Gumstix Wifi

Gumstix Wifi

[joshua.marinacci]

Hi guys. After becoming very frustrated with Gumstix' prefab images I came to the  Yocto presentation at OSCON a week ago and was very impressed.  I've started building a distro for my Gumstix Overo but have ran into a few roadblocks that I'm hoping you can help with.

First, I started with the latest Yocto, meta-gumstix and meta-ti from git and I can successfully compile and boot core-image-minimal.  Of course that doesn't have networking.  

Next, I tried running Hob to add networking packages.  Hob does not seem to work with meta-ti.  I can launch but when I add the meta-ti layer and choose a machine it fails with "ExpansionError during parsing %s:%s".  Of course it is not helpful in providing which file the parsing error was in. :)

Next, I tried simply adding  wpa_supplicant to the image by adding this line to my local.conf and compiling from the command line.

CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "wpa-supplicant"


This does work. When I boot the wpa stuff is included but I still don't have a network driver loaded.  If I include the built modules-3.2.19-r0-overo.tgz in my rootfs I can cd into the directory with all of the modules.  However insmod libertas.ko fails with 

	insmod: can't insert 'libertas_tf_usb.ko': unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter

and modprobe fails with

	modprobe: module libertas not found in modules.dep


So, what should I do to make sure the libertas module is compiled correctly, included in my kernel, and then actually used at runtime?

Thank you all for your help. I'm very excited about the Yocto project.

- Josh

Re: Gumstix Wifi

[Enrico]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:30 PM,  <joshua.marinacci@nokia.com> wrote:
> This does work. When I boot the wpa stuff is included but I still don't have a network driver loaded.  If I include the built modules-3.2.19-r0-overo.tgz in my rootfs I can cd into the directory with all of the modules.  However insmod libertas.ko fails with
>
>         insmod: can't insert 'libertas_tf_usb.ko': unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter
>
> and modprobe fails with
>
>         modprobe: module libertas not found in modules.dep
>
>
> So, what should I do to make sure the libertas module is compiled correctly, included in my kernel, and then actually used at runtime?

try with "depmod -a" (this must be done only once after you untar the
modules) before modprobe libertas.

I am not sure but i think it was "modprobe libertas_sdio", try that
too. And of course you will need the libertas firmware
(sd8686....bin).

Enrico

Re: Gumstix Wifi

[joshua.marinacci]

Hmm. I don't see to have depmod installed.  Perhaps that is part of my problem. What package would I need to add to the minimal-core-image to get that?

thanks,
	Josh
On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:07 AM, ext Enrico wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:30 PM,  <joshua.marinacci@nokia.com> wrote:
>> This does work. When I boot the wpa stuff is included but I still don't have a network driver loaded.  If I include the built modules-3.2.19-r0-overo.tgz in my rootfs I can cd into the directory with all of the modules.  However insmod libertas.ko fails with
>> 
>>        insmod: can't insert 'libertas_tf_usb.ko': unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter
>> 
>> and modprobe fails with
>> 
>>        modprobe: module libertas not found in modules.dep
>> 
>> 
>> So, what should I do to make sure the libertas module is compiled correctly, included in my kernel, and then actually used at runtime?
> 
> try with "depmod -a" (this must be done only once after you untar the
> modules) before modprobe libertas.
> 
> I am not sure but i think it was "modprobe libertas_sdio", try that
> too. And of course you will need the libertas firmware
> (sd8686....bin).
> 
> Enrico

Re: Gumstix Wifi

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 07:10:23PM +0000, joshua.marinacci@nokia.com wrote:
> Hmm. I don't see to have depmod installed.  Perhaps that is part of my 
> problem. What package would I need to add to the minimal-core-image to get 
> that?

Josh,

core-image-minimal uses busybox for tools like insmod and modprobe. The 
default configuration for busybox does not have depmod enabled. As of 
module-init-tools, they are being built, but not installed on the filesystem. 
So, you can either modify busybox config to enable depmod, or add 
module-init-tools-depmod package to your filesystem. The new way is to use 
kmod, which is available in oe-core master, or meta-oe in denzil. But oe-core 
master setup is broken for me at the moment, so I can't verify that kmod is 
included. At least it's not listed in the image/task...

