problem while enabling Wi-Fi for android OS

[Ask]

Hi all,

I want to enable wifi on BB using DLink DWA-110 USB adaper. To
detect this adpter on the board I had loaded rt73 driver in android
kernel and rebuilt the kernel.

Thus, this USB adpater got detected and netcfg shows the
configuration wlan0.

Now I had used command iwconfig wlan0 essid "ready" to connect to the
AP ready.

But after that iwconfig gives following output,

# iwconfig
wlan0
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version
22
of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version
16.
Some things may be
broken...

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg
ESSID:"ready"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412GHz Access Point:
00:00:00:00:00:00
Tx-Power=0
dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352
B
Encryption
key:off
Power Management:off

Here BB is getting the MAC address of AP, and thus not connected...

Can anyone please tell me where I am going wrong??

Thanks,
Asif

[Ask]

I had selected the rt2500,rt2570,rt73 drivers from "make menuconfig"
and rebuilt the kernel. By then, when booted on the board, board
detects the adpapter with wlan0 interface.

But when I tried to "up" the WiFI using command " ifconfig wlan0
up", it gives following error,

# ifconfig wlan0
up
rt73usb 1-2:1.0: firmware: requesting
rt73.bin
init: untracked pid 859
exited
phy0 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request
Firmware.
error: SIOCSIFFLAGS (No such file or directory)

From google arround, I found that it is related to permission problem
but could not found the solution. Can anyone please tell the issue. I
will be really grateful.

Waiting for reply..
Asif

[Ahmed Ammar]

On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 21:53 -0800, Ask wrote:
> I had selected the rt2500,rt2570,rt73 drivers from "make menuconfig"
> and rebuilt the kernel. By then, when booted on the board, board
> detects the adpapter with wlan0 interface.
>
> But when I tried to "up" the WiFI using command " ifconfig wlan0
> up", it gives following error,
>
> # ifconfig wlan0
> up
> rt73usb 1-2:1.0: firmware: requesting
> rt73.bin
> init: untracked pid 859
> exited
> phy0 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request
> Firmware.
> error: SIOCSIFFLAGS (No such file or directory)

>From my experience with the rt drivers you still need to add a firmware
blob to /lib/firmware. I haven't used them in a while so I can't give
more details but search on google for it.

A.

[Ask]

I downloaded the rt73.bin file from net and kept under FS : /system/
lib/firmware/rt73.bin

and then given the command "ifconfig wlan0 up"...but no success, same
error..

rt73usb 1-2:1.0: firmware: requesting
rt73.bin

init: untracked pid 862

exited
phy0 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request
Firmware.
error: SIOCSIFFLAGS (No such file or directory)

Please help..
Asif

[Paul Menzel]

[Please do not top post.]

Am Mittwoch, den 06.01.2010, 03:19 -0800 schrieb Ask:
> I downloaded the rt73.bin file from net and kept under FS : /system/
> lib/firmware/rt73.bin
>
> and then given the command "ifconfig wlan0 up"...but no success, same
> error..
>
> rt73usb 1-2:1.0: firmware: requesting rt73.bin
> init: untracked pid 862
> exited
> phy0 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.
> error: SIOCSIFFLAGS (No such file or directory)
>
> Please help..

Does the adapter work on a different system?

Thanks,

Paul

[Ask]

Yes it is working on different system..

I kept rt73.bin in /etc/firware dir and it got detected and netcfg is
showing wlan0 "up" now.

then, iwconfig wlan0 essid "ready" also worked and got MAC address of
AP.

But problem occurs when I tried to get IP from DHCP using dhcpcd
command,

following error arises,

# dhcpcd -d wlan0
wlan0: open `/data/misc/dhcp/dhcpcd-wlan0.pid': No such file or
directory

Thanks,
Asif

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[Ask]

tried to give udhcpc but gives following error,

# udhcpc wlan0
udhcpc: SIOCGIFINDEX: No such device

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/1/6 Ask <asif...@gmail.com>:

> Yes it is working on different system..
>
> I kept rt73.bin in /etc/firware dir and it got detected and netcfg is
> showing wlan0 "up" now.

location is important. different systems have different locations on
where to store their firmware

>
> then, iwconfig wlan0 essid "ready" also worked and got MAC address of
> AP.
>
> But problem occurs when I tried to get IP from DHCP using dhcpcd
> command,
>
> following error arises,
>
> # dhcpcd -d wlan0
> wlan0: open `/data/misc/dhcp/dhcpcd-wlan0.pid': No such file or
> directory
>

Obviously this error is given because this file/dir does not exist.
Either create it or tell dhcpd to put its pid file elsewhere

Frans

>
> Thanks,
> Asif
>
> On Jan 6, 4:38 pm, Paul Menzel <pm.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> [Please do not top post.]
>>
>> Am Mittwoch, den 06.01.2010, 03:19 -0800 schrieb Ask:
>>
>> > I downloaded the rt73.bin file from net and kept under FS : /system/
>> > lib/firmware/rt73.bin
>>
>> > and then given the command "ifconfig wlan0 up"...but no success, same
>> > error..
>>
>> > rt73usb 1-2:1.0: firmware: requesting rt73.bin
>> > init: untracked pid 862
>> > exited
>> > phy0 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.
>> > error: SIOCSIFFLAGS (No such file or directory)
>>
>> > Please help..
>>
>> Does the adapter work on a different system?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Paul
>>
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[Paul Menzel]

Am Mittwoch, den 06.01.2010, 04:28 -0800 schrieb Ask:
> Yes it is working on different system..

Just for clarity. Did this system run Android?

Thanks,

Paul

[Ask]

> Just for clarity. Did this system run Android?

No it is local desktop (windows XP)

[sanju More]

Hi, Is Angstrom support Java? What is the Java Version? Regards, Sanjeev

[Ask]

> Is Angstrom support Java? What is the Java Version?
>

Please create a separate post for the topics that are not at all
relavant....

Frans :

>Obviously this error is given because this file/dir does not exist.
>Either create it or tell dhcpd to put its pid file elsewhere

can u please elaborate on how to use dhcpd for pid??

Thanks,
Asif

[Paul Menzel]

Am Mittwoch, den 06.01.2010, 21:51 -0800 schrieb Ask:
> > Just for clarity. Did this system run Android?
>
> No it is local desktop (windows XP)

Maybe you should try it with a GNU/Linux mainstream distribution first.

If it works there, I would guess it is an Android problem and more
people could help you, if you ask this on an Android list.

Sorry, to not be able to help you further.

[Ask]

I tried with connectig the ssid "Simple", which is not connected to
dhcp server.

Si I had assigned a static ip using ifconfig and works fine...

When I had assigned the static ip to "wmaster" interface, then after
it is not connecting again.....

I had restarted the board.. but not success..

Thanks,
Asif

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Hi,

I am trying to do the same Thing so that i can use my car multimedia with wifi or wlan. but  I couldn´t succeed.

If you do succeed, could you send me the file for the tablet.

thanks very much.

[Keith Conger]

Hi All,

I have a modified version of Andrew's bbbandroid with support for Wifi, Bluetooth, Serial GPS along with some other changes.  Its available at http://development.thecongers.org/home/bbbandroid-bluez

You may need to adjust the kernel modules loaded and if needed add firmware to the build.

Keith