Request for Pogo V3 OXNAS Wifi driver in future kernel 4.14.x release

[15358.892485] usb 1-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 5 using orion-ehci
[15358.944087] usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8179, bcdDevice= 0.00
[15358.953399] usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[15358.961579] usb 1-1.3: Product: 802.11n NIC
[15358.967434] usb 1-1.3: Manufacturer: Realtek
[15358.973096] usb 1-1.3: SerialNumber: 000B8195xxxx
[15359.210832] cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory database
[15359.739417] cfg80211: Loaded X.509 cert 'sforshee: 00b28ddf47aef9cea7'
[15359.747177] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
[15359.757660] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db
[15359.769469] lib80211: common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers
[15359.776385] lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
[15359.813976] r8188eu: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[15359.834811] Chip Version Info: CHIP_8188E_Normal_Chip_TSMC_UNKNOWN_CUT(10)_1T1R_RomVer(0)
[15359.887131] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8188eu
[15359.907465] systemd-udevd[2289]: Using default interface naming scheme 'v240'.
[15359.968467] systemd-udevd[2289]: link_config: autonegotiation is unset or enabled, the speed and duplex are not writable.
[15359.981080] r8188eu 1-1.3:1.0 wlxxxxxxxxxxxxx: renamed from wlan0
[15360.068511] systemd-udevd[2288]: Using default interface naming scheme 'v240'.

[  282.990067] usb 1-1.4: new high-speed USB device number 4 using oxnas-ehci
[  283.101150] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8179
[  283.108034] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  283.115699] usb 1-1.4: Product: 802.11n NIC
[  283.119907] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: Realtek
[  283.124602] usb 1-1.4: SerialNumber: 000B8195xxxx

