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Post by MeneerJansen on Sept 14, 2020 20:55:20 GMT
Nice to see that it works now. To get wireless working on tho Maxi could be a bit of a struggle: - First you need to manually install the wireless tools framework (a.o. wpa_supplicant). If you can figure out what these are exactly you might be able to copy them from XWM
- Then you need a kernel driver for your particular Wifi dongle. This needs to be compiled specifically for the Maxi's kernel. But so far not all kernel modules that I've compiled for the Maxi work, as i/we don't have the source code + configuration used for the Maxi's kernel so I've been using some generic Allwinner SDK's. But if you can provide the brand, type and chipset of your Wifi dongle I'd be happy to see whether there is a kernel module for it whether it compiles and loads without error.
- Then you need to configure wpa_suplicant.conf an make at all start at boot
It might be slightly easier to load the (currently hypothetical) Wifi dongle kernel module befor starting XWM and then try if it works in XWM as XWM already has the necessary wireless tools framework installed.
Didn't realize it could be that difficult. I managed to install Synaptic in the chroot and I can run that with it's GUI from the chroot. So installing software is not that hard now. I tried to install a driver/firmware for my Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter (kernal driver: rtl8192cu) via this tutorial. Appeared to go okay, but the light did not go up when I inserted the USB wifi dongle. Thanks to your post I know why. You do not have to go to a lot of trouble to try to get Wifi working for me. What exactly do you mean by XWM? Do you think that a "usb to wired ethernet" adapter like this one would be easier to get internet with on The C64? |
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Post by jj0 on Sept 15, 2020 7:22:01 GMT
Nice to see that it works now. To get wireless working on tho Maxi could be a bit of a struggle: - First you need to manually install the wireless tools framework (a.o. wpa_supplicant). If you can figure out what these are exactly you might be able to copy them from XWM
- Then you need a kernel driver for your particular Wifi dongle. This needs to be compiled specifically for the Maxi's kernel. But so far not all kernel modules that I've compiled for the Maxi work, as i/we don't have the source code + configuration used for the Maxi's kernel so I've been using some generic Allwinner SDK's. But if you can provide the brand, type and chipset of your Wifi dongle I'd be happy to see whether there is a kernel module for it whether it compiles and loads without error.
- Then you need to configure wpa_suplicant.conf an make at all start at boot
It might be slightly easier to load the (currently hypothetical) Wifi dongle kernel module befor starting XWM and then try if it works in XWM as XWM already has the necessary wireless tools framework installed.
Didn't realize it could be that difficult. I managed to install Synaptic in the chroot and I can run that with it's GUI from the chroot. So installing software is not that hard now. I tried to install a driver/firmware for my Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter (kernal driver: rtl8192cu) via this tutorial. Appeared to go okay, but the light did not go up when I inserted the USB wifi dongle. Thanks to your post I know why. You do not have to go to a lot of trouble to try to get Wifi working for me. What exactly do you mean by XWM? Do you think that a "usb to wired ethernet" adapter like this one would be easier to get internet with on The C64? XWM = 'THEC64 X-Windows Mod'  I have the USB2Ethernet adapter from your link (or at least it looks the same), it works great on the Mini for which the kernel source is available so it was easy to compile the required module. For the Maxi I haven't been able to get a working kernel module/driver, the variants I've tried all crash. But if/when the kernel source for the Maxi is available it should be possible to get a working driver. |
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