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How to Handle Faulty Hardware Device?

In a situation where you have enabled a new board and one of the devices is faulty or has some issues (e.g. driver, hardware, firmware, and so on), to continue with the setup, it is important to have an alternative option for the faulty device.

You can replace the respective faulty device with an external devices listed in the following table. The devices listed are hardware components with opensource drivers and have no usage restrictions.

Supported External Hardware Device
Device Chip Firmware status Dongle name Remarks
Ethernet RTL8153 linux-firmware Many available SFP variants available
WiFi RTl8192cu linux-firmware, license OURLiNK Works out-of-the-box
WiFi Ralink RT5372 linux-firmware, license PAU05 - Panda Wireless Works out-of-the-box
Bluetooth BCM20702A0 linux-firmwar, license PLUGABLE Works out-of-the-box
Bluetooth BCM20702A0 linux-firmwar, license Kinivo Works out-of-the-box
IEEE 802.15.4 AT86RF231 Flashed on device ATUSB Open hardware and firmware