Rock/Wireless
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Before start
The Radxa Rock provides various ways to connect, wired and wireless. The full version has wifi and bluetooth on board, and lite version has wifi only. Both module are connect to the cpu via the USB interface.
Using wireless under Android
The wifi and bluetooth(if has) works out of the box, check out in the Setting to configure it.
Using wireless under Linux
Wifi
The model number of the module on RR and RR lite is RTL8723AU on RR full version and RTL8188ETV on lite version. You can see the id of the module with the following command on RR:
sudo apt-get install usbutils lsusb
For RR full version the output is
root@radxa:~# lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bda:0724 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
on lite version, the output is:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bda:0179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
The 0bda:0724 is the id of rtl8723 modlue, the 0bda:0179 is the id of rtl8188etv module.
Manually config to connect wireless router
To use RR(lite) to connect to your wireless router, you need to do the following:
apt-get install wireless-tools apt-get install wpasupplicant ifconfig wlan0 up
Now you can view is the wifi module works by scanning the AP nearby
iwlist wlan0 scan
edit /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
ssid="your ssid name"
psk="your wireless password"
}
and then run
wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
to connect to the wireless router.
If you want to set the RR to connect to the wireless router automatically every time it boot up. Add the following to the /etc/network/interfaces
auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf