Try building core-image-base or adding packagegroup-base-extended to your 
IMAGE_INSTALL. This should add the modules and firmware.

core-image-minimal is just that and only includes just enough to boot the 
system.

P.S. if you add "wifi" to your DISTRO_FEATURES, then packagegroup-base-wifi 
should automatically get added to the image. Checkout 
meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-base.bb to see how that works.

Thomas

From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org] On 
Behalf Of Chris Tapp
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 2:28 PM
To: James Abernathy
Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org; Gary Thomas
Subject: Re: [yocto] adding all the pieces of WiFi to core-image-minimal


On 26 Jan 2015, at 19:31, James Abernathy <jfaberna...@outlook.com> wrote:


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.

I'm not an expert here, but I think that adding kernel-modules and 
linux-firmware to your extra_install should give you what you need.


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


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