[Gumstix-users] WiFi Problems

[Justin F. <jus...@ho...>]

In regard to my previous message, I found the solution to the buildroot 
problem in the Gumstix forums:

http://www.gumstix.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=1818&topics_threshold=0&topics_offset=2&topics_sort_mode=lastPost_desc&topics_find=&forumId=3

I successfully created the buildroot (SVN 1061) with hostap, hotplug, 
pcmcia, and wtools.  However, WiFi still does not work.  When the Gumstix is 
booting, I see this message:

   Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr[215]: no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices

Performing 'cat /proc/devices' yeilds the following:

   Character devices:
      1 mem
      4 ttyS
      5 /dev/tty
      5 /dev/console
      5 /dev/ptmx
      10 misc
      90 mtd
      128 ptm
      136 pts

   Block devices:
      31 mtdblock

On the "out of the box" Gumstix with an approximately 1 year old buildroot 
the character devices includes "254 pcmcia".  This is clearly missing on the 
1061 buildroot.  Is the missing device supposed to be inserted on startup or 
do these devices get created in the buildroot?

I'm out of element in trying to debug this problem -- any help would be 
greatly appreciated.

Justin

>Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:58:55 +0000
>From: "Justin Ford" <jus...@ho...>
>Subject: [Gumstix-users] PCMCIA Package Required for WiFi?
>To: gum...@li...
>Message-ID: <BAY...@ph...l>
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>I had a working build of 1039 that I was using to do some Python scripting.
>I need to add a WiFi card, so I enabled the CF slot and rebooted with the
>card inserted.  The results were not pleasing.  I reverted to a "fresh out
>of the box" Gumstix and tried the same changes and it worked perfectly 
>(same
>WiFi card immediately connected to an access point).  I compared the
>packages in a known working WiFi buildroot (year old or so) to my present
>buildroot and found the following were missing from 1039 by default:
>     hostap
>     pcmcia
>