$ dmesg
[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[    0.000000] Linux version 4.14.176-oxnas-tld-1 (root@tldDebian) (gcc version 8.3.0 (Debian 8.3.0-6)) #2 SMP PREEMPT Sun Apr 26 15:24:37 PDT 2020
[    0.000000] CPU: ARMv6-compatible processor [410fb025] revision 5 (ARMv7), cr=00c5787d
[    0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
[    0.000000] OF: fdt: Machine model: Pogoplug V3 Classic
[    0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writealloc
[    0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 32768
[    0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c0b304e0, node_mem_map c7ef9000
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 256 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 32768 pages, LIFO batch:7
[    0.000000] random: get_random_bytes called from start_kernel+0x84/0x3f4 with crng_init=0
[    0.000000] percpu: Embedded 15 pages/cpu s29548 r8192 d23700 u61440
[    0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s29548 r8192 d23700 u61440 alloc=15*4096
[    0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 [0] 1 
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 32512
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 mtdparts=41000000.nand:14m(boot),-(data)
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes)
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.000000] Memory: 114252K/131072K available (7168K kernel code, 199K rwdata, 1524K rodata, 1024K init, 245K bss, 16820K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[    0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
                   vector  : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000   (   4 kB)
                   fixmap  : 0xffc00000 - 0xfff00000   (3072 kB)
                   vmalloc : 0xc8800000 - 0xff800000   ( 880 MB)
                   lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xc8000000   ( 128 MB)
                   modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xc0000000   (  16 MB)
                     .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc0800000   (8160 kB)
                     .init : 0xc0a00000 - 0xc0b00000   (1024 kB)
                     .data : 0xc0b00000 - 0xc0b31f28   ( 200 kB)
                      .bss : 0xc0b38384 - 0xc0b757a0   ( 246 kB)
[    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=2, Nodes=1
[    0.000000] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
[    0.000000] 	Tasks RCU enabled.
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS: 16, nr_irqs: 16, preallocated irqs: 16
[    0.000000] FPGA IRQ chip 0 "interrupt-controller" @ c8804000, 32 irqs, parent IRQ: 16
[    0.000017] sched_clock: 24 bits at 390kHz, resolution 2560ns, wraps every 21474835200ns
[    0.000046] clocksource: oxnas_rps_clocksource_timer: mask: 0xffffff max_cycles: 0xffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112603332 ns
[    0.000058] timer_oxnas_rps: Registered clocksource rate 390625Hz
[    0.000081] timer_oxnas_rps: Registered clock event rate 6250000Hz prescaler 0 period 62500
[    0.000225] GIC: PPI13 is secure or misconfigured
[    0.000273] GIC: PPI13 is secure or misconfigured
[    0.000437] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[    0.000481] Calibrating delay loop... 339.14 BogoMIPS (lpj=1695744)
[    0.050368] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.050624] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.050647] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.051543] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[    0.090432] Setting up static identity map for 0x60100000 - 0x60100038
[    0.110330] Hierarchical SRCU implementation.
[    0.150336] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
[    0.220436] GIC: PPI13 is secure or misconfigured
[    0.280616] smp: Brought up 1 node, 2 CPUs
[    0.280650] SMP: Total of 2 processors activated (678.29 BogoMIPS).
[    0.281374] devtmpfs: initialized
[    0.286510] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[    0.286543] futex hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.286873] prandom: seed boundary self test passed
[    0.291159] prandom: 100 self tests passed
[    0.291179] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[    0.291863] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.293473] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[    0.295616] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[    0.295682] cpuidle: using governor menu
[    0.313187] vgaarb: loaded
[    0.313715] SCSI subsystem initialized
[    0.314055] libata version 3.00 loaded.
[    0.314401] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[    0.314508] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[    0.314659] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    0.314844] pps_core: LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered
[    0.314859] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
[    0.314892] PTP clock support registered
[    0.315919] clocksource: Switched to clocksource oxnas_rps_clocksource_timer
[    0.331481] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.332392] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.332436] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.332472] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
[    0.332636] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.332684] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[    0.332953] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    0.333752] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[    0.333772] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[    0.333785] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[    0.333798] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[    0.333816] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 32
[    0.334187] Unpacking initramfs...
[    0.888391] Freeing initrd memory: 4776K
[    0.889579] Initialise system trusted keyrings
[    0.889666] Key type blacklist registered
[    0.889986] workingset: timestamp_bits=30 max_order=15 bucket_order=0
[    0.897223] zbud: loaded
[    0.901647] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type
[    0.901690] Key type id_resolver registered
[    0.901703] Key type id_legacy registered
[    0.901731] nfs4filelayout_init: NFSv4 File Layout Driver Registering...
[    0.901747] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
[    0.902553] fuse init (API version 7.26)
[    0.903434] orangefs_debugfs_init: called with debug mask: :none: :0:
[    0.903685] orangefs_init: module version upstream loaded
[    2.876456] Key type asymmetric registered
[    2.876490] Asymmetric key parser 'x509' registered
[    2.876597] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 249)
[    2.876618] io scheduler noop registered
[    2.876633] io scheduler deadline registered
[    2.876697] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[    2.878320] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[    2.879731] console [ttyS0] disabled
[    2.879869] 44200000.serial: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x44200000 (irq = 55, base_baud = 390625) is a 16550A
[    3.454241] console [ttyS0] enabled
[    3.468167] loop: module loaded
[    3.473185] scsi host0: sata_oxnas
[    3.476935] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 irq 57
[    3.481128] sata_oxnas: resetting SATA core
[    3.546263] nand: Could not find valid ONFI parameter page; aborting
[    3.552599] nand: device found, Manufacturer ID: 0xad, Chip ID: 0xf1
[    3.558973] nand: Hynix NAND 128MiB 3,3V 8-bit
[    3.563399] nand: 128 MiB, SLC, erase size: 128 KiB, page size: 2048, OOB size: 64
[    3.570982] Scanning device for bad blocks
