Porting Openwrt for OMAP 4430

Dear Boyko,

                      Thanks for response. I was able to solve the error. But after the build was done successfully, I flashed the image to the board . When I turned on the Wifi by just giving the "wifi" command, I get the following error.

" root@OpenWrt:/# wifi

Configuration file: /var/run/hostapd-phy0.conf

Line 49: unknown configuration item 'ieee80211n'

Line 50: unknown configuration item 'ht_capab'

2 error found in configuration file '/var/run/hostapd-phy0.conf'

Failed to set up interface with /var/run/hostapd-phy0.conf

Failed to initialize interface

Failed to start hostapd for phy0

root@OpenWrt:/#  "

Can you help me in solving this issue?

Regards

Sheriff

Hi Sheriff,

can you post the content of hostapd.conf ( also  you can start hostapd  with hostapd -dd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf for precise output dignostics)

Regards,

Boyko

Hi Boyko,

                 I have searched for hostapd.conf file. But its not there. Am I missing anything while i am building Openwrt?

Below i have pasted the hostapd-phy0.conf file.

*******************************************************************************************************

ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd-phy0
driver=nl80211
wmm_ac_bk_cwmin=4
wmm_ac_bk_cwmax=10
wmm_ac_bk_aifs=7
wmm_ac_bk_txop_limit=0
wmm_ac_bk_acm=0
wmm_ac_be_aifs=3
wmm_ac_be_cwmin=4
wmm_ac_be_cwmax=10
wmm_ac_be_txop_limit=0
wmm_ac_be_acm=0
wmm_ac_vi_aifs=2
wmm_ac_vi_cwmin=3
wmm_ac_vo_cwmax=3
wmm_ac_vo_txop_limit=47
wmm_ac_vo_acm=0
tx_queue_data3_aifs=7
tx_queue_data3_cwmin=15
tx_queue_data3_cwmax=1023
tx_queue_data3_burst=0
tx_queue_data2_aifs=3
tx_queue_data2_cwmin=15
tx_queue_data2_cwmax=63
tx_queue_data2_burst=0
tx_queue_data1_aifs=1
tx_queue_data1_cwmin=7
tx_queue_data1_cwmax=15
tx_queue_data1_burst=3.0
tx_queue_data0_aifs=1
tx_queue_data0_cwmin=3
wmm_ac_vi_cwmax=4     
wmm_ac_vi_txop_limit=94
wmm_ac_vi_acm=0        
wmm_ac_vo_aifs=2       
wmm_ac_vo_cwmin=2      
wmm_ac_vo_cwmax=3      
wmm_ac_vo_txop_limit=47
wmm_ac_vo_acm=0        
tx_queue_data3_aifs=7  
tx_queue_data3_cwmin=15
tx_queue_data3_cwmax=1023
tx_queue_data3_burst=0   
tx_queue_data2_aifs=3    
tx_queue_data2_cwmin=15  
tx_queue_data2_cwmax=63  
tx_queue_data2_burst=0   
tx_queue_data1_aifs=1    
tx_queue_data1_cwmin=7   
tx_queue_data1_cwmax=15  
tx_queue_data1_burst=3.0
tx_queue_data0_aifs=1   
tx_queue_data0_cwmin=3  
tx_queue_data0_cwmax=7  
tx_queue_data0_burst=1.5
hw_mode=g               
channel=11  




                         
logger_syslog=127        
logger_syslog_level=2    
logger_stdout=127        
logger_stdout_level=2    
ieee80211n=1             
ht_capab=[HT20][GF][SHORT-GI-20][RX-STBC1]
                         
interface=wlan0                           
ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd-phy0      
disassoc_low_ack=1                        
preamble=1                                
auth_algs=1                               
wpa=0                                     
ssid=OpenWrt                              
bridge=br-lan                             
wmm_enabled=1                             
bssid=de:ad:be:ef:00:00                   
ignore_broadcast_ssid=0

****************************************************************************************

Regards

Sheriff

Sorry for the typo, I meant exacly hostapd-phy0.conf. ( hostpd -v to check its version)

When you build your os what version did you use and do you have  the option below enabled?

CONFIG_IEEE80211N=y

Regards,

Boyko

Hi Boyko,

                 I have pasted the hostapd version below.

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root@OpenWrt:/# hostapd -v
hostapd v2.1-devel
User space daemon for IEEE 802.11 AP management,
IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator
Copyright (c) 2002-2013, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and contributors
root@OpenWrt:/#

*************************************************************

Yes the option CONFIG_IEEE80211N=y was enabled and it was there in hostapd -> .config file.

