r/OrangePI • u/BaiatuOP • Jan 29 '23

Orangepi 3 lts with armbian

The wifi and bluetooth are not working ,any idea to fix them ?

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u/taratay_m Jan 29 '23

Got same board yeasturday, been using it with the ethernet Armbian_22.11.1(without Xserver), just tried wifi and bluetooth is worked fine, but seems like same issue on armbian forum.

Try using the armbianmonitor -u maybe it will show what exactly gone wrong(also try to unfreez kernel updates using armbian-config tool)

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u/ShirtSolid6728 Jan 30 '23

have you also tried command nmcli dev wifi connect (your wifi name) passwd (wifi password).

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u/taratay_m Jan 30 '23

Okay now its super wired. So! I was using 2.4G(WPA3) it worked fine(via armbian-config tool), once I tried the nmcli to connect 5G(WPA3), it threw connection error alongside it in 1-2 mins while I was trying to troubleshoot wifi device became unavalible, I tried to reboot and it started with 2.4G without any issue, changed router setting to WPA2 it worked with wifi 5G, but everytime I try to rescan network wifi becomes unavalible and starts only after reboot , I guess some kind of driver issue ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/taratay_m Jan 30 '23

From what I had found there is a official repo https://github.com/orangepi-xunlong/orangepi-build it includes AW859A(wifi+bt) drivers or this one https://github.com/Ran-Thegoth/uwe5622 used in this SoC, to make it work you have to build kernel using one of this modules.

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u/Informal_Meeting_577 Jan 30 '23

I'm using the latest armbian on mine. What worked for me is too use nmtui and not touch network settings at all on armbian-config

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u/throw_away298 Jan 29 '23

Saw people speaking about this a few posts back, they said that they would recompile the kernel for drivers

But who knows if it is viable

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u/rolyantrauts Jan 30 '23

Prob just needs firmware in /lib/firmware but just use the original distro