Hey @cbrady I’m not on the Balena team, but I’m the author of the other posts you mentioned! Balena manages the linux driver configuration for all the different boards separately, so the changes you linked are only relevant for raspberry pi based boards and I wouldn’t expect the 2.85.2 release to resolve your issue.
Have you checked the dmesg log for your device? If the problem is similar (the firmware support has been dropped, you should see a message like this in the log?)
[ 128.621010] r8188eu 1-1.2:1.0: Direct firmware load for rtlwifi/rtl8188eufw.bin failed with error -2
[ 128.630369] r8188eu 1-1.2:1.0: Firmware rtlwifi/rtl8188eufw.bin not available