[Gumstix-users] Still problems with Wireless LAN

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Hello again

This is now my third time trying, and since I don't want to bump the old threads (due to the new image) I thought of creating a new one.
I'm using the new Gumstix image built on the 4. January 2010 (downloaded the official one, http://www.sakoman.com/feeds/omap3/glibc/images/overo/201001041459/).
Yet still I have the same 2 issues as before: No Ethernet and no WLAN. But let's concentrate on the WLAN here.

Printout of ifconfig -a:
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:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:1152 (1.1 KiB)  TX bytes:1152 (1.1 KiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:19:88:11:E4:2A  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Great. Now "iwlist wlan0 scan":
wlan0     Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
Okay, sounds not so bad: "ifconfig wlan0 up":
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
(What does this mean!? All I find when googling it are some ubuntu users having problems or things about wpa_supplicant.conf - but the message even appears when I don't load wpa_supplicant at all!?)
But now it works: "iwlist wlan0 scan":
wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:24:01:38:BE:C1
                    ESSID:"Router 2.4GHz"
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
                    Quality=77/100  Signal level=-71 dBm  Noise level=-96 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
                              9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK

So it seams, as if the WLAN is found, but somehow I can't connect to it. This is what I tried:
iwconfig wlan0 essid "Router 2.4GHz" enc s:"secret"
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.200 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.1
68.0.255 up
route add default gw 192.168.0.1
ping -c3 192.168.0.1

(But got 100% packet loss, no error messages reported while executing these commands)

Another try:
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid "Router 2.4Ghz"
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.200 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 up
route add default gw 192.168.0.1
ping -c3 192.168.0.1

(Same result, 100% loss, no error messages reported while executing these commands)

And my last try (directly in the /etc/network/interfaces)
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
   address 192.168.0.200
   netmask 255.255.255.0
   network 192.168.0.0
   broadcast 192.168.0.255
   gateway 192.168.0.1
   # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
   dns-nameservers 80.58.61.250 80.58.61.254
   dns-search example.org
   wpa-ssid "Router 2.4Ghz"
   wpa-driver wext
   wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

(But when I run "iwconfig wlan0" the ESSID is still "" (and the wlan0 network is still down))

Here are some posts from the boot print-out:

Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.4.2 (Jul  8 2009 - 21:19:00)
Loading u-boot.bin from nand
U-Boot 2009.11 (Jan 04 2010 - 15:09:55)
OMAP3530-GP ES3.1, CPU-OPP2 L3-165MHz
Gumstix Overo board + LPDDR/NAND
I2C:   ready
DRAM:  256 MB
NAND:  256 MiB
*** Warning - bad CRC or NAND, using default environment
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Die ID #1d4c00040000000004035c1418018021
Net:   smc911x: Invalid chip endian 0xc7e543a1
No ethernet found.
(*snip*)
ALSA: Restoring mixer settings...
Configuring network interfaces... libertas: 00:19:88:11:e4:2a, fw 9.70.3p24, cap 0x00000303
libertas: wlan0: Marvell WLAN 802.11 adapter
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
eth0      No such device
eth0: unknown interface: No such device
done.
Starting portmap daemon: portmap.
(*snip*)

Here is my /etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
      pre-up wpa_supplicant -Dmarvell -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Bw
      down killall wpa_supplicant

And my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:
network={
    ssid="Router 2.4Ghz"
    #psk="secret"
    psk=8596ba593c8d97eaac9c2d64210665b3c44affd924de122443bfa264c1044d08
}

And my /etc/modules: (my router only supports ipv4, could this be a problem? But even if I replace ipv6 with ipv4 nothing changes...)
ipv6
smsc911x

Any ideas why it doesn't work? And maybe some input why ethernet isn't working either? There HAS to be an easy way to simply get Ethernet to work!?
Why does it say

Net:   smc911x: Invalid chip endian 0xc7e543a1

No ethernet found.

? Even if I remove "smsc911x" from /etc/modules the message stays the same?
And if I comment out all the "wlan0" stuff in "/etc/network/interfaces" there is still a wlan0 found by "ifconfig -a"?
But if I remove the "eth0" stuff in the same file, the eth0 interface is (correctly!) no more evaluated. But why still a wlan0? Ar there some other configuration files?
Can you maybe give me a list of commands to get some debug-messages out of the system, what goes wrong? or where?

Greetings
Florian

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