[meta-ti] Gumstix Wifi

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:31:10AM +0000, joshua.marinacci at 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 at 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 at 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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