve done some digging; more packages need to be installed. As I say I haven’t got a vero2, but I’ll see if I can work out what they are from what I’ve got to test with here.

@tmenzies can’t get it to compile on my vero4k, (i think its a userland issue). You may get further on your vero2. To fix the current message:

sudo ln -s /usr/src/vero364-headers-3.10.105-12-osmc /lib/modules/3.10.105-12-osmc/build

Hopefully that will do it, if not provide error messages.

Thanks Tom.

tmenzies · 7 May 2018 14:59

Tom,

Thanks for your further checking - I’ll give this a try and let you know how I get on.

Regards,

Tony

tmenzies · 10 May 2018 15:30

Tom,

I linked the directory (for anyone following this thread in future, the link on a Vero2 is sudo ln -s /usr/src/vero2-headers-3.10.105-12-osmc /lib/modules/3.10.105-12-osmc/build), then ran make from ~/Netgear-A6210 - which sadly fails with a fatal error when it fails to find mach/memory.h, details below.

Regards,

Tony

osmc@VERO2OSMC:~/Netgear-A6210$ make
export DBGFLAGS

*** Building driver with debug messages ***

cp -f os/linux/Makefile.6 /home/osmc/Netgear-A6210/os/linux/Makefile
make -C /lib/modules/3.10.105-12-osmc/build DBGFLAGS=-DDBG SUBDIRS=/home/osmc/Netgear-A6210/os/linux modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/vero2-headers-3.10.105-12-osmc'
  CC [M]  /home/osmc/Netgear-A6210/os/linux/../../sta/assoc.o
In file included from /usr/src/vero2-headers-3.10.105-12-osmc/arch/arm/include/asm/page.h:163:0,
                 from include/linux/mmzone.h:20,
                 from include/linux/gfp.h:4,
                 from include/linux/kmod.h:22,
                 from include/linux/module.h:13,
                 from /home/osmc/Netgear-A6210/include/os/rt_linux.h:14,
                 from /home/osmc/Netgear-A6210/include/rtmp_os.h:30,
                 from /home/osmc/Netgear-A6210/include/rtmp_comm.h:64,
                 from /home/osmc/Netgear-A6210/include/rt_config.h:34,
                 from /home/osmc/Netgear-A6210/os/linux/../../sta/assoc.c:28:
/usr/src/vero2-headers-3.10.105-12-osmc/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h:22:25: fatal error: mach/memory.h: No such file or directory
 #include <mach/memory.h>
                         ^
compilation terminated.
scripts/Makefile.build:308: recipe for target '/home/osmc/Netgear-A6210/os/linux/../../sta/assoc.o' failed
make[2]: *** [/home/osmc/Netgear-A6210/os/linux/../../sta/assoc.o] Error 1
Makefile:1238: recipe for target '_module_/home/osmc/Netgear-A6210/os/linux' failed
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/osmc/Netgear-A6210/os/linux] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/vero2-headers-3.10.105-12-osmc'
Makefile:59: recipe for target 'debug' failed
make: *** [debug] Error 2