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@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@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@freedombox:~# apt-get install unzip uaputl
root@freedombox:~# wget
http://spinifex.net/plugs/downloads/dreamplug/clwifi_modules_2_6_38_8.zip
root@freedombox:~# unzip clwifi_modules_2_6_38_8.zip
root@freedombox:~# cp -r mrvl/ /lib/firmware/mrvl/
4. Reboot, then bring up the interface:
root@freedombox:/home/fbx# dmesg | grep uap
uap_probe: vendor=0x02DF device=0x9104 class=0 function=1
root@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@freedombox:~$ uaputl bss_stop
BSS stopped!
fbx@freedombox:~$ uaputl sys_cfg_ssid "freedombox"
SSID setting successful
fbx@freedombox:~$ uaputl sys_cfg_protocol 32
protocol setting successful
fbx@freedombox:~$ uaputl sys_cfg_wpa_passphrase "freedombox"
WPA passphrase setting successful
fbx@freedombox:~$ uaputl sys_cfg_wpa_passphrase
WPA passphrase = freedombox
fbx@freedombox:~$ uaputl sys_cfg_cipher 8 8
cipher setting successful
fbx@freedombox:~$ uaputl sys_cfg_channel 0 1
Channel setting successful
fbx@freedombox:~$ uaputl sys_cfg_radio_ctl 0
Radio setting successful
fbx@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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