missing piece for starting device on embedded system

missing piece for starting device on embedded system

[Jon Smirl]

I must be missing a piece of the necessary environment to get wireless
started...
This is an embedded environment that has not had wireless previously.

When I plug my rt73 adapter in:

usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 6
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using ppc-of-ohci and address 7
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
phy3 -> rt73usb_validate_eeprom: EEPROM recovery - NIC: 0xffef
phy3 -> rt73usb_validate_eeprom: EEPROM recovery - Led: 0xe000
phy3 -> rt73usb_validate_eeprom: EEPROM recovery - RSSI OFFSET A: 0x0000
phy3 -> rt2x00_set_chip: Info - Chipset detected - rt: 1300, rf: 0002,
rev: 0002573a.
phy3: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'

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UDEV  [1247788838.265890] add      /class/net/wmaster0 (net)
UDEV_LOG=3
ACTION=add
DEVPATH=/class/net/wmaster0
SUBSYSTEM=net
INTERFACE=wmaster0
IFINDEX=9
SEQNUM=594

UDEV  [1247788838.268243] add      /class/net/wlan0 (net)
UDEV_LOG=3
ACTION=add
DEVPATH=/class/net/wlan0
SUBSYSTEM=net
INTERFACE=wlan0
IFINDEX=10
SEQNUM=595
MATCHADDR=00:18:f3:2f:0a:de
MATCHIFTYPE=1
COMMENT=USB device 0x:0x (rt73usb)

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But I never get a request_firmware event. This seems to be because the
adapter 's start() function is never called.

I'm missing some piece of the system - a kernel module or some part of
user space.
Can someone give me a clue on how to debug this?

I though it was missing crda but adding that didn't fix it.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com

Re: missing piece for starting device on embedded system

[Jon Smirl]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Jon Smirl<jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> I must be missing a piece of the necessary environment to get wireless
> started...
> This is an embedded environment that has not had wireless previously.

Duh.. the device does not show in ifconfig until I run "ifconfig wlan0 up".


-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com

Re: missing piece for starting device on embedded system

[Kalle Valo]

Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Jon Smirl<jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I must be missing a piece of the necessary environment to get wireless
>> started...
>> This is an embedded environment that has not had wireless previously.
>
> Duh.. the device does not show in ifconfig until I run "ifconfig wlan0 up".

'ifconfig -a' shows all interfaces, even the ones which are down.

-- 
Kalle Valo