Denys


> On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:07 AM, ext Enrico wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:30 PM,  <joshua.marinacci@nokia.com> wrote:
> >> This does work. When I boot the wpa stuff is included but I still don't have a network driver loaded.  If I include the built modules-3.2.19-r0-overo.tgz in my rootfs I can cd into the directory with all of the modules.  However insmod libertas.ko fails with
> >> 
> >>        insmod: can't insert 'libertas_tf_usb.ko': unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter
> >> 
> >> and modprobe fails with
> >> 
> >>        modprobe: module libertas not found in modules.dep
> >> 
> >> 
> >> So, what should I do to make sure the libertas module is compiled correctly, included in my kernel, and then actually used at runtime?
> > 
> > try with "depmod -a" (this must be done only once after you untar the
> > modules) before modprobe libertas.
> > 
> > I am not sure but i think it was "modprobe libertas_sdio", try that
> > too. And of course you will need the libertas firmware
> > (sd8686....bin).
> > 
> > Enrico
> 
> _______________________________________________
> meta-ti mailing list
> meta-ti@yoctoproject.org
> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-ti

Re: Gumstix Wifi

[joshua.marinacci]

ah, that explains it then.

Okay, so I've made a bit more progress. I added some more packages to my build my appending this to my build/conf/local.conf

CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "wpa-supplicant"
CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "wireless-tools"
#CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "resolveconf"
CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "openssl"
CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "zeroconf"
CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "modutils-initscripts"
CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "update-modules"


This gives me depmod and the rest.  Now I can manually load drivers and depmod -a succeeds.  However, I still can't activate the wlan0.   ifup wlan0 gives me

root@overo:~# ifup wlan0
Could not read interface wlan0 flags: No such device
WEXT: Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP
wlan0: Failed to initialize driver interface

On a hunch I looked at /var/log/messages and it says near the end:


Jul 30 23:17:03 overo user.info kernel: libertas_sdio: Libertas SDIO driver
Jul 30 23:17:03 overo user.info kernel: libertas_sdio: Copyright Pierre Ossman
Jul 30 23:17:03 overo user.err kernel: libertas_sdio: failed to find firmware (-2)


You mentioned the firmware. Where do I get that?


Incidentally, I don't get all of the kernel boot messages when my gumstix boots.  It says 

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.

Yocto (Built by Poky 7.0) 1.2+snapshot-20120730 overo ttyO2

overo login:


And then I'm at the login prompt.  I'm assuming there is some boot setting which controls this? All of the messages are showing up in /var/log/messages, however.

Thanks,

 Josh


On Jul 30, 2012, at 12:42 PM, ext Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 07:10:23PM +0000, joshua.marinacci@nokia.com wrote:
>> Hmm. I don't see to have depmod installed.  Perhaps that is part of my 
>> problem. What package would I need to add to the minimal-core-image to get 
>> that?
> 
> Josh,
> 
> core-image-minimal uses busybox for tools like insmod and modprobe. The 
> default configuration for busybox does not have depmod enabled. As of 
> module-init-tools, they are being built, but not installed on the filesystem. 
> So, you can either modify busybox config to enable depmod, or add 
> module-init-tools-depmod package to your filesystem. The new way is to use 
> kmod, which is available in oe-core master, or meta-oe in denzil. But oe-core 
> master setup is broken for me at the moment, so I can't verify that kmod is 
> included. At least it's not listed in the image/task...
> 
> Denys
> 
> 
>> On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:07 AM, ext Enrico wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:30 PM,  <joshua.marinacci@nokia.com> wrote:
>>>> This does work. When I boot the wpa stuff is included but I still don't have a network driver loaded.  If I include the built modules-3.2.19-r0-overo.tgz in my rootfs I can cd into the directory with all of the modules.  However insmod libertas.ko fails with
>>>> 
>>>>       insmod: can't insert 'libertas_tf_usb.ko': unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter
>>>> 
>>>> and modprobe fails with
>>>> 
>>>>       modprobe: module libertas not found in modules.dep
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> So, what should I do to make sure the libertas module is compiled correctly, included in my kernel, and then actually used at runtime?
>>> 
>>> try with "depmod -a" (this must be done only once after you untar the
>>> modules) before modprobe libertas.
>>> 
>>> I am not sure but i think it was "modprobe libertas_sdio", try that
>>> too. And of course you will need the libertas firmware
>>> (sd8686....bin).
>>> 
>>> Enrico
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> meta-ti mailing list
>> meta-ti@yoctoproject.org
>> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-ti

