Wifi problem Android AOSP

[Chris Bainbridge]

Hello, 

I've been trying to build AOSP master for the last few days. It builds and boots fine, but when I enable wifi the system seems to get stuck in some loop where it will keep closing the foreground app and returning to the Home screen. This makes it more or less impossible to get any further (connect to a protected network) because any attempt to open the network settings will result in the network settings app being closed before there is time to enter the network key.

logcat shows repeats of:

D/wpa_supplicant(  605): nl80211: Event message available 

D/wpa_supplicant(  605): nl80211: New scan results available 

D/wpa_supplicant(  605): nl80211: Received scan results (5 BSSes) 

D/wpa_supplicant(  605): nl80211: Survey data missing 

D/wpa_supplicant(  605): Add randomness: count=1 entropy=0 

D/wpa_supplicant(  605): Add randomness: count=2 entropy=1 

D/wpa_supplicant(  605): Add randomness: count=3 entropy=2 

D/wpa_supplicant(  605): Add randomness: count=4 entropy=3 

D/wpa_supplicant(  605): Add randomness: count=5 entropy=4 

D/wpa_supplicant(  605): Calling set grouple idle_timeout from 

notif_disconnected 

D/wpa_supplicant(  605): RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x1003 ([UP]) 

D/wpa_supplicant(  605): RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'wlan0' added 

I/ActivityManager(  267): START {act=android.intent.action.MAIN 

cat=[android.intent.category.HOME] flg=0x10200000 

cmp=com.android.launcher/com.android.launcher2.Launcher u=0} from pid 

267 

I previously posted about this at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/android-building/iyGHyRvkAOg but have received no reponse.

I assume this is only a problem with wifi on the Pandaboard, because if it were on all platforms then surely other people would've noticed it?

[Chris Bainbridge]

A solution/workaround for this has been posted to the android-building thread.

On 24 Aug 2012 12:09, "Johannes Grad" <johann...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have seen that also, and tried to debug it for a while but gave up. On the web I found an AOSP eng binary build from last December that did not have the problem. I tried to check out the source from December but that is very hard because none of the AOSP tags work for Pandaboard. Haven't had time since then to take another look.