Volumio-3.785-2024-12-16 RaspBerry PI 2B WIFI don't work [SOLVED]

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Good morning everyone, I’m Roberto and it’s the first time I’ve written on the forum.
Yesterday I updated to the new version of Volumio (see it in the title).
The system is a RaspBerry Pi 2B with a 16GB Sandisk microSD.
After the update, WIFI stopped working. With the LAN cable everything works fine.

I tried using three different dongles but nothing.
They stay off, and if I try to turn them on; Volumio saves settings but WIFI remains off.

Any advice?

22/12/2024 with version 3.569-2023-10-20 the wifi started working correctly again but not with all dongles, only with the Tp-Link wn725n - Realtek RTL8188EUS chipset
with the two Gembird WNP-UA-005 cards - Chipset: RTL8192EU does not work

greetings to everyone

P.S.: I advise anyone in the same situation as me to disable automatic updates.

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Hi!
can you give details about our dongles?
manufacturer, chipset…

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Hi balbuze!
Sure!

  1. Tp-Link wn725n - chipset Realtek RTL8188EUS
  2. 2x Gembird WNP-UA-005 - Chipset: RTL8192EU

Of course all dongles are tested and fully functional on all platforms: Windows, Linux, MacOS

I also tried changing the USB port, but to no avail

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@Wheaten @nerd any info?

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what is the output of:
lsusb
lsusb -t

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Hey @gatsu_yokohama,

Start your volumio without WiFi dongle connected. Once the system is started, then insert the WiFi dongle to the USB port and post:

Debug log link.

Attach to your response compressed with zip dmesg.txt from the following command:

dmesg > dmesg.txt

Kind Regards,

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`# lsusb ---------------
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0781:5567 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Blade
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:818b Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8192EU 802.11b/g/n WLAN Adapter
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMC9514 Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

lsusb -t ---------------

/: Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=dwc_otg/1p, 480M
|__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Hub, Driver=hub/5p, 480M
|__ Port 1: Dev 3, If 0, Class=Vendor Specific Class, Driver=smsc95xx, 480M
|__ Port 2: Dev 5, If 0, Class=Vendor Specific Class, Driver=, 480M
|__ Port 4: Dev 4, If 0, Class=Mass Storage, Driver=usb-storage, 480M

lsusb -v ---------------

Couldn’t open device, some information will be missing
Couldn’t open device, some information will be missing`

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I’m so sorry, i create log but I don’t fully understand what you mean by that.

this is the link at log file - http://logs.volumio.org/volumio/0egfUCT.html -

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Hey @gatsu_yokohama,

  1. Login to your Volumio player using ssh client
  2. Execute command dmesg > dmesg.txt
  3. Copy resulting dmsg.txt to your workstation, laptop, etc
  4. Using file compression tool zip copied dmesg.txt to dmesg.zip
  5. Attach/upload dmesg.zip to your post

Kind Regards,

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“Sorry, new users can not upload attachments.” :man_shrugging: :man_shrugging:

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Mising driver.

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ok! and how do I proceed?

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Thats for our wizzkids, to determine if these drivers can be added.
@nerd , @Darmur

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unfortunately I can’t help regarding this, I don’t know how to integrate custom WiFi drivers.

furthermore, I don’t even have those dongles for testing eventually

the quickest way to solve this problem is to get a WiFi dongle supported by the latest Volumio image out-of-the-box

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Ok I have two solutions in mind:

  1. download an old version of Volumio (could you please tell me where can I find an old image of Volumio?)
  2. could you please suggest me a dongle supported by the latest Volumio image out-of-the-box?
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what old version was working for you?

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How about we check if this is a matter of the firmware blobs?

Whilst using ssh session:

wget http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free-firmware/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-realtek_20241210-1_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i ./firmware-nonfree/firmware-realtek_20241210-1_all.deb

reboot -n

If it works, this may be an easy fix.

Kind Regards,

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nope don’t work
thanks a lot
Kind Regards

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One or two releases before this one.
I remember that before this last update everything worked correctly.
thank you