[meta-xilinx] wifi chipset adapter

[Mike Looijmans]

On 03-05-17 09:27, Sébastien bouché 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.

When the driver starts, it will attempt to load firmware into the device. 
It'll complain on the kernel output and tell you what it is looking for.

For OpenEmbedded builds, adding some of these packages to your machine .conf 
or some other RDEPENDS or IMAGE_INSTALL will provide the required firmware 
files on the rootfs:

linux-firmware-rtl8192ce
linux-firmware-rtl8192cu
linux-firmware-rtl8192su
linux-firmware-ralink

>
> Thanks.
>
>
> -- Sébastien
>
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:14 AM, Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans at topic.nl
> <mailto: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,
>
>     Mike Looijmans
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Kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
System Expert

TOPIC Products
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