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Update firmware for wifi dongle on DM814X

Hi,

I am able to see the wlan0 connection in the output of iwconfig but wlan fails to start and set an ip address.

 IWCONFIG output

root@dm814x-evm:/usr/local/sbin/sbin# ./iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.

 eth0      no wireless extensions.

 wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:off/any

          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=0 dBm

          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off

          Encryption key:off

          Power Management:on

IFCONFIG output

root@dm814x-evm:/usr/local/sbin/sbin# ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 40:5F:C2:3E:BD:A0

          inet addr:10.1.115.42  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING ALLMULTI MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:10805 errors:0 dropped:582 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:7465 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:7841462 (7.4 MiB)  TX bytes:1049788 (1.0 MiB)

          Interrupt:40

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Start wlan -

root@dm814x-evm: # ifconfig wlan0 up

phy0 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.

ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

dmesg output -

usb 2-1.4: new high speed USB device using musb-hdrc and address 4
usb 2-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=0411, idProduct=015d
usb 2-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 2-1.4: Product: 802.11 n WLAN
usb 2-1.4: Manufacturer: Ralink
usb 2-1.4: SerialNumber: 1.0
PM: Adding info for usb:2-1.4
PM: Adding info for usb:2-1.4:1.0
PM: Adding info for No Bus:phy0
ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
PM: Adding info for No Bus:wlan0
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ep_81
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ep_01
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ep_02
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ep_03
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ep_04
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ep_05
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ep_06
PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev2.4
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ep_00
PM: Adding info for No Bus:2-1.4:1.0
PM: Removing info for No Bus:2-1.4:1.0
phy0 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.

Since the firmware updation needs to be done for the dongle, please could anyone provide me pointers on how to go about this in updating the rt2870.bin file.

Any other pointers would be helpful.

Thanks and Regards,

Rohini