wifi support

[Redhawk18]

Hey this project has been so helpful, I'm just stuck on the final step of connecting to a network before I can install. Do you know why iwctl doesn't show any devices? Some of the changes I've made to the template are

enabling wifi hardware.

{ ... }:
{
  # Hardware can be turned on and off here
  board.hardware.enabled = {
    # If you are useing Orange Pi 5, uncomment the line below to turn the LED off
    # led = false;

    # Uncomment the line below to turn on the AP6275P Wi-Fi module
    wifi-ap6275p = true;
  };
  networking.hostName = "orangepi5";
}

and adding iwd into my config

{ pkgs, ... }:
{
  # You can set your timezone here
  # time.timeZone = "Europe/Dublin";

  nixpkgs = {
    # to build on aarch64 machine
    # hostPlatform = { system = "aarch64-linux"; };

    # to build on x86_64 machine
    hostPlatform = {
      system = "aarch64-linux";
    };
    buildPlatform = {
      system = "x86_64-linux";
    };
  };

  nix.settings.experimental-features = [
    "nix-command"
    "flakes"
  ];
  services.openssh.enable = true;

  users.users.nixos = {
    isNormalUser = true;
    password = "nixos";
    extraGroups = [ "wheel" ];
  };

  networking = {
    firewall.enable = false;

    wireless.iwd = {
      enable = true;
      settings = {
        Rank = {
          BandModifier2_4GHz = 1;
          BandModifier5GHz = 2;
        };
        Settings = {
          AutoConnect = true;
        };

      };
    };

  };

  hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware = true;

  system.stateVersion = "24.11";
}

[Redhawk18]

I've done some more research and figured out the cause. I have a orange pi 5 pro, but I'm using the orange pi 5 config. While use its completely compatible, it does NOT include the wifi on the 5b, pro, or max orange pi 5 * boards.

[Redhawk18]

Which I don't really understand since I enabled wifi-ap6275p = true; right?

[Redhawk18]

no luck with eth0 either

[dvdjv]

The wifi-ap6275p option enables the corresponding device tree overlay. It makes the adapter visible to the kernel, but there are other things involved in getting it to work. I never tested it properly. My first guess would be that it doesn't work due to firmware loading issues. It might also require copying some components from Armbian/OrangePi OS. I'll try to look into it if I have time.