All, what is working / not working on the HiKey board. I've tried both the on board wifi plus a RealTek usb wifi, neither works for me. I don't think that the drivers are seeing the hardware and they're certainly not loading firmware. By the way, the USB wifi works fine under x86 linux.
David
Hi
This is still based on the Early Access release and is all being sorted out for the first “production” release.
The recent snapshot builds from 118 (which I’ve been using) work with the on-board WiFi with one proviso. At present you have to manually start up the network as the auto-start in Debian seems to expose a timing problem (the China team are looking at this).
[Also beware that Snapshot 125 (and later?) appears to have an HDMI regression so I wouldn’t recommend using that.]
Once you have the shell prompt use the following to get WiFi up and running:
First set up a /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file looking something like this:
network={ ssid=“your-ssid" psk=b7ba92455fe6e7f7eb4395abcdefghd52739aa8ad6a5de12e01d8966ed123456 }
with your own WPS psk hash (see the Getting Started notes)
Then do the following $ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
If you want to do scan to check things are basically working: $ sudo iw wlan0 scan | grep SSID
Then $ sudo wpa_supplicant -B -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dwext $ sudo dhclient wlan0
Then your network should be up. I’ve also heard (but not verified) that starting up WiFi may break Bluetooth - that is also being fixed.
George
On Mar 8, 2015, at 6:34 AM, David Rusling david.rusling@linaro.org wrote:
All, what is working / not working on the HiKey board. I've tried both the on board wifi plus a RealTek usb wifi, neither works for me. I don't think that the drivers are seeing the hardware and they're certainly not loading firmware. By the way, the USB wifi works fine under x86 linux.
David
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Harston Mill Royston Road Harston, cambridge CB22 7GG
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Thanks. I'll try the official builds. However, I'm building the latest (out of the 96Boards git repository, both 3.18.0+ and 4.0) based on the .config file used by Linaro + some more device support. Trying the instructions below, it doesn't find and properly initialise the device. Is this a case of needing more of an update than the kernel
On 08/03/15 14:30, George Grey wrote:
Hi
This is still based on the Early Access release and is all being sorted out for the first “production” release.
The recent snapshot builds from 118 (which I’ve been using) work with the on-board WiFi with one proviso. At present you have to manually start up the network as the auto-start in Debian seems to expose a timing problem (the China team are looking at this).
[Also beware that Snapshot 125 (and later?) appears to have an HDMI regression so I wouldn’t recommend using that.]
Once you have the shell prompt use the following to get WiFi up and running:
First set up a /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file looking something like this:
network={ ssid=“your-ssid" psk=b7ba92455fe6e7f7eb4395abcdefghd52739aa8ad6a5de12e01d8966ed123456 }
with your own WPS psk hash (see the Getting Started notes)
Then do the following $ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
If you want to do scan to check things are basically working: $ sudo iw wlan0 scan | grep SSID
Then $ sudo wpa_supplicant -B -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dwext $ sudo dhclient wlan0
Then your network should be up. I’ve also heard (but not verified) that starting up WiFi may break Bluetooth - that is also being fixed.
George
On Mar 8, 2015, at 6:34 AM, David Rusling david.rusling@linaro.org wrote:
All, what is working / not working on the HiKey board. I've tried both the on board wifi plus a RealTek usb wifi, neither works for me. I don't think that the drivers are seeing the hardware and they're certainly not loading firmware. By the way, the USB wifi works fine under x86 linux.
David
David Rusling, CTO Linaro
Harston Mill Royston Road Harston, cambridge CB22 7GG
Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@lists.96boards.org https://lists.96boards.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
OK, can someone point me the coherent set of images (including the fastboot images). I'm assuming the build 118 is the one to baseline from...
Many thanks, David
On 08/03/15 15:12, David Rusling wrote:
Thanks. I'll try the official builds. However, I'm building the latest (out of the 96Boards git repository, both 3.18.0+ and 4.0) based on the .config file used by Linaro + some more device support. Trying the instructions below, it doesn't find and properly initialise the device. Is this a case of needing more of an update than the kernel
On 08/03/15 14:30, George Grey wrote:
Hi
This is still based on the Early Access release and is all being sorted out for the first “production” release.
The recent snapshot builds from 118 (which I’ve been using) work with the on-board WiFi with one proviso. At present you have to manually start up the network as the auto-start in Debian seems to expose a timing problem (the China team are looking at this).
[Also beware that Snapshot 125 (and later?) appears to have an HDMI regression so I wouldn’t recommend using that.]