[    3.657817] 2 ofpart partitions found on MTD device 41000000.nand-controller
[    3.664837] Creating 2 MTD partitions on "41000000.nand-controller":
[    3.671206] 0x000000000000-0x000000e00000 : "boot"
[    3.677649] 0x000000e00000-0x000008000000 : "data"
[    3.685378] libphy: Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[    3.689968] oxnas-dwmac 40400000.ethernet: PTP uses main clock
[    3.695787] oxnas-dwmac 40400000.ethernet: no reset control found
[    3.766021] stmmac - user ID: 0x12, Synopsys ID: 0x35
[    3.771056] oxnas-dwmac 40400000.ethernet: Ring mode enabled
[    3.776744] oxnas-dwmac 40400000.ethernet: DMA HW capability register supported
[    3.784023] oxnas-dwmac 40400000.ethernet: Enhanced/Alternate descriptors
[    3.790812] oxnas-dwmac 40400000.ethernet: Enabled extended descriptors
[    3.797424] oxnas-dwmac 40400000.ethernet: RX Checksum Offload Engine supported
[    3.804702] oxnas-dwmac 40400000.ethernet: COE Type 2
[    3.809753] oxnas-dwmac 40400000.ethernet: TX Checksum insertion supported
[    3.816629] oxnas-dwmac 40400000.ethernet: Wake-Up On Lan supported
[    3.822881] oxnas-dwmac 40400000.ethernet (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): device MAC address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
[    3.827786] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
[    3.833384] oxnas-dwmac 40400000.ethernet: Enable RX Mitigation via HW Watchdog Timer
[    3.868797] libphy: stmmac: probed
[    3.872202] mdio_bus stmmac-0:00: attached PHY driver [unbound] (mii_bus:phy_addr=stmmac-0:00, irq=POLL)
[    3.881689] mdio_bus stmmac-0:03: attached PHY driver [unbound] (mii_bus:phy_addr=stmmac-0:03, irq=POLL)
[    3.892078] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[    3.896696] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[    3.903201] ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver
[    4.116049] oxnas-ehci 40200100.ehci: EHCI Host Controller
[    4.121564] oxnas-ehci 40200100.ehci: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[    4.129446] oxnas-ehci 40200100.ehci: irq 52, io mem 0x40200100
[    4.155985] oxnas-ehci 40200100.ehci: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[    4.162291] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
[    4.169113] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[    4.176340] usb usb1: Product: EHCI Host Controller
[    4.181199] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 4.14.176-oxnas-tld-1 ehci_hcd
[    4.187816] usb usb1: SerialNumber: 40200100.ehci
[    4.193295] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[    4.197204] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[    4.202224] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_wdm
[    4.208064] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[    4.214179] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
[    4.220167] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
[    4.226787] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for generic
[    4.233062] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[    4.238855] i2c /dev entries driver
[    4.243494] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
[    4.249118] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[    4.254663] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[    4.259863] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[    4.265735] Segment Routing with IPv6
[    4.269544] sit: IPv6, IPv4 and MPLS over IPv4 tunneling driver
[    4.277268] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    4.281832] Key type dns_resolver registered
[    4.287262] registered taskstats version 1
[    4.291343] Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates
[    4.296304] zswap: loaded using pool lzo/zbud
[    4.334784] Key type big_key registered
[    4.354247] Key type encrypted registered
[    4.360332] hctosys: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
[    4.367470] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1024K
[    4.552496] random: systemd-udevd: uninitialized urandom read (16 bytes read)
[    4.561254] random: systemd-udevd: uninitialized urandom read (16 bytes read)
[    4.563765] random: udevadm: uninitialized urandom read (16 bytes read)
[    4.568540] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using oxnas-ehci
[    4.798036] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0608
[    4.804764] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
[    4.822937] usb 1-1: Product: USB2.0 Hub
[    4.830330] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[    4.838018] hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
[    5.166069] usb 1-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 3 using oxnas-ehci
[    5.342594] usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=1567, idProduct=8902
[    5.349509] usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[    5.356851] usb 1-1.3: Product: USB Product String123456
[    5.362140] usb 1-1.3: Manufacturer: USB Flash Disk
[    5.367037] usb 1-1.3: SerialNumber: 121030032032
[    5.372830] usb-storage 1-1.3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[    5.379796] scsi host1: usb-storage 1-1.3:1.0
[    5.485972] usb 1-1.4: new high-speed USB device number 4 using oxnas-ehci
[    5.637091] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8179
[    5.643962] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[    5.651317] usb 1-1.4: Product: 802.11n NIC
[    5.655488] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: Realtek
[    5.659860] usb 1-1.4: SerialNumber: 000B81xxxxxx
[    5.687715] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[    5.738009] netpoll: netconsole: local port 6666
[    5.742937] netpoll: netconsole: local IPv4 address 192.168.1.15
[    5.749619] netpoll: netconsole: interface 'eth0'
[    5.754736] netpoll: netconsole: remote port 6666
[    5.759493] netpoll: netconsole: remote IPv4 address 192.168.1.2
[    5.765821] netpoll: netconsole: remote ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
[    5.773053] netpoll: netconsole: device eth0 not up yet, forcing it
[    5.780354] oxnas-dwmac 40400000.ethernet eth0: No phy led trigger registered for speed(-1)
[    5.788733] Generic PHY stmmac-0:00: attached PHY driver [Generic PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=stmmac-0:00, irq=POLL)
[    5.802711] oxnas-dwmac 40400000.ethernet eth0: IEEE 1588-2008 Advanced Timestamp supported
[    5.813831] oxnas-dwmac 40400000.ethernet eth0: registered PTP clock
[    5.821278] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[    6.407956] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SCSIDISK SCSI_DISK_1234   1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[    6.424593] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 7880704 512-byte logical blocks: (4.03 GB/3.76 GiB)
[    6.434329] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[    6.443133] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[    6.445278] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page found
[    6.451123] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[    6.473085]  sda: sda1
[    6.486845] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
[    6.529671] random: fast init done
[    6.886899] oxnas-dwmac 40400000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 100Mbps/Full - flow control rx/tx
[    6.895511] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[    6.929648] console [netcon0] enabled
[    6.933317] netconsole: network logging started
[   17.338339] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[   21.752842] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro
[   26.190648] random: crng init done
[   26.194076] random: 7 urandom warning(s) missed due to ratelimiting

