TS-7990 yocto wifi
The Atmel driver needs to be loaded manually on units that include wifi. Run 'modprobe wilc3000' to manually load the driver once, or edit /etc/modules and add "wilc3000" on a new line to have the module automatically load on startup.
Yocto uses systemd to start wpa_supplicant, and systemd-networkd to set an IP address via a static setting or DHCP.
Scan for a network
ifconfig wlan0 up
# Scan for available networks
iwlist wlan0 scan
An example of connecting to an open network with an SSID of "default":
Cell 03 - Address: c0:ff:ee:c0:ff:ee Mode:Managed ESSID:"default" Channel:2 Encryption key:off Bit Rates:9 Mb/s
To connect to this open network manually for just this boot:
iwconfig wlan0 essid "default"
Use the 'iwconfig' command to determine authentication to an access point. Before connecting it will show something like this:
# iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"default" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.417 GHz Access Point: c0:ff:ee:c0:ff:ee Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-34 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
If connecting using WEP, also specify a network key:
iwconfig wlan0 essid "default" key "yourpassword"
If connecting to a WPA network use wpa_passphrase and wpa_supplicant:
mkdir /etc/wpa_supplicant/
wpa_passphrase "ssid name" "full passphrase" >> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-wlan0.conf
After generating the configuration file the wpa_supplicant daemon can be started.
wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-wlan0.conf -B
This will return:
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant root@ts-imx6-q:~# [ 306.924691] wlan0: authenticate with 28:cf:da:b0:f5:bb [ 306.959415] wlan0: send auth to 28:cf:da:b0:f5:bb (try 1/3) [ 306.968137] wlan0: authenticated [ 306.978477] wlan0: associate with 28:cf:da:b0:f5:bb (try 1/3) [ 306.988577] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 28:cf:da:b0:f5:bb (capab=0x1431 status=0 aid=9) [ 307.009751] wlan0: associated [ 307.012768] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready [ 307.047989] wlcore: Association completed.
Use 'iwconfig wlan0' to verify an "Access Point" is specified to verify a connection. This will also report the link quality to the AP.
Wireless may be associated, but this does not get an IP on the network. To connect to the internet or talk to the internal network first configure the interface. See configuring the network, but on many networks only a DHCP client is needed:
udhcpc -i wlan0
Systemd can also be configured to start wpa_supplicant on boot up.
# Assuming the same path for the wpa conf file as shown above
systemctl enable wpa_supplicant@wlan0
systemctl start wpa_supplicant@wlan0
Once this service is started it will bring up the wlan0 interface and associate it to the SSID that is noted in the wpa_supplicant.conf file. Configure the IP settings the same way as a wired network.
In /etc/systemd/network/wlan0.network
[Match]
Name=wlan0
[Network]
DHCP=yes
For a static configuration create a config file for that specific interface. /etc/systemd/network/wlan0.network
[Match]
Name=wlan0
[Network]
Address=192.168.0.50/24
Gateway=192.168.0.1
DNS=192.168.0.1
For more information on what options are available to configure the network, see the systemd network documentation.