Re: Gumstix Wifi

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:31:10AM +0000, joshua.marinacci@nokia.com wrote:
> Incidentally, I don't get all of the kernel boot messages when my gumstix 
> boots.  It says 
> 
> Starting kernel ...
> 
> Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
> 
> Yocto (Built by Poky 7.0) 1.2+snapshot-20120730 overo ttyO2
> 
> overo login:
> 
> 
> And then I'm at the login prompt.  I'm assuming there is some boot setting 
> which controls this? All of the messages are showing up in 
> /var/log/messages, however.

What's your "bootargs" variable in u-boot? Does it contain "quiet"? Does it 
have the proper console settings?

-- 
Denys


> On Jul 30, 2012, at 12:42 PM, ext Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 07:10:23PM +0000, joshua.marinacci@nokia.com wrote:
> >> Hmm. I don't see to have depmod installed.  Perhaps that is part of my 
> >> problem. What package would I need to add to the minimal-core-image to get 
> >> that?
> > 
> > Josh,
> > 
> > core-image-minimal uses busybox for tools like insmod and modprobe. The 
> > default configuration for busybox does not have depmod enabled. As of 
> > module-init-tools, they are being built, but not installed on the filesystem. 
> > So, you can either modify busybox config to enable depmod, or add 
> > module-init-tools-depmod package to your filesystem. The new way is to use 
> > kmod, which is available in oe-core master, or meta-oe in denzil. But oe-core 
> > master setup is broken for me at the moment, so I can't verify that kmod is 
> > included. At least it's not listed in the image/task...
> > 
> > Denys
> > 
> > 
> >> On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:07 AM, ext Enrico wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:30 PM,  <joshua.marinacci@nokia.com> wrote:
> >>>> This does work. When I boot the wpa stuff is included but I still don't have a network driver loaded.  If I include the built modules-3.2.19-r0-overo.tgz in my rootfs I can cd into the directory with all of the modules.  However insmod libertas.ko fails with
> >>>> 
> >>>>       insmod: can't insert 'libertas_tf_usb.ko': unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter
> >>>> 
> >>>> and modprobe fails with
> >>>> 
> >>>>       modprobe: module libertas not found in modules.dep
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> So, what should I do to make sure the libertas module is compiled correctly, included in my kernel, and then actually used at runtime?
> >>> 
> >>> try with "depmod -a" (this must be done only once after you untar the
> >>> modules) before modprobe libertas.
> >>> 
> >>> I am not sure but i think it was "modprobe libertas_sdio", try that
> >>> too. And of course you will need the libertas firmware
> >>> (sd8686....bin).
> >>> 
> >>> Enrico
> >> 
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> meta-ti mailing list
> >> meta-ti@yoctoproject.org
> >> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-ti
> 
> _______________________________________________
> meta-ti mailing list
> meta-ti@yoctoproject.org
> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-ti
> 

Re: Gumstix Wifi

[joshua.marinacci]

