Re: [Gumstix-users] Upgrading to the latest Wilink drivers for Overo boards

[Glen W. <gl...@je...>]

I have noticed flakiness with the wifi drivers on the duovero but have not yet had time to track it down.

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> On Feb 8, 2016, at 5:30 AM, Matt Gardner <mat...@ho...> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> We've noticed significant WiFi connectivity issues with our Firestorm-Y vs other commercial wireless products. At 50 foot distances and with relatively high SNR of 15 to 20 db, we get 100% packet loss and connection drops.
> 
> We'd like to try out TI's latest WiFi driver for the wilink module. I've noticed that the prebuilt and live build images provided by gumstix use really old wilink drivers.
> 
> Has anyone successfully updated their kernel to use the latest wilink driver R8.6 (or even 8.4, 8.5)? We've followed TIs build scripts to compile the driver against the yocto 3.17.8 kernel, but can't detect the wlan0 interface. We have also tried kernel 4.4.x, since the TI drivers were supposedly part of the mainline after 4.1, but we resulted with the same problem.
> 
> Are significant changes required to the device tree dts/dtsi files? If so, why aren't the overo dts files in kernel 4.4.x patched?
> 
> Any thoughts or experiences greatly welcomed,
> 
> Matt
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