Enabling the wireless in a PogoPlug Pro

[besnell]

I have myself a PogoPlug Pro upon which I have installed Arch Linux ARM as per the instructions HERE

One of the things that I noticed upon completion of the installation is / was the fact that the wireless device has not been enabled. I am looking to use both the ethernet and wireless adapters on my pogoplug pro.

I have been (trying) to use THIS as a guide however I get hung up on a couple of things.

• Which module must be included in order to use the wireless adapter that comes built into the Pro?
• Are there any other packages / applications which must be installed prior to being able to administrate the wireless device?
• Are there any changes / modifications / omissions / additions to Arch Linux ARM (from the base Arch Linux installation) that are needed in order to get the wireless adapter up and functioning full time?

[WarheadsSE]

Truthfully, there was an omission in the setup script that did not copy the firmware and a kernel module from the CE.

I have not yet compiled the kernel module (rt3390sta.ko) natively, but theirs works. There have been some issues seen with getting WPA2 / AES+TKIP running. Hooks right up to WEP though.

here is a tar with the .dat firmware and the rt3390sta.ko

http://my.pogoplug.com/share/PKLxZTu0Pl ... ess.tar.gz

[besnell]

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[root@PogoPlugPro ~]# ls -l
total 536
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 544531 Dec 31 19:15 pro-wirless.tar.gz
[root@PogoPlugPro ~]# tar -xvzf pro-wireless.tar.gz tar (child): pro-wireless.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
[root@PogoPlugPro ~]#
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Ran into some issues trying to extract the tarball...

[jonsmirl]

I'm not having any luck with copying the files over. Is it not finding the firmware? The udev rules set up the same? I put a copy in /lib/firmware too but that didn't help.

[ 23.580000]
[ 23.580000]
[ 23.580000] === pAd = c8a4d000, size = 519160 ===
[ 23.580000]
[ 23.580000] <-- RTMPAllocAdapterBlock, Status=0
[ 23.580000] pAd->CSRBaseAddress =0xf5000000, csr_addr=0xf5000000!



[root@Arch Linux ARM install ~]# ls /etc/Wireless/RT2860STA
RT2860STA.dat RT2860STA.dat.old
[root@Arch Linux ARM install ~]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
rt3390sta 1111860 0
gmac 40380 0
mii 6100 1 gmac
[root@Arch Linux ARM install ~]#

[jonsmirl]

I can't find the package for iwconfig either.

[jonsmirl]

I had forgotten about using 'ifconfig -a' to get the device name. Once I figured out it was ra0 I was able to bring it up with 'ifconfig ra0 up'.

[root@Arch Linux ARM install rc.d]# dhcpcd ra0
dhcpcd[669]: version 5.2.12 starting
dhcpcd[669]: ra0: broadcasting for a lease
dhcpcd[669]: ra0: offered 192.168.1.11 from 192.168.1.1
dhcpcd[669]: ra0: acknowledged 192.168.1.11 from 192.168.1.1
dhcpcd[669]: ra0: checking for 192.168.1.11
dhcpcd[669]: ra0: leased 192.168.1.11 for 86400 seconds
dhcpcd[669]: forked to background, child pid 700
[root@Arch Linux ARM install rc.d]#

now with eth0 off and ssh over wifi:

[root@Arch Linux ARM install ~]# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:268 (268.0 b) TX bytes:268 (268.0 b)

ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 74:F0:6D:69:C4:7B
inet addr:192.168.1.11 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: 2002:ad4c:1c5f:1:76f0:6dff:fe69:c47b/64 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fe80::76f0:6dff:fe69:c47b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:15407 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:144 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3926321 (3.7 Mb) TX bytes:12756 (12.4 Kb)
Interrupt:51

[root@Arch Linux ARM install ~]#

[besnell]

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[root@PogoPlugPro ~]# ls -l
total 536
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 544531 Dec 31 19:15 pro-wirless.tar.gz
[root@PogoPlugPro ~]# tar -xvzf pro-wireless.tar.gz tar (child): pro-wireless.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
[root@PogoPlugPro ~]#
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Ran into some issues trying to extract the tarball...

[WarheadsSE]

This has instructions on connecting to WPA2, no need for wpa_supplicant, etc.
http://Arch Linux ARM.com/index.php5/Hardware ... ro_Wireles

[pepedog]

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