Wifi Option Missing form My Osmc Menu

Hi,

I have been using a TP-Link TL-WN823N Wifi Dongle on my Raspberry Pi 2 runing osmc for at least a year without problems. Yesterday the Wifi couldn’t connect. In the My Osmc Menu the option for wireless is missing (on shows wired and sql stuff).

I formatted and reinstalled osmc, the wifi worked again. A day later i rebooted after an update and the wifi stop working again (option in my osmc is missing again). The Dongle worked after reboot and is still working on my desktop pc.

Logs : https://paste.osmc.tv/dohofowuci
Some other debug output:

osmc@osmc:~$ sudo lshw
osmc
description: ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l)
product: Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Rev 1.1
serial: 00000000b368b138
width: 32 bits
capabilities: smp
*-core
description: Motherboard
physical id: 0
*-cpu:0
description: CPU
product: cpu
physical id: 0
bus info: cpu@0
size: 900MHz
capacity: 900MHz
capabilities: half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm cpufreq
*-cpu:1
description: CPU
product: cpu
physical id: 1
bus info: cpu@1
size: 900MHz
capacity: 900MHz
capabilities: half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm cpufreq
*-cpu:2
description: CPU
product: cpu
physical id: 2
bus info: cpu@2
size: 900MHz
capacity: 900MHz
capabilities: half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm cpufreq
*-cpu:3
description: CPU
product: cpu
physical id: 3
bus info: cpu@3
size: 900MHz
capacity: 900MHz
capabilities: half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm cpufreq
*-memory
description: System memory
physical id: 4
size: 745MiB
*-usbhost
product: DWC OTG Controller
vendor: Linux 4.19.55-6-osmc dwc_otg_hcd
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@1
logical name: usb1
version: 4.19
capabilities: usb-2.00
configuration: driver=hub slots=1 speed=480Mbit/s
*-usb
description: USB hub
product: SMC9514 Hub
vendor: Standard Microsystems Corp.
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@1:1
version: 2.00
capabilities: usb-2.00
configuration: driver=hub maxpower=2mA slots=5 speed=480Mbit/s
*-usb:0
description: Generic USB device
product: SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter
vendor: Standard Microsystems Corp.
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@1:1.1
version: 2.00
capabilities: usb-2.00
configuration: driver=smsc95xx maxpower=2mA speed=480Mbit/s
*-usb:1 UNCLAIMED
description: Generic USB device
product: 802.11n NIC
vendor: Realtek
physical id: 5
bus info: usb@1:1.5
version: 2.00
serial: 00e04c000001
capabilities: usb-2.10
configuration: maxpower=500mA speed=480Mbit/s
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 2
logical name: eth0
serial: b8:27:eb:68:b1:38
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
capabilities: ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=smsc95xx driverversion=22-Aug-2005 duplex=full firmware=smsc95xx USB 2.0 Ethernet ip=192.168.0.150 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s

osmc@osmc:~$ sudo connmanctl
Error getting VPN connections: Unit connman-vpn.service not found.connmanctl> technologies
/net/connman/technology/ethernet
Name = Wired
Type = ethernet
Powered = True
Connected = True
Tethering = False
connmanctl> enable wifi
Error wifi: Method “SetProperty” with signature “sv” on interface “net.connman.Technology” doesn’t exist

Thanks in advance for helping

This is expected. Support has been dropped for some Realtek WiFi adapters without an upstream driver

Is there a way to get the wireless connection working again without downgrading ?

Only by using a supported adapter

Sam

Could you please share the last OSMC version to still work with this dongle (TL-WN823N)? I have a similar problem, but I’m just trying to get it to work again. I’m sure it worked before the support was yanked from upstream. Thanks!

That would be the July 2019 release if your going to do a fresh install. You might be able to downgrade by running the following via SSH…

sudo dpkg-reconfigure rbp2-image-4.14.78-4-osmc

…for a RPi 2/3. For a RPi 1 you would use this instead…

sudo dpkg-reconfigure rbp1-image-4.14.78-4-osmc

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Sam, where we can find a list of supported adapters?
I was hoping to use ASUS AC56 (RTL8812AU) but also can’t find option to enable wifi, nor info whether the driver is already included (using just OSMC on raspberry 2)