Well, If I hit a key to stop the boot then execute printenv: it shows me this:

et:   No ethernet found.
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
Overo # printenv
bootcmd=if mmc init; then if run loadbootscript; then run bootscript; else if run loaduimage; then run mmcboot; else run nandboot; fi; fi; else run nandboot;
 fi
bootdelay=5
baudrate=115200
loadaddr=0x82000000
console=ttyS2,115200n8
mpurate=500
vram=12M
dvimode=1024x768MR-16@60
defaultdisplay=dvi
mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw
mmcrootfstype=ext3 rootwait
nandroot=/dev/mtdblock4 rw
nandrootfstype=jffs2
mmcargs=setenv bootargs console=${console} mpurate=${mpurate} vram=${vram} omapfb.mode=dvi:${dvimode} omapfb.debug=y omapdss.def_disp=${defaultdisplay} root=
${mmcroot} rootfstype=${mmcrootfstype}
nandargs=setenv bootargs console=${console} mpurate=${mpurate} vram=${vram} omapfb.mode=dvi:${dvimode} omapfb.debug=y omapdss.def_disp=${defaultdisplay} root
=${nandroot} rootfstype=${nandrootfstype}
loadbootscript=fatload mmc 0 ${loadaddr} boot.scr
bootscript=echo Running bootscript from mmc ...; source ${loadaddr}
loaduimage=fatload mmc 0 ${loadaddr} uImage
mmcboot=echo Booting from mmc ...; run mmcargs; bootm ${loadaddr}
nandboot=echo Booting from nand ...; run nandargs; nand read ${loadaddr} 280000 400000; bootm ${loadaddr}
stdin=serial
stdout=serial
stderr=serial
dieid#=1eba00029ff80000016842c91601702f

Environment size: 1209/131068 bytes

- Josh


On Jul 30, 2012, at 8:51 PM, ext Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:31:10AM +0000, joshua.marinacci@nokia.com wrote:
>> Incidentally, I don't get all of the kernel boot messages when my gumstix 
>> boots.  It says 
>> 
>> Starting kernel ...
>> 
>> Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
>> 
>> Yocto (Built by Poky 7.0) 1.2+snapshot-20120730 overo ttyO2
>> 
>> overo login:
>> 
>> 
>> And then I'm at the login prompt.  I'm assuming there is some boot setting 
>> which controls this? All of the messages are showing up in 
>> /var/log/messages, however.
> 
> What's your "bootargs" variable in u-boot? Does it contain "quiet"? Does it 
> have the proper console settings?
> 
> -- 
> Denys
> 
> 
>> On Jul 30, 2012, at 12:42 PM, ext Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 07:10:23PM +0000, joshua.marinacci@nokia.com wrote:
>>>> Hmm. I don't see to have depmod installed.  Perhaps that is part of my 
>>>> problem. What package would I need to add to the minimal-core-image to get 
>>>> that?
>>> 
>>> Josh,
>>> 
>>> core-image-minimal uses busybox for tools like insmod and modprobe. The 
>>> default configuration for busybox does not have depmod enabled. As of 
>>> module-init-tools, they are being built, but not installed on the filesystem. 
>>> So, you can either modify busybox config to enable depmod, or add 
>>> module-init-tools-depmod package to your filesystem. The new way is to use 
>>> kmod, which is available in oe-core master, or meta-oe in denzil. But oe-core 
>>> master setup is broken for me at the moment, so I can't verify that kmod is 
>>> included. At least it's not listed in the image/task...
>>> 
>>> Denys
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:07 AM, ext Enrico wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:30 PM,  <joshua.marinacci@nokia.com> wrote:
>>>>>> This does work. When I boot the wpa stuff is included but I still don't have a network driver loaded.  If I include the built modules-3.2.19-r0-overo.tgz in my rootfs I can cd into the directory with all of the modules.  However insmod libertas.ko fails with
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>      insmod: can't insert 'libertas_tf_usb.ko': unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> and modprobe fails with
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>      modprobe: module libertas not found in modules.dep
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> So, what should I do to make sure the libertas module is compiled correctly, included in my kernel, and then actually used at runtime?
>>>>> 
>>>>> try with "depmod -a" (this must be done only once after you untar the
>>>>> modules) before modprobe libertas.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am not sure but i think it was "modprobe libertas_sdio", try that
>>>>> too. And of course you will need the libertas firmware
>>>>> (sd8686....bin).
>>>>> 
>>>>> Enrico
>>>> 
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> meta-ti mailing list
>>>> meta-ti@yoctoproject.org
>>>> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-ti
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> meta-ti mailing list
>> meta-ti@yoctoproject.org
>> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-ti
>> 

