I get a clean build when I add: CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += " packagegroup-base-wifi”
However, I have no wireless drivers. I must have to add something to add the drivers and firmware to the kernel. Not sure what though. Jim A > On Jan 26, 2015, at 11:09 AM, James Abernathy <jfaberna...@outlook.com> wrote: > >> >> On Jan 26, 2015, at 10:52 AM, Gary Thomas <g...@mlbassoc.com> wrote: >> >> On 2015-01-26 08:26, James Abernathy wrote: >>> >>>> On Jan 26, 2015, at 8:49 AM, Gary Thomas <g...@mlbassoc.com >>>> <mailto:g...@mlbassoc.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 2015-01-26 06:29, James Abernathy wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Jan 23, 2015, at 12:37 PM, Gary Thomas <g...@mlbassoc.com >>>>>> <mailto:g...@mlbassoc.com>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On 2015-01-23 10:24, Jim Abernathy wrote: >>>>>>> I'm starting a project mostly for self-education. I have already done >>>>>>> the project using Ubuntu Server 14.04 using a Intel NUC and a >>>>>>> Pandaboard as targets. Now I want to see how >>>>>>> easy it is to move it to Yocto. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Starting with the NUC, I can boot Dizzy 1.7.1 core-image-minimal and >>>>>>> core-image-sato, both built with bitbake and not the prebuilt images. >>>>>>> However, core-image-minimal doesn't have >>>>>>> WiFi and core-image-sato does, but I don't need all the GUI stuff. >>>>>>> It's a headless application. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> So what is recommended; eliminating the GUI from sato or adding wifi >>>>>>> and wpa-supplicant, etc to minimal?? Also any pointers to how to do >>>>>>> the adding/subtracting would be most >>>>>>> helpful. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Once this is working all I have to do is put apache-tomcat, and >>>>>>> openjdk-7-jre, then my application. >>>>>> >>>>>> We use just iw & wpa-supplicant and set up the configuration >>>>>> files manually (e.g. the wpa-supplicant configurations). >>>>> >>>>> Could you help with a little more details. What I envision is adding an >>>>> append statement of some kind to local.conf to load in the wireless >>>>> related files to core-image-minimal, >>>>> same with openjdk-7-jre and tomcat7, but my first efforts have generated >>>>> some unintelligible error for me. So that’s why I’m looking for >>>>> direction on where to start with this. >>>> >>>> What was the error you got? I'll bet it was for 'iw' which >>>> is a package from meta-oe, so you'll need to add that layer >>>> >>>> Once you've added the meta-oe layer, you should be able to >>>> put this line in your local.conf: >>>> CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += " iw wpa-supplicant” >>>> >>> Okay, what I don’t get is the fact that without any additional layers, >>> bitbake core-image-sato builds all the WiFi features I need. bitbake >>> core-image-minimal does not. So I’m >>> thinking that there is some CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL statement that can >>> just add what is needed without extra layers. >>> >>> I guess it just doesn’t make sense to me right now. >> >> Try using >> CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += " packagegroup-base-wifi" >> which will bring in 'wireless-tools' and 'wpa-supplicant'. >> >> I prefer 'iw' to 'wireless-tools' as it is newer and [IMO] >> simpler to use. >> > Thanks, I found that I can clean build with just the wpa-supplicant added and > I’m hoping that will bring in the wifi drivers. If it does, all I want to do > is edit the /etc/interfaces file with the Static IP of the wlan0, the static > IP of the eth0 and the wpa-xxx for the WKPA2_PSK information. > > Do I really need the tools? I don’t need CLI commands to change any network > parameters later. > > Jim A > >> -- >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> Gary Thomas | Consulting for the >> MLB Associates | Embedded world >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> yocto mailing list >> yocto@yoctoproject.org <mailto:yocto@yoctoproject.org> >> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto >> <https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto> > > -- > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org <mailto:yocto@yoctoproject.org> > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > <https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto>
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