Bluetooth, Wifi support on RBPI3B+

Mon Jul 8 09:10:06 UTC 2019

On 2019-07-08 at 10:52 +0300 Stefan Parvu wrote:
> [...]
> SDIO like in here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SDIO ?
> If I understood right SDIO will be the first thing to have to support
> Wifi or Bluetooth drivers on top
> of SDIO. Right ?

As far as I know: Yes. The on-board WiFi and Bluetooth on the newer RPi's
is reachable via SDIO only.

> Wifi: No other possibilities to have on a RBPI3B+ Wifi working, using
> for example a Wifi USB dongle ?  
> Has anyone tested, used such configurations ?

rtwn0: <Realtek 802.11n NIC, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 4> on usbus0
rtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8188EU, RF 6052 1T1R

is working here together with wpa_supplicant(8) on an RPi B since years.

Ralf