There is no wifi interface in openwrt

[ole.g]

Good day. I got Pi E today, installed Openwrt, but there is no wifi interface … What should I do?
openwrt-rockchip-armv8-radxa_rock-pi-e-ext4-sysupgrade.img

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000
link/ether c2:e8:##:##:##:## brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.0.12/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::c0e8:####:####:####:####/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master br-lan state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 42:68:bc:1f:92:f3 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: br-lan: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 42:68:##:##:##:## brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.1/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global br-lan
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fd34:####:####::1/60 scope global
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::####:####:####:####/64 scope link

in the web interface is also missing wireless…
the module is not working properly? return?
Thnx

[ole.g]

OpenWrt builds [testing]

@Jim_McPherson Both the RTL8723DU and the RTL8821CU are not supported in OpenWrt because of the lack of updated drivers. Self-maintained drivers can be found from different users in GitHub but it lacks basic functionality such as AP mode. Discussion here: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/the-rtl8189-and-similar-drivers-are-not-compatible-with-commit-mac80211-rebase-ontop-of-v4-18-5-and-newer/31034/10?u=jayanta525 and

[student]

I am running the same problem

Rock Pi E that I bought has 512MB. So I believe it has RTL8723DU (Wlan 2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.2).

When I booted the board, though I see the blue LED light blinking, I don’t see “Wireless” listed under “Network” when I log into LuCI admin portal from the browser. And I am not sure what I should look for from “dmesg” output.

When I installed Armbian, the same board boots up fine and WiFi is also working fine ! I was able to connect it to my home network and I could also have it as an Access Point as well.

I would like to use OpenWRT as it has everything else out of the box for our needs.

I am not a driver developer or any expert.

Being naive here : Wondering if anyone will take the code from Armbian codebase and port it to OpenWRT (assuming it’s all possible techincally and legally) ?

I followed this thread and at the end of it, Stephen from Radxa team has posted the link for the driver code (https://dl.radxa.com/rockpie/source/wifi/) for RTL8723DU.

Can anyone share the knowledge in how to integrate the above code into OpenWRT so that it can work with the 512 MB version of Rock Pi E ?

Apprecaite any thoughts, advice.

[akal]

I am waiting for the solution.