[yocto] [meta-chip] Wifi driver on CHIP boards?

[Andrei Gherzan]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 11:44 PM, Drew Moseley <drew.moseley at northern.tech>
wrote:

> Has anyone managed to use the onboard WIFI for the CHIP boards in the
> current meta-chip repo?  I added the kernel-module-r8723bs and rtl8723bs
> packages to my build and setup a wpa_supplicant.conf that works on other
> boards but I get error messages about power save. A few google searches
> suggested some power save changes but nothing I tried worked.
>
> root at chip:~# ifup wlan0
> Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
> [  172.875000] rtl8723bs: accquire FW from file:rtlwifi/rtl8723bs_nic.bin
> [  174.225000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
> [  174.235000] RTL8723BS: set bssid:00:00:00:00:00:00
> ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not permitted
> udhcpc (v1.24.1) started
> Sending discover...
> [  175.855000] RTL8723BS: nolinked power save enter
> Sending discover...
> Sending discover...
> No lease, forking to background
> root at chip:~# [  184.580000] RTL8723BS: nolinked power save leave
> [  184.800000] RTL8723BS: set bssid:20:c9:d0:18:7a:95
> [  184.810000] RTL8723BS: set ssid [caribbean] fw_state = 0x00000088
> [  194.605000] RTL8723BS: nolinked power save enter
> [  195.850000] RTL8723BS: nolinked power save leave
> [  196.060000] RTL8723BS: set bssid:00:00:00:00:00:00
>
>
We use the same packages in resinos to add wifi support and everything
seems sane. However we only tested with NM not directly with wpa.

ref: https://github.com/resin-os/resin-chip/pull/23

Andrei
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