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Re: Wifi does not work on overo fire

by stuart68 :: Rate this Message:

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Hi,

This is not the problem or even a problem, it is some unsupported features that report themselves in a very bad way. Please ignore these two failures, they really are not failures.

Also, to get wifi working search through this forum to find your answer.

You will need to ensure that /etc/modules has "smsc911x" at the end of it. If it doesn't use the cat command to add it.

Then you will have to look into /etc/network/interfaces files to ensure that wifi will work as you require. Getting wpa to work is well documented and relatively easy to do. You'll need to create /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and cut'n'paste the result of running wpa_passphrase "your ssid" "your password".

Then in /etc/network/interfaces add

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
   pre-up wpa_supplicant -Dext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B

Hope this helps. If not please have a search there is tons of help in the forum.

Stuart
waterbunny wrote:
Is there any reason why wifi on overo fire does not work with the pre-built image v.92? (http://www.gumstix.net/overo-gm-images/)

When booting I get the following:
lib80211: common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers
libertas_sdio: Libertas SDIO driver
libertas_sdio: Copyright Pierre Ossman
libertas_sdio mmc1:0001:1: firmware: requesting sd8686_helper.bin
libertas_sdio mmc1:0001:1: firmware: requesting sd8686.bin
libertas: 00:19:88:10:fe:cf, fw 9.70.3p24, cap 0x00000303
eth0 (libertas_sdio): not using net_device_ops yet

libertas: PREP_CMD: command 0x00a3 failed: 2
libertas: PREP_CMD: command 0x00a3 failed: 2

libertas: eth0: Marvell WLAN 802.11 adapter

How to repair that and where is the problem? Is the gumstix faulty or what;)?

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