Re: [Gumstix-users] Another overo fire wifi post

[AJ O. <coo...@gm...>]

What a coincidence! I just got my Fire in the mail yesterday and started
setting it up and then saw this post last night before going to bed.

I had a heck of a time figuring out how to get it working
(I haven't used wireless command line tools in linux since back in `04 when
I had to compile the drivers by hand)

I've got a write-up of how I got mine working, but it doesn't work well
either.
http://fastr.github.com/articles/marvell-wifi-on-gumstix-overo-fire.html
Perhaps someone can share some pointers?

I found your firmware post, I believe:
http://old.nabble.com/file/p29272793/Marvell_firmware_9.70.7.zip

But I'm not sure if it made any difference.

I haven't tried updating the kernel yet. It still has the stock kernel on
it.

AJ ONeal


On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:44 AM, msbroadf <msb...@gm...> wrote:

>
> I had the same problem with the onboard wifi causing a lot of tx errors etc
> and generally the reliability for tx and rx was pretty poor.
>
> What i found helped things a bit (reduces the tx errors) was upradeing the
> marvell firmware.  (Search this forum, for my post of the upgraded
> firmware).
>
> However the performance still wasnt ideal for me so i just ended up buying
> a
> simple wifi dongle and that works pretty well.  Ralink 3072 and realtek
> 8188SU dongles worked for me after i compiled the drivers using source on
> their website.
>
>
>
> vwyodapink wrote:
> >
> > There still seems to be no improvement with the libertas driver and
> > the watchdog issues with the onboard wifi. Has anyone come up with any
> > patches and or fixes to get the on board working smoothly with no
> > errors? I also see insane amount of lost packets no consistency on
> > speed things like that. Very frustrating to not be able to get a
> > consistent and reliable connection with the onboard. If you have
> > gotten yours working as normal as can be can you please post what you
> > did and not just oh mine works fine. There seems to be a few who claim
> > to have it running really well from previous posts but none seem to
> > share what or how they did it. Yes I do get access and it does " work
> > " I just dont feel its working up to par really. This could all be a
> > lack of experience thing on my end but I have never had such a hard
> > time with a wifi device before. Even running a simple adhoc setup with
> > the wifi does not return desirable results even compared to multiple
> > USB dongle adapters I have run from the board testing their speed
> > accuracy in the same manner. Thanks for any help and or clarification
> > to my thinking.
> >
> >
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