Re: Gumstix Wifi

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 03:55:08AM +0000, joshua.marinacci@nokia.com wrote:
> Well, If I hit a key to stop the boot then execute printenv: it shows me this:
> 
> et:   No ethernet found.
> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
> Overo # printenv
> bootcmd=if mmc init; then if run loadbootscript; then run bootscript; else if run loaduimage; then run mmcboot; else run nandboot; fi; fi; else run nandboot;
>  fi
> bootdelay=5
> baudrate=115200
> loadaddr=0x82000000
> console=ttyS2,115200n8

^^^^^^
Try with ttyO2 instead for kernels >2.6.36:

setenv console ttyO2,115200n8
saveenv

-- 
Denys

> mpurate=500
> vram=12M
> dvimode=1024x768MR-16@60
> defaultdisplay=dvi
> mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw
> mmcrootfstype=ext3 rootwait
> nandroot=/dev/mtdblock4 rw
> nandrootfstype=jffs2
> mmcargs=setenv bootargs console=${console} mpurate=${mpurate} vram=${vram} omapfb.mode=dvi:${dvimode} omapfb.debug=y omapdss.def_disp=${defaultdisplay} root=
> ${mmcroot} rootfstype=${mmcrootfstype}
> nandargs=setenv bootargs console=${console} mpurate=${mpurate} vram=${vram} omapfb.mode=dvi:${dvimode} omapfb.debug=y omapdss.def_disp=${defaultdisplay} root
> =${nandroot} rootfstype=${nandrootfstype}
> loadbootscript=fatload mmc 0 ${loadaddr} boot.scr
> bootscript=echo Running bootscript from mmc ...; source ${loadaddr}
> loaduimage=fatload mmc 0 ${loadaddr} uImage
> mmcboot=echo Booting from mmc ...; run mmcargs; bootm ${loadaddr}
> nandboot=echo Booting from nand ...; run nandargs; nand read ${loadaddr} 280000 400000; bootm ${loadaddr}
> stdin=serial
> stdout=serial
> stderr=serial
> dieid#=1eba00029ff80000016842c91601702f
> 
> Environment size: 1209/131068 bytes
> 
> - Josh
> 
> 
> On Jul 30, 2012, at 8:51 PM, ext Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:31:10AM +0000, joshua.marinacci@nokia.com wrote:
> >> Incidentally, I don't get all of the kernel boot messages when my gumstix 
> >> boots.  It says 
> >> 
> >> Starting kernel ...
> >> 
> >> Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
> >> 
> >> Yocto (Built by Poky 7.0) 1.2+snapshot-20120730 overo ttyO2
> >> 
> >> overo login:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> And then I'm at the login prompt.  I'm assuming there is some boot setting 
> >> which controls this? All of the messages are showing up in 
> >> /var/log/messages, however.
> > 
> > What's your "bootargs" variable in u-boot? Does it contain "quiet"? Does it 
> > have the proper console settings?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Denys
> > 
> > 
> >> On Jul 30, 2012, at 12:42 PM, ext Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 07:10:23PM +0000, joshua.marinacci@nokia.com wrote:
> >>>> Hmm. I don't see to have depmod installed.  Perhaps that is part of my 
> >>>> problem. What package would I need to add to the minimal-core-image to get 
> >>>> that?
> >>> 
> >>> Josh,
> >>> 
> >>> core-image-minimal uses busybox for tools like insmod and modprobe. The 
> >>> default configuration for busybox does not have depmod enabled. As of 
> >>> module-init-tools, they are being built, but not installed on the filesystem. 
> >>> So, you can either modify busybox config to enable depmod, or add 
> >>> module-init-tools-depmod package to your filesystem. The new way is to use 
> >>> kmod, which is available in oe-core master, or meta-oe in denzil. But oe-core 
> >>> master setup is broken for me at the moment, so I can't verify that kmod is 
> >>> included. At least it's not listed in the image/task...
> >>> 
> >>> Denys
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>> On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:07 AM, ext Enrico wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:30 PM,  <joshua.marinacci@nokia.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> This does work. When I boot the wpa stuff is included but I still don't have a network driver loaded.  If I include the built modules-3.2.19-r0-overo.tgz in my rootfs I can cd into the directory with all of the modules.  However insmod libertas.ko fails with
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>      insmod: can't insert 'libertas_tf_usb.ko': unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> and modprobe fails with
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>      modprobe: module libertas not found in modules.dep
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> So, what should I do to make sure the libertas module is compiled correctly, included in my kernel, and then actually used at runtime?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> try with "depmod -a" (this must be done only once after you untar the
> >>>>> modules) before modprobe libertas.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> I am not sure but i think it was "modprobe libertas_sdio", try that
> >>>>> too. And of course you will need the libertas firmware
> >>>>> (sd8686....bin).
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Enrico
> >>>> 
> >>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>> meta-ti mailing list
> >>>> meta-ti@yoctoproject.org
> >>>> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-ti
> >> 
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> meta-ti mailing list
> >> meta-ti@yoctoproject.org
> >> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-ti
> >> 
> 

