No wireless network found after update to kodi 19

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Hi,

i know it’s a little outdated, but i was still on kodi 18 (OSMC_TGT_rbp2_20201227) on my Rpi2 and i decide to move to kodi 19 with the last osmc update (OSMC_TGT_rbp2_20230831) .

I made a fresh install and everything went smooth, except that when i try to connect to my network i can’t see any on the list. To be sure i went back to the previous osmc version (kodi 18) and all the network went back.

I try to install the first version of OSMC with kodi 19 (OSMC_TGT_rbp2_20210808.img) and the problem is the same.

So my first guess is that is something with kodi 19 is messing up with my wifi adaptator ? (a wi-pi adaptator ) is there something i can try to make it work ?

Thanks

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Hi

We removed support for some WiFi dongles that weren’t upstreamed some time ago. It’s likely the case that your dongle isn’t supported in the kernel itself.

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Thanks for your answer but the strange things is that the wifi card is visible with the lshw command :

*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
bus info: usb@1:1.2
logical name: wlx40a5ef070ed4
serial: 40:a5:ef:07:0e:d4
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800usb driverversion=5.15.92-1-osmc firmware=N/A link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11

So i suppose that it’s supported by the kernel ? And it’s a very common wifi dongle specially designed for the raspberry so i would be surprised.

The only problem is that i’m unable to scan for any networks, nothing shows up. You definitively things there is nothing to do ?

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It looks like it’s being detected, so you should be able to connect via My OSMC or connmanctl.

Maybe the firmware is missing.

Logs should give clues

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Here is my log : http://paste.osmc.tv/lazuruhihi

Effectively it seems related to the firmware, there is this error:

kernel: rt2800usb 1-1.2:1.0: Direct firmware load for rt2870.bin failed with error -2

And when i do lshw on kodi 18 i get this:

*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
bus info: usb@1:1.2
logical name: wlan0
serial: 40:a5:ef:07:0e:d4
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800usb driverversion=4.19.122-2-osmc firmware=0.29 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11

the firmware is 0.29 instead of N/A on kodi 19

Any clues on a way to solve this ?

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Copy the file from the working system to /lib/firmware and it should work.

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It worked ! Thanks a lot