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    8188eu recompilation

    Hello Community!
    After spending quite a few nights without any success, I think it's time for me to ask for some help...
    I have a UG802 clone that works well with the finless rom 1.8, including internal wifi. The wifi chip is a rtl 8188eu. Since my main PC died and I currently don't have money to buy a new mainboard+cpu+ram, I thought I'd put picuntu on this hdmi stick. Unfortunately, I see the scene is dead and buried, none of the original picuntu servers are up anymore. The only way I was able to put picuntu on it was to write a complete filesystem image on the SD card from here:
    http://freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-...-rk3066-ubuntu
    It works well except for the wifi chip, since there is no module for it in this SD card image.

    I tried to get 8188eu.ko from various sources, which were 3.0.8 kernel based, but none of them are accepted by modprobe, it rejects them with invalid module format.
    I was able to gather as much that I should recompile the module file on my own hdmi stick running picuntu, the source is up on github:
    https://github.com/aloksinha2001/pic...less/rtl8188eu

    Buttt there is a problem.... the headers are not included in picuntu. Which means I cannot recompile the module. To recompile the wifi module I would need headers. To get headers I would need internet. To have internet I would need wifi module.... I see no way out of this viscous cycle, so would someone be so kind to complie it for me or help in any way?

    I'll have to get back with what vermagic the other working modules report.

    Edit: they actually report the same vermagic : |
    3.0.8+ SMP preempt mod_unload ARMv7

    Then why is 8188eu.ko invalid format?

    #2
    For those whom this project still helps, I managed to get picuntu + internal wifi working with my UG802 clone (Vcom). After many days of searching, I found some asian site that still held a copy of the complete filesystem image for 802 with working wifi module. I saved it and uploaded it to google drive, so here's my link if someone needs this.
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxm...ew?usp=sharing
    The network config file had to be manually edited to this:
    auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback
    auto wlan1
    iface wlan1 inet dhcp
    wpa-ssid (your wifi ssid)
    wpa-psk (your wifi password)

    It's kind of strange that it had to be wlan1. In finless android which was also working with internal wifi, has wlan0 in its config file.
    Now I just want to find a way to put picuntu on the nand istead of the microSD. Any ideas on how I can make it boot from there? Do I have to change something in the kernel file to oot from nand instead of microSD ?
    If I simply flash picuntu with the rockhip tool as the kernel and system-img, I only get to command line busybox (initramfs)

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