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Re: wifi support on imx6 soc



Hi again,

 

On Friday 07 August 2015 21:08:22 Rainer Dorsch wrote:

> Hi,

>

> does anybody know if the Debian kernel supports wifi on the imx6 soc? I have

> a cubox- i.

>

> There are some indications in the Gentoo wiki

> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Cubox-i#Wifi[1]

> (but it is not entirely clear if this applies also to a vanilla kernel)

> The kernel modules load without any error reported (there are few signs that

> they have been loaded)

> root@home:~# grep BRCM /boot/config-4.1.0-trunk-armmp

> # CONFIG_BRCMSTB_GISB_ARB is not set

> CONFIG_BRCMUTIL=m

> CONFIG_BRCMSMAC=m

> CONFIG_BRCMFMAC=m

> CONFIG_BRCMFMAC_PROTO_BCDC=y

> CONFIG_BRCMFMAC_PROTO_MSGBUF=y

> CONFIG_BRCMFMAC_SDIO=y

> CONFIG_BRCMFMAC_USB=y

> CONFIG_BRCMFMAC_PCIE=y

> # CONFIG_BRCM_TRACING is not set

> # CONFIG_BRCMDBG is not set

> # CONFIG_POWER_RESET_BRCMSTB is not set

> root@home:~# modprobe -v brcmutil

> root@home:~# modprobe -v brcmfmac

> root@home:~# lsmod|grep brcm

> brcmsmac 502520 0

> cordic 907 1 brcmsmac

> bcma 38868 1 brcmsmac

> mac80211 512904 1 brcmsmac

> brcmfmac 216654 0

> brcmutil 5581 2 brcmfmac,brcmsmac

> cfg80211 404032 3 brcmfmac,brcmsmac,mac80211

> root@home:~#

> root@home:~# iwconfig

> lo no wireless extensions.

>

> eth1 no wireless extensions.

>

> root@home:~#

>

> One aspect I can see, which is different from images (e.g. openelec) which

> support wifi on the cubox-i is that they include not only .bin files in

> /lib/firmware/brcm, but als .txt files:

>

> root@home:~# cd /lib/firmware/brcm/

> root@home:/lib/firmware/brcm# ls

> bcm43xx-0.fw brcmfmac43143-sdio.bin brcmfmac43241b4-sdio.bin

> brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin brcmfmac4335-sdio.bin brcmfmac4354-sdio.bin

> bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw brcmfmac43241b0-sdio.bin brcmfmac4329-sdio.bin

> brcmfmac4334-sdio.bin brcmfmac43362-sdio.bin

> root@home:/lib/firmware/brcm# ls *.txt

> ls: cannot access *.txt: No such file or directory

> root@home:/lib/firmware/brcm# logout

> rd@home:~$ Abgemeldet

> Connection to bc closed.

> rd@blackbox:~$ ssh openelec

> ##############################################

> # OpenELEC - The living room PC for everyone #

> # ...... visit http://www.openelec.tv ...... #

> ##############################################

>

> OpenELEC (official) Version: 5.95.3

> cutv:~ # cd /lib/firmware/brcm/

> cutv:/lib/firmware/brcm # ls *.txt

> bcm4329-fullmac-4.txt brcmfmac4329-sdio.txt brcmfmac4330-sdio.txt

> cutv:/lib/firmware/brcm # ls

> LICENCE.broadcom_bcm43xx bcm43xx-0.fw

> brcmfmac43241b0-sdio.bin brcmfmac4329-sdio.txt brcmfmac4335-sdio.bin

> brcmfmac4356-pcie.bin bcm4329-fullmac-4.bin bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw

> brcmfmac43241b4-sdio.bin brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin

> brcmfmac43362-sdio.bin brcmfmac43569.bin bcm4329-fullmac-4.txt

> brcmfmac43143-sdio.bin brcmfmac43241b5-sdio.bin brcmfmac4330-sdio.txt

> brcmfmac4339-sdio.bin brcmfmac43570-pcie.bin bcm4329.hcd

> brcmfmac43143.bin brcmfmac43242a.bin brcmfmac4334-sdio.bin

> brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin brcmfmac43602-pcie.ap.bin bcm4330.hcd

> brcmfmac43236b.bin brcmfmac4329-sdio.bin

> brcmfmac43340-sdio.bin brcmfmac4354-sdio.bin

> brcmfmac43602-pcie.bin cutv:/lib/firmware/brcm #

>

 

It seems there are a number of patches available for the cubox-i

 

http://www.home.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/cubox/hummingboard-cubox-i-v4.1-rc1-20150606/

 

and there is also one for wifi/bluetooth included

 

http://www.home.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/cubox/hummingboard-cubox-i-v4.1-rc1-20150606/0005-ARM-dts-cubox-i-add-support-for-Broadcom-Wifi-Blueto.patch

 

So this means probably there is no chance running wifi with the Debian kernel (?).

 

Rainer

 

 

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Rainer Dorsch

http://bokomoko.de/


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