$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
netconsole             16384  0
configfs               32768  2 netconsole
uas                    20480  0
dwmac_generic          16384  0

[  528.981306] usb 1-1.4: new high-speed USB device number 5 using oxnas-ehci
[  529.132469] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8179
[  529.139371] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  529.147200] usb 1-1.4: Product: 802.11n NIC
[  529.151459] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: Realtek
[  529.155824] usb 1-1.4: SerialNumber: 000B81xxxxxx

modprobe rtl8xxxu

[ 1033.157969] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8xxxu

# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
rtl8xxxu               94208  0
mac80211              372736  1 rtl8xxxu
cfg80211              266240  1 mac80211
rfkill                 20480  1 cfg80211
netconsole             16384  0
configfs               32768  2 netconsole
uas                    20480  0
dwmac_generic          16384  0

# iwconfig
sit0      no wireless extensions.

ip6tnl0   no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

mkdir -p /lib/modules/4.14.176-oxnas-tld-1/kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/
cp -a r8188eu.ko /lib/modules/4.14.176-oxnas-tld-1/kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/

modprobe r8188eu

# modprobe r8188eu
modprobe: FATAL: Module r8188eu not found in directory /lib/modules/4.14.176-oxnas-tld-1

cd /lib/modules/4.14.176-oxnas-tld-1/kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/
modprobe r8188eu

# cd /lib/modules/4.14.176-oxnas-tld-1/kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/
# ls
r8188eu.ko
# modprobe r8188eu
modprobe: FATAL: Module r8188eu not found in directory /lib/modules/4.14.176-oxnas-tld-1

depmod -a; modprobe r8188eu

insmod /lib/modules/4.14.176-oxnas-tld-1/kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/r8188eu.ko

> depmod -a; modprobe r8188eu
>

> insmod
> /lib/modules/4.14.176-oxnas-tld-1/kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/r8188eu.ko
>

# depmod -a; modprobe r8188eu
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'r8188eu': Exec format error

# insmod insmod /lib/modules/4.14.176-oxnas-tld-1/kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/r8188eu.ko
insmod: ERROR: could not load module insmod: No such file or directory

> # depmod -a; modprobe r8188eu
> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'r8188eu': Exec
> format error
> 
> # insmod insmod
> /lib/modules/4.14.176-oxnas-tld-1/kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/r8188eu.ko
> insmod: ERROR: could not load module insmod: No
> such file or directory
> 
>

modprobe -f

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Updated 14 May 2020:

Kernel linux-4.14.180-oxnas-tld-1 package was uploaded.

New/Update features:

- Pick up Security patch from mainline.
- Fix the SATA problem with Pogo V3 Pro.
- Enable the kernel to use the persistent MAC address passed by u-boot to bring up network.
- Add staging Wifi driver r8188eu.