SanCloud BeagleBone® Enhanced WiFi 512 - no wlan0 interface

[RobertCNelson]

@tonyarkles

Which links to this repo: GitHub - lwfinger/rtl8723du

I’m going through the build steps here to try that driver out, but there’s big warnings that it’ll need to be rebuilt any time there’s a kernel update… that’s not ideal since I was planning on leaving the BB out at a rural property connected over WiFi.

I’ve got some dpkg stuff I need to brush up on for work next week; if I were to put together all of the necessary bits to build and package this (and send a PR to that repo), would you have any interest in adding this driver to your upstream repo as well?

This kernel module is now starting to roll out to all future kernel builds:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install rtl8723du-modules-`uname -r`

it’ll be automatically added to these kernel update meta-packages…

[ARMHF] Debian 10.x/11.x/12.x Kernel Updates

I’m looking to end the “update_kernel.sh” script, in Debian 10.x/11.x i’m working meta packages for kernel branches for users to more easily stay on a LTS kernel: Example For example, to stay on v5.10.x-ti for the am335x just run: sudo apt update sudo apt install bbb.io-kernel-5.10-ti-am335x sudo reboot Upgrades: sudo apt update ; sudo apt upgrade All Options (only install one, if you install 2, your upgrades will swap between…) *-ti branches: These follow, TI’s lts branch for as long as…

debian@BeagleBone:~$ sudo apt install bbb.io-kernel-5.10-ti-am335x
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  bbb.io-kernel-5.10-ti bbb.io-kernel-tasks libpruio-modules-5.10.120-ti-r47
  linux-image-5.10.120-ti-r47 qcacld-2.0-modules-5.10.120-ti-r47
  rtl8723bu-modules-5.10.120-ti-r47 rtl8723du-modules-5.10.120-ti-r47
  rtl8821cu-modules-5.10.120-ti-r47 ti-sgx-ti335x-modules-5.10.120-ti-r47

Regards,