Wifi on Panda?

[moon127Member]

I’ve just installed Geexbox 3.0 on my ARM Pandaboard and have it working well using the Ethernet port.

I’d like to connect to samba shares using wifi but despite reading the docs on configuring /etc/network I don’t seem to be able to get wireless connected.

Does wifi work on Panda?

[tomlohaveModerator]

use dhcpc instead of connman for wifi on panda (edit /etc/network), it should work.

[a649mMember]

shouldn’t it be “udhcpc”?

Have the same issue and tried it with dhcpc before which didn’t work and checked the documentation later that I forgot the ‘u’…

Haven’t tried it since then.

 

I have another question to WLAN on pandaboard: should the WPA key be in plain text or in hex format?

[tomlohaveModerator]

right : udhcpc.

for WPA : I use the hex key

[a649mMember]

Still doesn’t work for me.

Is it a driver problem? The displayed MAC address (via ifconfig wlan0) is DE:AD:BE:EF like it is not initialized.

Other systems (e.g. Linaro Ubuntu build) show the MAC correct)

Is there something I could do about this?

[tomlohaveModerator]

did you install package udhcpc ?

[uffeMember]

I also have problems with getting the wifi to work on the pandaboard. Changing to udhcpc did not help, although I did not do any attempt to install it. Could you please enlighten on how to do that?

[tomlohaveModerator]

install the package udhcpc first then it should work

[uffeMember]

When I try “opkg install udhcpc” it says I already have the newest version.

I’ve now also tried all settings combinations I can think of in the ‘network’ file without success. This is the content of my best guess:

# Network configuration

# Backend software to use for network management (e.g. “connman”)
NETWORK_BACKEND=”udhcpc”

# “LAN” or “WLAN” or “” (default is “” <–> “LAN”)
NETWORK=”WLAN”

# Network interface name or address (e.g. “eth0″ or “00:0d:56:ec:ba:0c”)
IFACE=”wlan0″

# Static IP address (“” for DHCP) in CIDR format (e.g. “192.168.1.1/24″)
ADDRESS=””

# Network gateway (e.g. “192.168.1.254″)
GATEWAY=””

# List of DNS servers (e.g. “192.168.1.253 192.168.1.254″)
# This will override the DNS servers from DHCP
DNS_SERVER=””

SSID=”FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7360″

# “true” or “”
HIDDEN=”false”

# “WEP” or “PSK” or “” or “RSN”
SECURITY=”RSN”

PASSPHRASE=”<My WPA2 HEX code>”

# set to “” to disable NTP
TIMESERVERS=”0.geexbox.pool.ntp.org 1.geexbox.pool.ntp.org 2.geexbox.pool.ntp.o
rg 3.geexbox.pool.ntp.org”

# Services to be started at boot time
TELNET_SERVER=”true”
FTP_SERVER=”true”
HTTP_SERVER=”false”
SAMBA_SERVER=”false”

# Use Zeroconf service discovery
ZEROCONF=”true”

# Static Samba shares can be defined as shown in the commented examples below,
# where <%>,<@>,<&>,<#> field separators must be present as shown (Note that
# the password cannot contain  these special delimiters):

#STATIC_SMB=”username<%>password<@>ip<&>myservername<#>share1<#>share2<#>share3
”
#STATIC_SMB=”<%><@>ip<&>myservername<#>share1″

#WAIT_FOR_SLOW_DEVICE=”false”

 

 

[tomlohaveModerator]

Ok,

let me check,

I have pushed some changes to xbmc, now we use version 12.1 for panda too

I will retest wifi on panda

 

[tomlohaveModerator]

wifi works out of the box here.

cat /etc/network

# Network configuration# Backend software to use for network management (e.g. “connman”)

NETWORK_BACKEND=”udhcpc”

# “LAN” or “WLAN” or “” (default is “” <–> “LAN”)

NETWORK=”WLAN”

# Network interface name or address (e.g. “eth0″ or “00:0d:56:ec:ba:0c”)

IFACE=”wlan0″

# Static IP address (“” for DHCP) in CIDR format (e.g. “192.168.1.1/24″)

ADDRESS=””

# Network gateway (e.g. “192.168.1.254″)

GATEWAY=””

# List of DNS servers (e.g. “192.168.1.253 192.168.1.254″)

# This will override the DNS servers from DHCP

DNS_SERVER=””

SSID=”Livebox-0614″

# “true” or “”HIDDEN=””

# “WEP” or “PSK” or “” or “RSN”

SECURITY=”PSK”

PASSPHRASE=”my_key”

# set to “” to disable NTP

TIMESERVERS=”0.geexbox.pool.ntp.org 1.geexbox.pool.ntp.org 2.geexbox.pool.ntp.org 3.geexbox.pool.ntp.org”# Services to be started at boot time

TELNET_SERVER=true

FTP_SERVER=true

HTTP_SERVER=”false”

SAMBA_SERVER=”false”

# Use Zeroconf service discovery

ZEROCONF=”true”

# Static Samba shares can be defined as shown in the commented examples below,# where <%>,<@>,<&>,<#> field separators must be present as shown (Note that# the password cannot contain  these special delimiters):

#STATIC_SMB=”username<%>password<@>ip<&>myservername<#>share1<#>share2<#>share3″

#STATIC_SMB=”<%><@>ip<&>myservername<#>share1″WAIT_FOR_SLOW_DEVICE=”true”

iwconfig :

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:”Livebox-0614″
Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:19:70:92:75:AC
Bit Rate=65 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on
Link Quality=43/70  Signal level=-67 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:60   Missed beacon:0

eth0      no wireless extensions.

# ping http://www.google.fr -c2
PING http://www.google.fr (173.194.78.94): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 173.194.78.94: seq=0 ttl=47 time=29.084 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.78.94: seq=1 ttl=47 time=35.401 ms

— http://www.google.fr ping statistics —
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 29.084/32.242/35.401 ms

[tomlohaveModerator]

[   10.262084] wlan0: authenticate with 00:19:70:92:75:ac
[   10.277923] wlan0: send auth to 00:19:70:92:75:ac (try 1/3)
[   10.281249] wlan0: authenticated
[   10.283538] wlan0: associate with 00:19:70:92:75:ac (try 1/3)
[   10.287963] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:19:70:92:75:ac (capab=0×431 status=0 aid=2)
[   10.361724] wl12xx: Association completed.
[   10.386627] wlan0: associated

[uffeMember]

Thanks for all the information. It still does not work though, I’m afraid… My theory is that the wireless module is loaded too late. I see from your post that already at 10 seconds the connection is made. On my pandaboard it takes 40 seconds just to load it:

# [   40.555480] wl12xx: loaded

I have pandaboard rev A3 (not ES), can that make a difference?

[tomlohaveModerator]

Can you start net-udhcpc manually and post the results ?

 

[uffeMember]

I guess you mean “udhcpc”? This is what I get (last three rows are continuously repeated):

# udhcpc -i wlan0
udhcpc (v1.21.0.git) started
Sending discover…
udhcpc: sendto: Network is down
Read error: Network is down, reopening socket
Sending discover…
udhcpc: sendto: Network is down
Read error: Network is down, reopening socket

 

 

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