To enable wifi on pandaboard

[mayur priyan]

Hi,
   This may be very silly.Yet i am new to Pandaboard.So asking over here. I am using Pandaboard A3.I have the SD card with two partitions.One for boot and other for rootfs.I wanted to enable the wifi on the board.So i wanted to know the kernel configurations that are to be enabled.Please provide me with the information.
  
    Thanks in advance

mayur

[pandu mallireddy]

Hi Mayur,

Please find the details at:

http://omappedia.org/wiki/MAC802.11_based_Wilink#To_enable_WLAN_on_the_Panda_Board_Linux_Kernel

Regards,

Pandu.

[mayur priyan]

Hi,
I could not clone form git clone git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/
kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git. It says, no such file or
directory.
Please let me know where can i get it from?
BTW, what is the importance of those binaries.

regards
mayru

On May 6, 9:38 pm, pandu mallireddy <pandu.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mayur,
>

> Please find the details at:http://omappedia.org/wiki/MAC802.11_based_Wilink#To_enable_WLAN_on_th...
>
> Regards,
> Pandu.

[mayur priyan]

Hi,
Thanks for the reply.I have compiled the kernel
But i am not able to find the binaries in the ti-connectivity.When i
run http://omappedia.org/wiki/MAC802.11_based_Wilink#To_enable_WLAN_on_th...
I get the following error. fatal: Could not switch to 'git.kernel.org/
pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2': No such file or directory.

Please let me know the currently active link where i can get those
binaries from.
I also wanted to know the importance of those binaries..

Thanks in advance
mayur

On May 6, 9:38 pm, pandu mallireddy <pandu.li...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mayur,
>
> Please find the details at:http://omappedia.org/wiki/MAC802.11_based_Wilink#To_enable_WLAN_on_th...
>
> Regards,
> Pandu.

[pandu mallireddy]

Hi Mayur,

Please try with "git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git"
It has the firmware files required for ti-connectivity chips.
Copy the folder "ti-connectivity" including the contents to /lib/firmware/ folder of the filesystem.

Regards,
Pandu.

[yoonka]

Which OS are you installing? Ubuntu, Android? 

If Ubuntu, if you follow this tutorial (shameless) you simply need to set up using WLAN instead of ETH (as I direct). Note you'll need a WEP base station as the image install only provides for that form of encryption. You can add WPA2 or whatever by following the tutorial recommended above. 

Short answer: Kernel / install image recommended in my tutorial supports WLAN out of the box. 

Hope this helps. 

J

[Kelvin Le]

I have just finished making a series of video tutorial on setting up a
WIFI network with WPA security on ubuntu server. Maybe this will
help for those that are interested:

http://www.omappedia.com/wiki/PandaBoard_Training#How_to_setup_WIFI_with_WPA-PSK_Security_on_Ubuntu_Server_12.04

Youtube video walkthrough:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjcthIVHWTM&feature=youtu.be


Kelvin