Orange pi Zero WiFi 819 not works

Troubleshooting
1

The built-in WiFi module in Orange pi Zero does not work.
With an external 802.11n USB Wireless LAN Card (MediaTek, Inc. RT2870) the module works.
How to solve this problem?

2

Hi,

Known issue, please see here for a workaround/fix:
https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/635#issuecomment-266006050

3

Created the daemon file /etc/systemd/system/xradio_wlan.service

Code:

Systemctl enable xradio_wlan.service

Systemctl daemon-reload

Reboot


…


dmesg | Grep xradio

[12.662315] xradio wlan power on
[13.167005] [XRADIO_ERR] xradio_load_firmware: can not read config register, err = -110.
[13.167045] [XRADIO_ERR] xradio_load_firmware failed (-110).
[13.503539] xradio wlan power off



On other images, XR819 works (there are two orange pirou modules, the “debian_server_For_OrangePizero_v0_9_2.img” image).

In these images there are files XR819*.bin.

And in the image “DietPi_OrangePiZero-armv7- (Jessie) .7z” the XR819 files are missing.

How this system can work with a chip, if there is no mention anywhere?

What am I doing wrong?

4 
[12.662315] xradio wlan power on
[13.167005] [XRADIO_ERR] xradio_load_firmware: can not read config register, err = -110.
[13.167045] [XRADIO_ERR] xradio_load_firmware failed (-110).
[13.503539] xradio wlan power off

Seems a known issue, ARMbian are aware of it:
https://forum.armbian.com/index.php?/topic/2808-orange-pi-zero-went-to-the-market/&do=findComment&comment=21614

Firmware appears installed:

root@DietPi:~# ls -lha /lib/firmware/xr819/
total 144K
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K Mar 10 18:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4.0K Mar 10 18:45 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2.3K Mar 10 18:43 boot_xr819.bin
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  975 Mar 10 18:43 device-xradio.mk
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 124K Mar 10 18:43 fw_xr819.bin
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  744 Mar 10 18:43 sdd_xr819.bin