Hi everybody!
Since this issue has cropped up in multiple places I took a shortcut and decided to post my findings in a new thread. I am successfully running my Minix Z83-4 Pro with Slackware Linux. The 4.19 series kernel of Slackware's -current branch has basically all of the hardware working out of the box (the internal MMC drive, Video, Audio, Bluetooth - haven't tried the cardreader yet).
For the WIFI I followed the instructions here on the forum, and salvaged the 4345r6nvram.txt from Windows before wiping the drive, and copied/renamed it to the appropriate firmware directory on Linux. Everything looked good, except that I couldn't connect to any 5 GHz WIFI networks. Looking at the output of iw phy phy0 channels I saw most of the channels disabled except a few high ones (149+), and among the many things I tried subsequently, I reconfigured my router to one of those channels to (successfully) prove that 5G is generally working on the Minix. Unfortunately, most of my other devices refused to connect to those channels, so this was not a permanent solution.
I tried various incarnations of setting the regulatory domain (iw reg set amongst others) of the WIFI adapter, and although everything indicated a successful switch (iw phy phy0 channels would display the proper channels enabled), I still was not able to find the 5g networks on my Z83-4.
As a last resort, following a hunch, today I downloaded the 4345r6nvram.txt that had been posted here in the forum (which I hadn't done so far, because I didn't want to register for yet another forum, but anyway...), and did a diff with my version.
In turns out that my 4345r6nvram.txt that I salvaged from the pre-installed Windows, and which is also included in the official driver package, contains two additional lines:
I removed them from my file, rebooted, and - voila! - WIFI is up and detecting and successfully connecting to my 5 GHz hotspot. I might have tried to set it to the proper country code, but I didn't want to push my luck just yet.
Hope that helps.
Since this issue has cropped up in multiple places I took a shortcut and decided to post my findings in a new thread. I am successfully running my Minix Z83-4 Pro with Slackware Linux. The 4.19 series kernel of Slackware's -current branch has basically all of the hardware working out of the box (the internal MMC drive, Video, Audio, Bluetooth - haven't tried the cardreader yet).
For the WIFI I followed the instructions here on the forum, and salvaged the 4345r6nvram.txt from Windows before wiping the drive, and copied/renamed it to the appropriate firmware directory on Linux. Everything looked good, except that I couldn't connect to any 5 GHz WIFI networks. Looking at the output of iw phy phy0 channels I saw most of the channels disabled except a few high ones (149+), and among the many things I tried subsequently, I reconfigured my router to one of those channels to (successfully) prove that 5G is generally working on the Minix. Unfortunately, most of my other devices refused to connect to those channels, so this was not a permanent solution.
I tried various incarnations of setting the regulatory domain (iw reg set amongst others) of the WIFI adapter, and although everything indicated a successful switch (iw phy phy0 channels would display the proper channels enabled), I still was not able to find the 5g networks on my Z83-4.
As a last resort, following a hunch, today I downloaded the 4345r6nvram.txt that had been posted here in the forum (which I hadn't done so far, because I didn't want to register for yet another forum, but anyway...), and did a diff with my version.
In turns out that my 4345r6nvram.txt that I salvaged from the pre-installed Windows, and which is also included in the official driver package, contains two additional lines:
Code:
ccode=CN
regrev=38Hope that helps.