Once you have the shell prompt use the following to get WiFi up and running:
First set up a /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file looking something like this:
network={ ssid=“your-ssid" psk=b7ba92455fe6e7f7eb4395abcdefghd52739aa8ad6a5de12e01d8966ed123456 }
with your own WPS psk hash (see the Getting Started notes)
Then do the following $ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
If you want to do scan to check things are basically working: $ sudo iw wlan0 scan | grep SSID
Then $ sudo wpa_supplicant -B -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dwext $ sudo dhclient wlan0
Then your network should be up. I’ve also heard (but not verified) that starting up WiFi may break Bluetooth - that is also being fixed.
George
On Mar 8, 2015, at 6:34 AM, David Rusling david.rusling@linaro.org wrote:
All, what is working / not working on the HiKey board. I've tried both the on board wifi plus a RealTek usb wifi, neither works for me. I don't think that the drivers are seeing the hardware and they're certainly not loading firmware. By the way, the USB wifi works fine under x86 linux.
David
David Rusling, CTO Linaro
Harston Mill Royston Road Harston, cambridge CB22 7GG
Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@lists.96boards.org https://lists.96boards.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
Baseline from the “Release” done at Connect ie follow the Early Access Getting Started Release notes to the letter - load all the bootloader files from scratch to be sure you are using the right baseline. Then when you have the base release working (eMMC images) next load the 118 images on top into the eMMC (fastboot the boot (kernel) and jessie file system both for eMMC). This should work - I’ve done it on several boards. George
On Mar 9, 2015, at 8:55 AM, David Rusling david.rusling@linaro.org wrote:
OK, can someone point me the coherent set of images (including the fastboot images). I'm assuming the build 118 is the one to baseline from...
Many thanks, David
On 08/03/15 15:12, David Rusling wrote:
Thanks. I'll try the official builds. However, I'm building the latest (out of the 96Boards git repository, both 3.18.0+ and 4.0) based on the .config file used by Linaro + some more device support. Trying the instructions below, it doesn't find and properly initialise the device. Is this a case of needing more of an update than the kernel
On 08/03/15 14:30, George Grey wrote:
Hi
This is still based on the Early Access release and is all being sorted out for the first “production” release.
The recent snapshot builds from 118 (which I’ve been using) work with the on-board WiFi with one proviso. At present you have to manually start up the network as the auto-start in Debian seems to expose a timing problem (the China team are looking at this).
[Also beware that Snapshot 125 (and later?) appears to have an HDMI regression so I wouldn’t recommend using that.]
Once you have the shell prompt use the following to get WiFi up and running:
First set up a /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file looking something like this:
network={ ssid=“your-ssid" psk=b7ba92455fe6e7f7eb4395abcdefghd52739aa8ad6a5de12e01d8966ed123456 }
with your own WPS psk hash (see the Getting Started notes)
Then do the following $ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
If you want to do scan to check things are basically working: $ sudo iw wlan0 scan | grep SSID
Then $ sudo wpa_supplicant -B -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dwext $ sudo dhclient wlan0
Then your network should be up. I’ve also heard (but not verified) that starting up WiFi may break Bluetooth - that is also being fixed.
George
On Mar 8, 2015, at 6:34 AM, David Rusling david.rusling@linaro.org wrote:
All, what is working / not working on the HiKey board. I've tried both the on board wifi plus a RealTek usb wifi, neither works for me. I don't think that the drivers are seeing the hardware and they're certainly not loading firmware. By the way, the USB wifi works fine under x86 linux.
David
David Rusling, CTO Linaro
Harston Mill Royston Road Harston, cambridge CB22 7GG
Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@lists.96boards.org https://lists.96boards.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
-- David Rusling, CTO Linaro
Harston Mill Royston Road Harston, cambridge CB22 7GG
Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@lists.96boards.org https://lists.96boards.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 8:00 PM, George Grey george.grey@linaro.org wrote:
Hi
This is still based on the Early Access release and is all being sorted out for the first “production” release.
The recent snapshot builds from 118 (which I’ve been using) work with the on-board WiFi with one proviso. At present you have to manually start up the network as the auto-start in Debian seems to expose a timing problem (the China team are looking at this).
[Also beware that Snapshot 125 (and later?) appears to have an HDMI regression so I wouldn’t recommend using that.]
Going forward, as the number of boards increase, it would be nice to have a page pointing to the "recommended" build for each of these boards to help users who don't track kernels/builds on a daily basis. Cyanogenmod, for example, does this[1] and default to the nightly builds.
Another page could have a itemised list of features (for example, usb, hdmi, wifi, cpufreq, thermal) and their status (working, WIP, planned) on the vendor and mainline kernels. This could help in involving the community in feature enablement.
If this is seen as useful, it would be easier to get the pages started now when we have only one board to worry about.
Regards, Amit [1] http://download.cyanogenmod.org/
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