[yocto] adding all the pieces of WiFi to core-image-minimal

[Gary Thomas]

On 2015-01-23 10:24, Jim Abernathy wrote:
> I'm starting a project mostly for self-education.  I have already done the project using Ubuntu Server 14.04 using a Intel NUC and a Pandaboard as targets.  Now I want to see how
> easy it is to move it to Yocto.
>
> Starting with the NUC, I can boot Dizzy 1.7.1 core-image-minimal and core-image-sato, both built with bitbake and not the prebuilt images. However, core-image-minimal doesn't have
> WiFi and core-image-sato does, but I don't need all the GUI stuff.  It's a headless application.
>
> So what is recommended; eliminating the GUI from sato or adding wifi and wpa-supplicant, etc to minimal??  Also any pointers to how to do the adding/subtracting would be most helpful.
>
> Once this is working all I have to do is put apache-tomcat, and openjdk-7-jre, then my application.

We use just iw & wpa-supplicant and set up the configuration
files manually (e.g. the wpa-supplicant configurations).

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