[meta-ti] Gumstix Wifi

[joshua.marinacci at nokia.com]

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