Add symlinks to enable StarFive boards AP6212 Wi-Fi module

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Add symlinks to enable StarFive boards AP6212 Wi-Fi module

[Impact]

 * StarFive VisionFIve v1, BeagleV Starlight & Starlight r0 boards use AP6212 Wi-Fi module
 * linux-firmware should ship symlinks to .txt files to enable Wi-Fi on those boards

[Test Plan]

 * Install updated linux-firmware, check that Wi-Fi works on the affected boards

[Where problems could occur]

 * Generic AP5212 Wi-Fi module settings seem to work correctly on these boards, if needed in the future these .txt files may need to be converted to stand-alone files if board specific parameter tuning becomes desired.

[Other Info]

 * Based on starfive-tech git repositories

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Hello Dimitri, or anyone else affected,

Accepted linux-firmware into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Alexandre Ghiti (alexghiti)]

I have just tested the linux-firmware package 20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.3 from jammy which contains this fix on the VisionFive board.

I installed the package and checked that it allows to make the Wifi work, I was able to connect to local AP and ping google.

Thanks

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-firmware - 20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.3

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linux-firmware (20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.3) jammy; urgency=medium

  * [SRU][F][linux-firmware] UBUNTU: SAUCE: Update firmware of WCN6855 (LP: #1972806)
    - SAUCE: WCN6855 hw2.0: 1.1: add WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.9
  * Add symlinks to enable StarFive boards AP6212 Wi-Fi module (LP: #1977872)
    - WHENCE: add symlinks for StarFive based boards

 -- Juerg Haefliger <email address hidden> Tue, 21 Jun 2022 11:28:31 +0200

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for linux-firmware has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.