Re: Raspberry Pi Zero W almost useless (TL-WN725N very good!)

Ramiro Aceves <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.arm,gmane.os.netbsd.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

El 9/2/24 a las 15:20, Michael escribió:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 06:25:56 +0100
> Ramiro Aceves <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>>> I have also the same problem that I had with the chineese 8188FTV,  as
>>>> soon I connect it to the raspberry pi it reboots inmediately. In the
>>>> next reboot it works fine. It occurs the same in another Zero W that I
>>>> own  with Raspbian and a different power supply. So I doubt that the
>>>> culprit is the power supply. The Zero W seems to be a very flaky device
>>>> in terms of power supply.
>>>>   
>>> A powered hub should fix that, when a device is plugged directly into the
>>> raspberry pis usb (IIRC only 300mA is available) it can cause reboots.
>>>    
>>
>> Oh yes, that would be a right technical fix for the problem but it's a
>> bit of an aberration in terms of cost and size to use a powered HUB with
>> its own power supply to fix a little thing like the ZeroW, you know.... ;-)
> 
> Just use the hub to power the Pi. I used to do that wit the Pi1 and 2.
> 
> have fun
> Michael

Hello.

Just want to share with you that TP-LINK TL-WN725N works very well with 
the raspberrypi Zero W.


netbsd-raspa# uname -a
NetBSD netbsd-raspa 10.0_RC3 NetBSD 10.0_RC3 (RPI) #0: Tue Jan 16 
08:28:51 UTC 2024 
[email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/RPI evbarm
netbsd-raspa#



netbsd-raspa# dmesg |grep urtwn
[     1.710793] urtwn0 at uhub0 port 1
[     1.710793] urtwn0: Realtek (0x0bda) 802.11n NIC (0x8179), rev 
2.00/0.00, addr 2
[     1.770890] urtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8188EU, RF 6052 1T1R, address 
e4:fa:c4:52:ac:4c
[     1.770890] urtwn0: 1 rx pipe, 2 tx pipes
[     1.740843] urtwn0 at uhub0 port 1
[     1.740843] urtwn0: Realtek (0x0bda) 802.11n NIC (0x8179), rev 
2.00/0.00, addr 2
[     1.800940] urtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8188EU, RF 6052 1T1R, address 
e4:fa:c4:52:ac:4c
[     1.800940] urtwn0: 1 rx pipe, 2 tx pipes
netbsd-raspa#




netbsd-raspa# ifconfig urtwn0
urtwn0: flags=0x8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	ssid MiFibra-3422 nwkey 65536:"",0xc81111000336c6e2b40b047cd2f5ef44,"",""
	powersave off
	bssid 60:8d:26:32:34:24 chan 1
	address: e4:fa:c4:52:ac:4c
	media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (OFDM54 mode 11g)
	status: active
	inet6 fe80::e6fa:c4ff:fe52:ac4c%urtwn0/64 flags 0 scopeid 0x1
	inet 192.168.1.230/24 broadcast 192.168.1.255 flags 0
netbsd-raspa#

I have been downloading many times the same 3.6 GB file from the 
internet with no failures just for testing. I have made a CVS checkout 
of the base system source and pkgsrc source fine.

Also have watched a 1h 30 m film using minidlna server in VLC over the 
local network with no failures at all.

With bwfm driver that was just impossible.

Great work!

Regards.
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