Bringing up WiFi interface on Wandboard Quad

[PLyttle]

I've not switched mainline because of an annoying delay in terminal activity during ssh. Does this also happen on a revB1?

EDIT: And WiFi is horribly slow.

EDIT-2: should have known. Rev C1 not yet implemented.

[Alarmed]

delay exists even in wandboard kernel.

[PLyttle]

not in my system it doesn't.
LP

[PLyttle]

@ Alarmed, and anyone running mainline on Wandboard revB1 (bcm4329)

If I understand correctly you are running a mainline kernel on a revB1 board.

I am trying to fix the wifi/bluetooth problems on revC1, but in order not to mess up revB1 I would like to know the following:

does wifi on revB1 run normally with a mainline kernel (linux-armv7 or linux-armv7-rc)? no lockups or crappy thoughput?
What is the output of "rfkill list" ?
and (to make sure) of "uname -a" ?

pretty please with sugar on top?

I got wifi/bluetooth stable running on revC1 - see here: http://forums.wandboard.org/viewtopic.p ... ac8e1f664a but to make it into a general patch I need to know what revB1 needs.

thanks, LP

[Alarmed]

> does wifi on revB1 run normally with a mainline kernel (linux-armv7 or linux-armv7-rc)? no lockups or crappy thoughput?

Yes I've seen wifi run on both mainline and wandboard specific kernels. No crappy throughput for a few minutes/hour maybe. Then it suddenly dies (in both cases) with several errors in dmesg.

> What is the output of "rfkill list" ?
> and (to make sure) of "uname -a" ?

Just reinstalling the system in a bit (wifi stopped working after recent update of some package, not sure which), will run and confirm.

[PLyttle]

Interesting... Seems like the problem isn't revision related.

LP

[Alarmed]

I have plugged in my own USB wifi dongle until the on-board wifi issues are definitively resolved.

root@alarm ~]# rfkill list
0: wifi-rfkill: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: bluetooth-rfkill: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: phy1: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

uname -a:
Linux alarm 3.10.17-5-ARCH #1 SMP Thu Aug 7 05:30:06 MDT 2014 armv7l GNU/Linux

ip link gives:

3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000

[PLyttle]

Thanks. I was aiming for the mainline kernel, but all info is welcome.

Working on it

LP

[Alarmed]

you might have fixed it. Thanks....i left the wandboard running overnight with no pinging/nothing except NTP daemon running and the on-board interface is working. Sorry for being rude earlier

[Alarmed]

Ah I see what you meant. Although I have linux-armv7 its not the latest?