Micropython for ESP32-C3 network module missing

[BOB63]

Hi , I've seen that in the last two release Micropython firmware is missing the network module ( I've not cheked in older release) , that is many time included into sketch where is required wifi connection. Is it substituted with some other module or what ?
Is there any way to download the module if isn't part of firmware ?
I've seen in google talk of mpip , upip but i've seen that in the modules available is present only pip , but has not the attribute install so pip.install("pakage_name") dosen't work.
Tks. Roberto

[glenn20]

The network module seems to be present on micropython 1.22 and 1.23 firmwares, eg. the network module is included in the images from the download page (eg. https://micropython.org/resources/firmware/ESP32_GENERIC-20240602-v1.23.0.bin):

import network

Can you provide more information, ie. are you compiling your own images or using downloaded images? Which device and which firmware image are you using? How do you know that the network module is not included in the firmware?

[BOB63]

Hi @mattytrentini , yes infact it dosen't works. The problems is that using the specific release for ESP32-C3 ( see initial post ) the module network seems to be not present.

[glenn20]

Ah. I'm afraid I dont have a c3 device, so cant confirm the presence of the network module.

Yes, you should not try to flash the ESP32_GENERIC-20240602-v1.23.0.bin image onto a C3 device. I only mentioned that because I couldnt see what device you were using in your message (although now I can see that you mentioned it in the title - an oversight on my part).

[robert-hh]

What is the output at REPL of the command:

print(help("modules"))

[BOB63]

I'M A STUPID !!!!!
I was using Thonny and forgot to update the interpreter for micropython esp32 so it was working with Python 3 !!!!!!
Changing the interpreter it works.
Lesson learned : Never start to program after 2 AM . :-(

[sosi-deadeye]

This happened more than once. If Thonny couldn't see any serial ports, it just uses the installed Python 3 interpreter.