[yocto] adding all the pieces of WiFi to core-image-minimal
James Abernathy
jfabernathy at outlook.com
Mon Jan 26 11:31:49 PST 2015
I get a clean build when I add: CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += " packagegroup-base-wifi”
However, I have no wireless drivers. I must have to add something to add the drivers and firmware to the kernel. Not sure what though.
Jim A
> On Jan 26, 2015, at 11:09 AM, James Abernathy <jfabernathy at outlook.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 26, 2015, at 10:52 AM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2015-01-26 08:26, James Abernathy wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Jan 26, 2015, at 8:49 AM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com <mailto:gary at mlbassoc.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2015-01-26 06:29, James Abernathy wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jan 23, 2015, at 12:37 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com <mailto:gary at mlbassoc.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2015-01-23 10:24, Jim Abernathy wrote:
>>>>>>> I'm starting a project mostly for self-education. I have already done the project using Ubuntu Server 14.04 using a Intel NUC and a Pandaboard as targets. Now I want to see how
>>>>>>> easy it is to move it to Yocto.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Starting with the NUC, I can boot Dizzy 1.7.1 core-image-minimal and core-image-sato, both built with bitbake and not the prebuilt images. However, core-image-minimal doesn't have
>>>>>>> WiFi and core-image-sato does, but I don't need all the GUI stuff. It's a headless application.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So what is recommended; eliminating the GUI from sato or adding wifi and wpa-supplicant, etc to minimal?? Also any pointers to how to do the adding/subtracting would be most
>>>>>>> helpful.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Once this is working all I have to do is put apache-tomcat, and openjdk-7-jre, then my application.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We use just iw & wpa-supplicant and set up the configuration
>>>>>> files manually (e.g. the wpa-supplicant configurations).
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you help with a little more details. What I envision is adding an append statement of some kind to local.conf to load in the wireless related files to core-image-minimal,
>>>>> same with openjdk-7-jre and tomcat7, but my first efforts have generated some unintelligible error for me. So that’s why I’m looking for direction on where to start with this.
>>>>
>>>> What was the error you got? I'll bet it was for 'iw' which
>>>> is a package from meta-oe, so you'll need to add that layer
>>>>
>>>> Once you've added the meta-oe layer, you should be able to
>>>> put this line in your local.conf:
>>>> CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += " iw wpa-supplicant”
>>>>
>>> Okay, what I don’t get is the fact that without any additional layers, bitbake core-image-sato builds all the WiFi features I need. bitbake core-image-minimal does not. So I’m
>>> thinking that there is some CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL statement that can just add what is needed without extra layers.
>>>
>>> I guess it just doesn’t make sense to me right now.
>>
>> Try using
>> CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += " packagegroup-base-wifi"
>> which will bring in 'wireless-tools' and 'wpa-supplicant'.
>>
>> I prefer 'iw' to 'wireless-tools' as it is newer and [IMO]
>> simpler to use.
>>
> Thanks, I found that I can clean build with just the wpa-supplicant added and I’m hoping that will bring in the wifi drivers. If it does, all I want to do is edit the /etc/interfaces file with the Static IP of the wlan0, the static IP of the eth0 and the wpa-xxx for the WKPA2_PSK information.
>
> Do I really need the tools? I don’t need CLI commands to change any network parameters later.
>
> Jim A
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