Hi Everyone, sorry I haven¡¯t been attending the meetings the last 4 (6?) months. It¡¯s been, well, hectic to say the least.
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If anyone can help ¨C it would be appreciated, and I can compensate. Our testing Pi for this is at 1600 14th street, or I can give access via real vnc. I do need to sort this out this week if possible.
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One big issue we have had is the relatively low powered wifi unit on the 3b+, particularly for California customers who have chicken wire faraday cages under recently applied stucco. Its been so bad even basic API calls fall over, intermittently.
We have resolved the system impacts, but still want to improve the situation by allowing customers to add a USB wifi adaptor with antenna to get the signal high or low (or through the wall to the other side), away from the faraday cage.
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But I am having issues getting the correct kernel headers to load correctly.
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The usb device is recognized..
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[??? 4.375575] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=f179, bcdDevice= 0.00
[??? 4.375603] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[??? 4.375619] usb 1-1.4: Product: 802.11n
[??? 4.375634] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: Realtek
[??? 4.375651] usb 1-1.4: SerialNumber: 00E03530B0B1
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We have a couple of git repos that supposedly work, but both fail at the point of finding the kernel headers.
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This is our current OS version¡..Linux pi 5.10.63-v7+ #1496 SMP Wed Dec 1 15:58:11 GMT 2021 armv7l GNU/Linux
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Prep done:
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git
sudo apt-get install -y raspberrypi-kernel-headers
sudo reboot
git clone
(note we have also tried )
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I do have kernel files at /lib/modules/5.10.63-v7+
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But when running make
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pi@pi:~/8821cu-20210916 $ make
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/5.10.63-v7+/build M=/home/pi/8821cu-20210916? modules
make[1]: *** /lib/modules/5.10.63-v7+/build: No such file or directory.? Stop.
make: *** [Makefile:2501: modules] Error 2
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/build doesn¡¯t exist in the file structure.
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I¡¯ve got to the point where both my main programmer (India) and I are starting to look for the answer in the fridge. We are not thinking clearly anymore.
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Best,
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Paul