Regards

Sheriff

CONFIG_IEEE80211N=y is build option. How do you build your project?

If you use first make menuconfig then you can check with /openwrt/scripts/diffconfig.sh the non-default options generated to .config file which later on you can modify.

Regards,

Boyko

Hi Boyko,

                Let me explain how I build Openwrt. In the make menuconfig, I used to select the necessary packages and would save and build it. There I don't find any option to enable the CONFIG_IEEE80211N. Instead I select the following packages to enable wifi:

Kernel Modules->Wireless Drivers->kmod-cfg80211

                                                               ->kmod-lib80211

                                                               ->kmod-mac80211

                                                               ->kmod-wl12xx

Network->wireless->horst

                                 ->xsupplicant

Network->hostapd

                 ->hostapd-utils

                 ->iw

                 ->wpad

The above are the options that i have selected. 

Below are the contents of the /trunk/scripts/diffconfig.sh

****************************************************************

#!/bin/sh
grep \^CONFIG_TARGET_ .config | head -n3 > tmp/.diffconfig.head
grep '^CONFIG_ALL=y' .config >> tmp/.diffconfig.head
grep '^CONFIG_DEVEL=y' .config >> tmp/.diffconfig.head
grep '^CONFIG_TOOLCHAINOPTS=y' .config >> tmp/.diffconfig.head
./scripts/config/conf --defconfig=tmp/.diffconfig.head -w tmp/.diffconfig.stage1 Config.in >/dev/null
./scripts/kconfig.pl '>+' tmp/.diffconfig.stage1 .config >> tmp/.diffconfig.head
./scripts/config/conf --defconfig=tmp/.diffconfig.head -w tmp/.diffconfig.stage2 Config.in >/dev/null
./scripts/kconfig.pl '>' tmp/.diffconfig.stage2 .config >> tmp/.diffconfig.head
cat tmp/.diffconfig.head
rm -f tmp/.diffconfig tmp/.diffconfig.head

****************************************************************

Regards

Sheriff

The SH script is executed to show what is set different from the default. However

open openwrt/package/hostapd/Config.in and add something like

config CONFIG_IEEE80211N
    bool
    default y

hope this helps.

Regards

Boyko

Hi Boyko,

             I tried including the mentioned lines in the trunk/package/network/services/hostapd/Config.in  file and I was able to see the CONFIG_IEEE80211N in the make menuconfig . But after building the image, there was no change in the output. Any other options?

            Please also do share openwrt built images if any with wifi enabled.

Thanks

Sheriff Manzoor F 

Hi Sheriff,

I found that other people had this kind of driver problem, but unfortunately they didn’t conclude a verified fix and stated that  problem was removed in the latest versions.

Did you try the "Attitude Adjustment" tree http://downloads.openwrt.org/attitude_adjustment/12.09/omap4/generic/ and see if really is fixed there?

Regards,

Boyko

Hi Boyko,

             I tried the attitude adjustment and was not able to get any output when I tried wifi command. No logs and no wireless file in /etc/config/wireless.

             Also i would like to mention you that I enable DRIVER_11N_SUPPORT after which my logs for the wifi changed to the following

"

root@OpenWrt:/# wifi

Configuration file: /var/run/hostapd-phy0.conf [  325.713531] wlcore: firmware chunk too long: 407449728 [  326.349182] wlcore: firmware chunk too long: 407449728 [  327.289276] wlcore: firmware chunk too long: 407449728 [  327.294738] wlcore: ERROR firmware boot failed despite 3 retries Could not set interface wlan0 flags (UP): Invalid argument

nl80211: Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP

nl80211 driver initialization failed.

Failed to initialize interface

Failed to start hostapd for phy0  "

How could I proceed further?

Regards

Sheriff

Hi Boyko,

                 One more thing i also tried to check for the modules that were loaded in which the wl12xx_sdio.ko was not loaded. When I tried to load it by copying wl12xx_sdio  to the /lib/modules/3.3.8/ , and load it by giving the command insmod wl12xx_sdio.ko, it gives the following error:

[  191.414367] Error: Driver 'wl1271_sdio' is already registered, aborting...
kmod: failed to insert /lib/modules/3.3.8/wl12xx_sdio.ko

Please provide some suggestions on this to proceed further.

Regards

Sheriff Manzoor

Hi Boyko,

                  Thanks for the support, I was able to enable the Wifi in pandaboard. I was using development branch till now. So i tried with attitude adjustment 12.09 branch and its working fine.

Regards

Sheriff Manzoor F