Re: Gumstix Wifi

[joshua.marinacci]

Thank you everyone for your help. I finally got it working. After adding those extra recipes, doing the usual wifi config with /etc/network/interfaces and wpa-supplicant, and running depmod -a I was able get everything in place. Adding the magic firmware files extracted from Gumstix's pre-built distro was the last piece of the puzzle. When I next rebooted I was already on the network.  

So, my question now is "what's up with those sd8686* firmware files? If they are required then why aren't they a part of meta-gumstix?  Is it something special that can only be legally downloaded from Gumstix.com? 

thank you everyone.
	Josh


On Jul 30, 2012, at 5:31 PM, ext joshua.marinacci@nokia.com wrote:

> ah, that explains it then.
> 
> Okay, so I've made a bit more progress. I added some more packages to my build my appending this to my build/conf/local.conf
> 
> CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "wpa-supplicant"
> CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "wireless-tools"
> #CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "resolveconf"
> CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "openssl"
> CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "zeroconf"
> CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "modutils-initscripts"
> CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "update-modules"
> 
> 
> This gives me depmod and the rest.  Now I can manually load drivers and depmod -a succeeds.  However, I still can't activate the wlan0.   ifup wlan0 gives me
> 
> root@overo:~# ifup wlan0
> Could not read interface wlan0 flags: No such device
> WEXT: Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP
> wlan0: Failed to initialize driver interface
> 
> On a hunch I looked at /var/log/messages and it says near the end:
> 
> 
> Jul 30 23:17:03 overo user.info kernel: libertas_sdio: Libertas SDIO driver
> Jul 30 23:17:03 overo user.info kernel: libertas_sdio: Copyright Pierre Ossman
> Jul 30 23:17:03 overo user.err kernel: libertas_sdio: failed to find firmware (-2)
> 
> 
> You mentioned the firmware. Where do I get that?
> 
> 
> Incidentally, I don't get all of the kernel boot messages when my gumstix boots.  It says 
> 
> Starting kernel ...
> 
> Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
> 
> Yocto (Built by Poky 7.0) 1.2+snapshot-20120730 overo ttyO2
> 
> overo login:
> 
> 
> And then I'm at the login prompt.  I'm assuming there is some boot setting which controls this? All of the messages are showing up in /var/log/messages, however.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Josh
> 
> 
> On Jul 30, 2012, at 12:42 PM, ext Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 07:10:23PM +0000, joshua.marinacci@nokia.com wrote:
>>> Hmm. I don't see to have depmod installed.  Perhaps that is part of my 
>>> problem. What package would I need to add to the minimal-core-image to get 
>>> that?
>> 
>> Josh,
>> 
>> core-image-minimal uses busybox for tools like insmod and modprobe. The 
>> default configuration for busybox does not have depmod enabled. As of 
>> module-init-tools, they are being built, but not installed on the filesystem. 
>> So, you can either modify busybox config to enable depmod, or add 
>> module-init-tools-depmod package to your filesystem. The new way is to use 
>> kmod, which is available in oe-core master, or meta-oe in denzil. But oe-core 
>> master setup is broken for me at the moment, so I can't verify that kmod is 
>> included. At least it's not listed in the image/task...
>> 
>> Denys
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:07 AM, ext Enrico wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:30 PM,  <joshua.marinacci@nokia.com> wrote:
>>>>> This does work. When I boot the wpa stuff is included but I still don't have a network driver loaded.  If I include the built modules-3.2.19-r0-overo.tgz in my rootfs I can cd into the directory with all of the modules.  However insmod libertas.ko fails with
>>>>> 
>>>>>      insmod: can't insert 'libertas_tf_usb.ko': unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter
>>>>> 
>>>>> and modprobe fails with
>>>>> 
>>>>>      modprobe: module libertas not found in modules.dep
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> So, what should I do to make sure the libertas module is compiled correctly, included in my kernel, and then actually used at runtime?
>>>> 
>>>> try with "depmod -a" (this must be done only once after you untar the
>>>> modules) before modprobe libertas.
>>>> 
>>>> I am not sure but i think it was "modprobe libertas_sdio", try that
>>>> too. And of course you will need the libertas firmware
>>>> (sd8686....bin).
>>>> 
>>>> Enrico
>>> 
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Re: Gumstix Wifi

