[Freedombox-discuss] WiFi

[Rick C. Hodgin]

My Dreamplug will arrive next week.  Looking forward to it!  Keep up the 
good work! :-)

Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin


On 06/16/2012 12:06 PM, James Valleroy wrote:
> So far I have gotten the interface to show up, and broadcast an SSID 
> in AP mode. I am not able to connect to it yet though. Here's what I did:
>
> 1. Start with a Dreamplug file system built with freedom-maker.
>
> 2. Check the interface uap0:
> root at freedombox:/home/fbx# dmesg | grep uap
> uap_probe: vendor=0x02DF device=0x9104 class=0 function=1
> uap_probe: uap_add_callback failed
> uap_sdio: probe of mmc0:0001:1 failed with error -1
> root at freedombox:/home/fbx# ifconfig uap0 up
> uap0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
>
> 3. Download and install the firmware from GlobalScale:
> (Note: The download link below came from here: 
> http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=5847.0 )
> root at freedombox:~# apt-get install unzip uaputl
> root at freedombox:~# wget 
> http://spinifex.net/plugs/downloads/dreamplug/clwifi_modules_2_6_38_8.zip
> root at freedombox:~# unzip clwifi_modules_2_6_38_8.zip
> root at freedombox:~# cp -r mrvl/ /lib/firmware/mrvl/
>
> 4. Reboot, then bring up the interface:
> root at freedombox:/home/fbx# dmesg | grep uap
> uap_probe: vendor=0x02DF device=0x9104 class=0 function=1
> root at freedombox:/home/fbx# ifconfig uap0 up
>
> 5. Use uaputl to configure the AP, by following the instructions here: 
> http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/Setting_GuruPlug_to_be_a_WiFi_Access_Point
>
> fbx at freedombox:~$ uaputl bss_stop
> BSS stopped!
> fbx at freedombox:~$ uaputl sys_cfg_ssid "freedombox"
> SSID setting successful
> fbx at freedombox:~$ uaputl sys_cfg_protocol 32
> protocol setting successful
> fbx at freedombox:~$ uaputl sys_cfg_wpa_passphrase "freedombox"
> WPA passphrase setting successful
> fbx at freedombox:~$ uaputl sys_cfg_wpa_passphrase
> WPA passphrase = freedombox
> fbx at freedombox:~$ uaputl sys_cfg_cipher 8 8
> cipher setting successful
> fbx at freedombox:~$ uaputl sys_cfg_channel 0 1
> Channel setting successful
> fbx at freedombox:~$ uaputl sys_cfg_radio_ctl 0
> Radio setting successful
> fbx at freedombox:~$ uaputl bss_start
> BSS started!
>
> At this point it seems like a client can connect, but does not obtain 
> an IP address. There are instructions on that page for setting up 
> routing and udhcpd, but I'm not familiar enough with that process to 
> troubleshoot it.
>
> Note that I am configuring the AP as a normal user, not root user. 
> This means that the following issue has *not* been fixed:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2010/05/msg00082.html
>
> Also this raises questions such as:
> 1. Why is the extra firmware required?
> 2. Can we include it?
> 3. Should it be merged into firmware-libertas?
> I don't know enough about firmware or how it's packaged in Debian to 
> answer these questions.
>
>
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