WIFI & BT

List of WIFI & BT support modules

NO.	Model	Chip	WiFi	BT	WIFI Throughput	Remark
1	ROCK Pi Wireless Module A1 (SDIO+UART) --- AP6236	BCM43436B0	2.4G	4.2	up:23.5 Mbits/sec down:40.4 Mbits/sec
2	ROCK Pi Wireless Module A2 (SDIO+UART) --- AP6256	BCM43456	2.4G&5G	5.0	up:196 Mbits/sec down: 187 Mbits/sec
3	ROCK Pi Wireless Module A3 (SDIO+UART) --- AP6398S	BCM43598	2.4G&5G	5.0	up:336 Mbits/sec down: 315 Mbits/sec
4	ROCK Pi Wireless Module A6s (SDIO+UART) --- AP6275S	BCM43752	2.4G&5G	5.0	up:234 Mbits/sec down: 273 Mbits/sec
5	Radxa wireless A8	RTL8852BE	2.4G&5G&WIFI6	5.0	up:600Mbits/sec down:900 Mbits/sec
6	Intel 0MHK36 (PCIE+USB)	Intel 3165	2.4G&5G	4.2	up:283 Mbits/sec down: 334 Mbits/sec
7	Intel 7265NGW (PCIE+USB)	Intel 7265	2.4G&5G	4.2	up:363 Mbits/sec down: 619 Mbits/sec
8	Intel AX210 (PCIE+USB)	Intel AX210	WiFi 6	5.2	up: 859 Mbits/sec down: 813 Mbits/sec

• ROCK 5B does not have onboard WiFi/BT module and requires an external module. These are the WITI/BT cards that have been supported and tested.
• The M.2 wireless module demonstrated here is: Radxa wireless Module A8.

Radxa wireless module A8

• Installation is shown as follows:

Radxa wireless module A8

WIFI Usage

1. Switch to the ROOT user mode.

sudo su

2. Turn on the WIFI

nmcli r wifi on

3. Scan WIFI

nmcli dev wifi

4. 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@rock-5b:~# cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
blacklist pgdrv
blacklist btusb
blacklist btrtl
blacklist btbcm
blacklist btintel

root@rock-5b:~# 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@rock-5b:~# apt-get update -y
root@rock-5b:~# apt-get install -y broadcom-wifibt-firmware intel-wifibt-firmware

1. Test the status of Bluetooth module and check Bluetooth device.

root@rock-5b:~# systemctl status bluetooth

2. Run the Bluetooth device.

root@rock-5b:~# systemctl start bluetooth

3. Detect Bluetooth devices

root@rock-5b:~# 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

4. Test: Connect Bluetooth speaker, first install pulseaudio

root@rock-5b:~# apt-get install -y pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pulseaudio

5. Run pulseaudio

root@rock-5b:~# pulseaudio --start

6. Connect using pulseaudio

root@rock-5b:~# 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

7. Now you can listen to music.

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