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 04:00:56AM +0000, joshua.marinacci@nokia.com wrote:
> Thank you everyone for your help. I finally got it working. After adding 
> those extra recipes, doing the usual wifi config with 
> /etc/network/interfaces and wpa-supplicant, and running depmod -a I was able 
> get everything in place. Adding the magic firmware files extracted from 
> Gumstix's pre-built distro was the last piece of the puzzle. When I next 
> rebooted I was already on the network.  
> 
> So, my question now is "what's up with those sd8686* firmware files? If they 
> are required then why aren't they a part of meta-gumstix?  Is it something 
> special that can only be legally downloaded from Gumstix.com? 

Josh,

Looks like you need this:
CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "linux-firmware-sd8686"

From here:
http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb#n37

More pointers:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/libertas
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git;a=tree;f=libertas;hb=HEAD

-- 
Denys


> On Jul 30, 2012, at 5:31 PM, ext joshua.marinacci@nokia.com wrote:
> 
> > ah, that explains it then.
> > 
> > Okay, so I've made a bit more progress. I added some more packages to my build my appending this to my build/conf/local.conf
> > 
> > CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "wpa-supplicant"
> > CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "wireless-tools"
> > #CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "resolveconf"
> > CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "openssl"
> > CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "zeroconf"
> > CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "modutils-initscripts"
> > CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "update-modules"
> > 
> > 
> > This gives me depmod and the rest.  Now I can manually load drivers and depmod -a succeeds.  However, I still can't activate the wlan0.   ifup wlan0 gives me
> > 
> > root@overo:~# ifup wlan0
> > Could not read interface wlan0 flags: No such device
> > WEXT: Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP
> > wlan0: Failed to initialize driver interface
> > 
> > On a hunch I looked at /var/log/messages and it says near the end:
> > 
> > 
> > Jul 30 23:17:03 overo user.info kernel: libertas_sdio: Libertas SDIO driver
> > Jul 30 23:17:03 overo user.info kernel: libertas_sdio: Copyright Pierre Ossman
> > Jul 30 23:17:03 overo user.err kernel: libertas_sdio: failed to find firmware (-2)
> > 
> > 
> > You mentioned the firmware. Where do I get that?
> > 
> > 
> > Incidentally, I don't get all of the kernel boot messages when my gumstix boots.  It says 
> > 
> > Starting kernel ...
> > 
> > Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
> > 
> > Yocto (Built by Poky 7.0) 1.2+snapshot-20120730 overo ttyO2
> > 
> > overo login:
> > 
> > 
> > And then I'm at the login prompt.  I'm assuming there is some boot setting which controls this? All of the messages are showing up in /var/log/messages, however.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Josh
> > 
> > 
> > On Jul 30, 2012, at 12:42 PM, ext Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > 
> >> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 07:10:23PM +0000, joshua.marinacci@nokia.com wrote:
> >>> Hmm. I don't see to have depmod installed.  Perhaps that is part of my 
> >>> problem. What package would I need to add to the minimal-core-image to get 
> >>> that?
> >> 
> >> Josh,
> >> 
> >> core-image-minimal uses busybox for tools like insmod and modprobe. The 
> >> default configuration for busybox does not have depmod enabled. As of 
> >> module-init-tools, they are being built, but not installed on the filesystem. 
> >> So, you can either modify busybox config to enable depmod, or add 
