[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi] WiFi

Daniel. danielhilst at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 08:01:19 PDT 2016


I saw your *name* in this list and you do nice posts, but had *I* never

2016-09-15 11:59 GMT-03:00 Daniel. <danielhilst at gmail.com>:
> 2016-09-15 10:56 GMT-03:00 Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com>:
>> On 2016-09-15 15:32, Daniel. wrote:
>>>
>>> Garry, if you are facing problems posting and detailed description of
>>> your problem and by detailed I mean "I do X expecting Y but got Z"
>>> being Z errors, logs, outputs etc would help a lot people to help you.
>>
>>
>> A reasonable observation (although if you look through the records for
>> the past ~10 years, you can see that I know how to pose relevant questions!)
>> I'm sure that the answer will be obvious to anyone who has set up a
>> RaspberryPi-3.
> Yeah, I saw your in this list and you do nice posts, but had never
> touched a RPI3. Other people
> may be facing the same problem that you in another platform. Did you see this:
> https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=122067 thread? The last
> post is about someone facing "aparently" the same problem that you in
> RPI3 and RPI2B+. Also
> there is an open on https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1149 ...
>
> Did you have crda and wireless-regdb installed!?
>
> Regards,
>>
>> Anyway, for completeness, when my Rpi-3 board boots, I get a ton of these
>> messages from the kernel:
>> [    8.737220] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
>>
>> Also, whenever I try to do anything with the WiFi device, I get this error:
>>   root at raspberrypi3:~# iw dev wlan0 scan
>>   command failed: Network is down (-100)
>>
>> Here are the modules loaded into the kernel:
>>   root at raspberrypi3:~# lsmod
>>     Not tainted
>>   ipv6 343600 26 [permanent], Live 0x7f1f6000
>>   joydev 9044 0 - Live 0x7f1f0000
>>   evdev 10254 3 - Live 0x7f1e2000
>>   brcmfmac 179873 0 - Live 0x7f16c000
>>   brcmutil 5693 1 brcmfmac, Live 0x7f160000
>>   cfg80211 416259 1 brcmfmac, Live 0x7f03a000
>>   rfkill 16941 1 cfg80211, Live 0x7f026000
>>   bcm2835_rng 1763 0 - Live 0x7f022000
>>   bcm2835_gpiomem 2852 0 - Live 0x7f01e000
>>   uio_pdrv_genirq 2944 0 - Live 0x7f012000
>>   uio 8032 1 uio_pdrv_genirq, Live 0x7f000000
>>
>> Perhaps I'm missing some firmware or driver for this WiFi device?  Note: I
>> had
>> this working fine on my RaspberryPi-2 with an external [USB] dongle.
>>
>>
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