Added firmware and modules for the wlan on RPi3 and ZeroW #470
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Raspberry Pi 3 and Zero W.
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Works great with this PR: "Added automatic driver loading #469" |
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The idea behind the |
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I would have no reservations to merge this. |
* Added package firmware-brcm80211, removed hardcoded URL * Replaced curl with wget for downloading files * Coding style: added some quotes
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| echo -n "Checking key file '${KEY_FILE}'... " | |||
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| # check that there is only 1 public key in the key file | |||
| if [ ! $(gpg --homedir gnupg --keyid-format long --with-fingerprint --with-colons ${KEY_FILE} | grep ^pub: | wc -l) -eq 1 ] ; then | |||
| if [ "$(gpg --homedir gnupg --keyid-format long --with-fingerprint --with-colons "${KEY_FILE}" | grep ^pub: | wc -l)" -ne 1 ] ; then | |||
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| RASPBERRYPI_ARCHIVE_KEY_URL="${RASPBERRYPI_ARCHIVE_KEY_DIRECTORY}/${RASPBERRYPI_ARCHIVE_KEY_FILE_NAME}" | |||
| RASPBERRYPI_ARCHIVE_KEY_FINGERPRINT="CF8A1AF502A2AA2D763BAE7E82B129927FA3303E" | |||
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| FIRMWARE_PACKAGE=${RASPBERRYPI_ARCHIVE_KEY_DIRECTORY}/pool/main/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-brcm80211_0.43+rpi5_all.deb | |||
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there is a newer one, named firmware-brcm80211_20161130-3+rpi1_all.deb ... but that also has the downside of being a very specific file/version. (file sizes are the same, but the SHA256 checksum differs).
Don't have a solution (yet?), but wanted to note it before I forget it.
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I'm not familiar with this, but is it possible to make the version a wildcard?
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My bad, this was from the first commit. In the second it was replaced with a general mechanism.
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My concern here: Please look at lines 335-346, 605-612 & 1120-1127 -- which (also) supports WiFi dongles -- and confirm that these pieces of code will work together with your change.
I have no possibility to test this anymore :-(
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Confirmed.
This just installs another package with firmware blobs, which are used by the driver if needed.
The other sections install the program wpa_supplicant, which is needed as well. It handles the actual wireless connections in user mode for both on-board WiFi and dongles.
Request for comments: What needs to be changed to get pulled?
I got my hands on a RPi3 and after some tinkering, I got the installation over onboard WLAN to work.
While adding to much firmware to this installer probably wouldn't be a good idea, the Pi 3 and the Zero W seem to have the same chip (brcm43430), and supporting the official Raspberry chipsets would be reasonable.
However, the firmware package in Raspbian is too old, we need the one from raspberrypi.org. If that would be ok, I would add that as second download mirror (like this fork does: https://github.com/FooDeas/raspberrypi-ua-netinst ).