Hello.
Just installed new release on raspberry pi 3. And as I use external dongle on rtl8188eus chipset as AP I usually install drivers from http://downloads.fars-robotics.net. They have a script to autoinstall here: http://www.fars-robotics.net/install-wifi. But now the installation fails:
root@osmc:/bin# /usr/bin/install-wifi
*** Raspberry Pi wifi driver installer by MrEngman.
*** Performing self-update
*** Relaunching after update
*** Raspberry Pi wifi driver installer by MrEngman.
Your current kernel revision = 4.14.34-2-osmc+
Your current kernel build = #1
Checking for a wifi module to determine the driver to install.
Your wifi module is Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter
And it uses the 8188eu driver.
Checking for a 8188eu wifi driver module for your current kernel.
A driver does not yet exist for this update.
I tried to manually download and install the driver for kernel 4.14.34 from http://downloads.fars-robotics.net/wifi-drivers/8188eu-drivers/ but after installation something is wrong:
root@osmc:~# ifconfig wlan1 up
wlan1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Before installation a new driver I could make “up” wlan1 but the default driver doesn’t support AP-mode.
Could you please help me with this trouble?
The RTL8188EU is supported out of the box with OSMC.
I think only the in tree driver supports AP mode via nl80211, but the performance is so bad you will not be able to use it.
Sam
Hi, Sam.
I used the RTL8188EU with that driver before in AP mode and the performance was quit a good - better than built-in wireless adapter of raspberry3! I got about 20Mbit/s. And the metter is I need 2 adapters so the question is still how to make working that driver, supporting AP mode, with the new kernel 4.14.34-2-osmc+ of osmc ?
ps
“The RTL8188EU is supported out of the box with OSMC.”
Sam, do you mean AP mode ? If yes - can you tell me how to achieve it ? May be I use incorrect hostapd config ?
mine is:
driver=nl80211
ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd_wlan1
ctrl_interface_group=0
beacon_int=100
auth_algs=1
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
ssid=new_new_ssid
channel=11
hw_mode=g
wpa_passphrase=my_new_pass
interface=wlan1
wpa=2
wpa_pairwise=TKIP
country_code=<my_country>
#ieee80211n=1 # 802.11n support (Raspberry Pi 3)
#wmm_enabled=1 # QoS support (Raspberry Pi 3)
#ht_capab=[HT40][SHORT-GI-20][DSSS_CCK-40] # (Raspberry Pi 3)
Sorry – AP mode is not supported out of the box for this driver.
I don’t recommend using your driver. You could indeed build it but this would not be something we could support
Sam
Sam, could you recommend wifi-dongle (chipset) supported by osmc in AP mode ?
Not sure about Pi unfortunately.
Sam