> >> module-init-tools-depmod package to your filesystem. The new way is to use 
> >> kmod, which is available in oe-core master, or meta-oe in denzil. But oe-core 
> >> master setup is broken for me at the moment, so I can't verify that kmod is 
> >> included. At least it's not listed in the image/task...
> >> 
> >> Denys
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:07 AM, ext Enrico wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:30 PM,  <joshua.marinacci@nokia.com> wrote:
> >>>>> This does work. When I boot the wpa stuff is included but I still don't have a network driver loaded.  If I include the built modules-3.2.19-r0-overo.tgz in my rootfs I can cd into the directory with all of the modules.  However insmod libertas.ko fails with
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>      insmod: can't insert 'libertas_tf_usb.ko': unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> and modprobe fails with
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>      modprobe: module libertas not found in modules.dep
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> So, what should I do to make sure the libertas module is compiled correctly, included in my kernel, and then actually used at runtime?
> >>>> 
> >>>> try with "depmod -a" (this must be done only once after you untar the
> >>>> modules) before modprobe libertas.
> >>>> 
> >>>> I am not sure but i think it was "modprobe libertas_sdio", try that
> >>>> too. And of course you will need the libertas firmware
> >>>> (sd8686....bin).
> >>>> 
> >>>> Enrico
> >>> 
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> >>> meta-ti@yoctoproject.org
> >>> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-ti
> > 
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Re: Gumstix Wifi

[Philip Balister]

On 07/28/2012 03:30 PM, joshua.marinacci@nokia.com wrote:
> Hi guys. After becoming very frustrated with Gumstix' prefab images I came to the  Yocto presentation at OSCON a week ago and was very impressed.  I've started building a distro for my Gumstix Overo but have ran into a few roadblocks that I'm hoping you can help with.

Remember the gumstix support here is done by community members, not 
gumstix engineering. Please remind the gumstix people on the gumstix 
list that it would be great if they could contribute some time to 
testing and fixing these problems :)

Philip

>
> First, I started with the latest Yocto, meta-gumstix and meta-ti from git and I can successfully compile and boot core-image-minimal.  Of course that doesn't have networking.
>
> Next, I tried running Hob to add networking packages.  Hob does not seem to work with meta-ti.  I can launch but when I add the meta-ti layer and choose a machine it fails with "ExpansionError during parsing %s:%s".  Of course it is not helpful in providing which file the parsing error was in. :)
>
> Next, I tried simply adding  wpa_supplicant to the image by adding this line to my local.conf and compiling from the command line.
>
> CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "wpa-supplicant"
>
>
> This does work. When I boot the wpa stuff is included but I still don't have a network driver loaded.  If I include the built modules-3.2.19-r0-overo.tgz in my rootfs I can cd into the directory with all of the modules.  However insmod libertas.ko fails with
>
> 	insmod: can't insert 'libertas_tf_usb.ko': unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter
>
> and modprobe fails with
>
> 	modprobe: module libertas not found in modules.dep
>
>
> So, what should I do to make sure the libertas module is compiled correctly, included in my kernel, and then actually used at runtime?
>
> Thank you all for your help. I'm very excited about the Yocto project.
>
> - Josh
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