[meta-xilinx] wifi chipset adapter

[Nathan Rossi]

On 3 May 2017 at 17:27, Sébastien bouché <sebastien.bouche at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Thanks for your answer. First I did enable the driver in the kernel. I could
> see the driver was loaded in the boot traces.
> But I could not get it working. I need to redo it to provide some log.
>
> However, It was the only thing I've done in my layer (menuconfig). could you
> please give some detail regarding "include the firmware in the rootfs
> (linux-firmware)." I'm not sure I understand.

Mike is referring to the linux-firmware packages, in this case you are
likely after "linux-firmware-rtl8192cu". This comes from the
linux-firmware recipe
(http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb).

Regards,
Nathan

>
> Thanks.
>
>
> -- Sébastien
>
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:14 AM, Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans at topic.nl>
> wrote:
>>
>> rtl8192cu works okay with the Zynq. Actually the Zynq has nothing to do
>> with that.
>>
>> You probably need to enable the driver in the kernel (menuconfig) and
>> include the firmware in the rootfs (linux-firmware).
>>
>>
>> On 02-05-17 22:22, Sébastien bouché wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a wifi adapter reference (nanon usb dongle) that would
>>> easily
>>> be supported by a Zynq.
>>> I do have an usb dongle base on realtek rtl8192cu chipset. I can't get it
>>> working using the kernel version, same thing using 2 different
>>> alternatives
>>> found on github.
>>>
>>> Maybe the official Raspberry pi wifi dongle based on BCM43143?
>>>
>>> Many thanks.
>>>
>>> -- Sébastien
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
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