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WIFI & BT

WIFI & BT Supported Modules List​

| NO. | Model | Chip | WiFi | BT | WIFI Throughput | Remark | | --- | ------------------------ | ----------- | ------------- | --- | ------------------------------------ | ------ | --- | -------------------- | | 1 | Radxa wireless A8 | RTL8852BE | 2.4G&5G&WIFI6 | 5.0 | up:600 Mbits/sec down: 900 Mbits/sec | | | 2 | Intel 0MHK36 (PCIE+USB) | Intel 3165 | 2.4G&5G | 4.2 | up:283 Mbits/sec down: 334 Mbits/sec | | | 3 | Intel 7265NGW (PCIE+USB) | Intel 7265 | 2.4G&5G | 4.2 | up:363 Mbits/sec down: 619 Mbits/sec | | 4 | Intel AXA (PCIE+USB) | | 4 | Intel AX210 (PCIE+USB) | Intel AX210 | WiFi 6 | 5.2 | up:859 Mbits/sec down: 813 Mbits/sec | |

  • Radxa CM5 with Radxa CM5 IO board, there is no on-board WiFi/BT module, external module is required. The above are supported and tested WITI/BT cards.
  • The M.2 wireless module demonstrated here is: Radxa Wireless Module A8.

Radxa Wireless Module A8

  • Installation is as shown in the figure:

Radxa Wireless Module A8

WIFI Usage​

  1. Switch to the ROOT user mode.
sudo su
  1. Turn on the WIFI
nmcli r wifi on
  1. Scan WIFI
nmcli dev wifi
  1. Connect to the wifi network
nmcli dev wifi connect "wifi_name" password "wifi_password"

Bluetooth Usage​

  • When using Radxa Wireless A8 module, the following blacklist must be added for BT to work properly.
root@radxa-cm5-io:~# cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
blacklist pgdrv
blacklist btusb
blacklist btrtl
blacklist btbcm
blacklist btintel

root@radxa-cm5-io:~# reboot
  • Radxa APT includes the Broadcom-WiFIbt-Firmware package for broadcom wireless modules and the Intel-WiFIbt-Firmware package for intel wireless modules. You need to download the corresponding software package.
root@radxa-cm5-io:~# apt-get update -y
root@radxa-cm5-io:~# apt-get install -y broadcom-wifibt-firmware intel-wifibt-firmware
  1. Test the status of Bluetooth module and check Bluetooth device.
root@radxa-cm5-io:~# systemctl status bluetooth
  1. Run the Bluetooth device.
root@radxa-cm5-io:~# systemctl start bluetooth
  1. Detect Bluetooth devices
root@radxa-cm5-io:~# hciconfig
hci0:   Type: Primary Bus: UART
       BD Address: 10:2C:6B:49:D5:53 ACL MTU: 1021:8 SCO MTU: 64:1
       UP RUNNING
       RX bytes:850 acl:0 sco:0 events:58 errors:0
       TX bytes:2814 acl:0 sco:0 commands:58 errors:0
  1. Test: Connect Bluetooth speaker, first install pulseaudio
root@radxa-cm5-io:~# apt-get install -y pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pulseaudio
  1. Run pulseaudio
root@radxa:~# pulseaudio --start
  1. Connect using pulseaudio
root@radxa-cm5-io:~# bluetoothctl
[bluetooth]# default-agent
[bluetooth]# power on
[bluetooth]# scan on
[bluetooth]# trust 41:42:1A:8D:A9:65       #BT-280
[bluetooth]# pair 41:42:1A:8D:A9:65
[bluetooth]# connect 41:42:1A:8D:A9:65
  1. Now you can listen to music.

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