Hello Support,
We are evaluating few USB wifi dongles with Realteck chipset. It seems USB dongle with RTL8812BU chipset doesn’t have driver enabled. is it possible to have below driver’s enabled as modules in base Balena OS so that we don’t have to maintain custom Yocto build just for wifi driver.
Just fyi, We are using Compulab iot-gate-imx8 device.
Regards,
-Niranjan
Hello Niranjan,
We only support certain wifi dongles. Yoou can see them here. They’re also listed here.The documentation for the wifi-connect block also lists wifi dongles that have been successfully tested with wifi-connect. We don’t plan to provide explicit support to any dongles that are not listed in the documentation.
Hello Jmakivic,
Thank you for the info. is there possibility to enable ATH10K driver (this one supports QCA988x wifi ac chipset with mPCIe inter-connect)? This is option CONFIG_ATH10K.
Also, dongle list you provided doesn’t seem to be that exhaustive so it limits what we can try. It’s lot more trouble to build and maintain Yocto just for few drivers, So it will be great if you consider enabling few more wifi chipset (from Atheros & Realtek) drivers as modules.
Regards,
-Niranjan
Hello Niranjan,
We are currently having some internal discussions about how we can provide more support for various types of wifi dongles. I’ll update this thread with any updates when they become available.
Kind regards,
Julia
Great! Just one thing to note is we are also evaluating mPCI wifi chips so not limited to USB dongles. Thanks!
Regards,
-Niranjan
Hello Julia,
Just wanted to provide update on Atheros QCA988X based mPCI wifi chipset. It seems wifi card works with below options enabled.
Kernel options CONFIG_ATH10K and CONFIG_ATH10K_PCI along with linux-firmware-ath10k package.
It will be great if Balena can consider enabling these options so we don’t have to maintain the custom build.
Regards,
-Niranjan
Thanks Niranjan, that’s good to know!