help with Wifi

[beckett]

Hi,

I'm trying to get the WiFi working on my PandaBoard. I load the various modules required and I have the necessary formware in the required location howver I never see a message in the dmesg indicating that the firmware has loaded. At what point is the firmware actually loaded. Does it happen on insmoding the module or is it only when the driver is opened, if it is only when the driver is loaded then what actually opens the driver. If I run iwconfig it tells me there are no 'wireless extensions'. I am missing some step but I cannot figure out what it is. I set debug_level=255 when I load the driver but that does not provide any additional information. Any help appreciated.

 

[Xavier Boudet]

Can you clarify which image/setup are you using?
12.04 ? pandroid?

Regards, Xavier Boudet

On 10/29/2012 08:42 PM, beckett wrote:

[beckett]

Hi,

Thank you for your response. I am using an image I built myself using buildroot. I have built the kernel modules and am loading them by hand with insmod. What I am trying to understand is the process for loading the modules in 12.04 so that I can emulate it. I don't see a modules.conf or equivalent. Do you happen to know the sequence, do they have to be loaded at a certain point or should I be able to load them after boot up, my image is using udev and again I'm not quite sure what sequence of events will give me a wlan0 interface. Thanks again for replying.

 

regards