Action Item #817
closed
Test pinet against broadcom wifi
Added by Hammel almost 4 years ago.
Updated over 3 years ago.
Description
pinet does not need dual mode capability. Dual mode - AP + client - may or may not work with the builtin broadcom wifi on RPi3 and RPi Zero. However, pinet should work with this because it switches from client to AP and back, never running both at the same time.
I need to test that the wifi works with this.
Then I need to test if throughput is any better with this than with a dongle.
- Severity changed from 03 - Medium to 01 - Critical
- Status changed from New to In Progress
- % Done changed from 0 to 10
The firmware requested seems to be the same as before, but there is this message in dmesg:
[ 4.759269] brcmfmac mmc1:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.raspberrypi,3-model-b.txt failed with error -2
That file is not being copied into the firmware tree. So I should add that to kfw.cfg. Also, the kernel firmware has the files we need so I don't need to download them via fw.cfg.
Finally, the updated firmware blob appears to be for a 3b+ while I'm testing with a 3b. So I don't really need the update now, though I should include all the appropriate firmware for Raspberry Pi wifi/bluetooth. At the moment I cannot find a definitive list of the firmware blobs specific to the RPi.
- Status changed from In Progress to Closed
- % Done changed from 10 to 100
Added missing .txt files and tested on touchscreen. Works much better. No need for dongle on non-ironman systems now.
Changes tested, committed and pushed.
Closing issue.
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