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USB to Wireless Dongle (Wifi) Support

Wireless_USB provides a approach for user to use the WIFI by adding a USB wireless dongle to the host (e.g. adsp-sc5xx board ) and the corresponding software configurations. This page describes how to use the USB Wireless (Wifi) feature on ADSP-sc5xx boards.

Using USB wireless Dongle in Linux:

Most of the USB Wireless Dongle need their own support drivers, and as the wireless driver in Linux kernel is to support the associated Wireless Network Chipset [e.g, Atheros/Qualcomm, Broadcom, Intel, Realtek] no mater which the manufacturer (e.g. A-Link, Dell, D-Link, Philips, TP-link) of the wireless card is, so we should make sure which chipset your device is using and enable/prepare the corresponding Linux drivers and Firmware first.

Identify & Confirm the Chipset

STEP1: Plug the USB Wireless Dongle into a Linux host PC and use the command “lsusb” to find the information of the device. 

test@madara:~# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 020: ID 2001:3306 D-Link Corp. DWL-G122 Wireless Adapter(rev.F1) [Realtek RTL8188SU]
Bus 002 Device 019: ID 0cf3:7015 Atheros Communications, Inc. TP-Link TL-WN821N v3 / TL-WN822N v2 802.11n [Atheros AR7010+AR9287]
Bus 002 Device 021: ID 0bda:818b Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8192EU 802.11b/g/n WLAN Adapter

From the visit Linux-USB site: ID 2001:3306 is the number given to this chipset, The number before: indicates the manufacture ID and number after : indicates device ID.

STEP2: Query the Wireless Chipset corresponding supported driver and firmware from Google or other ways, here are some quick reference:

Now we can get the information of the chipset and it corresponding drivers and Firmware:

ID 2001:3306
chipset: Realtek RTL8188SU
driver: rtl8172u.ko
firmware: lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin
ID 0cf3:7015
chipset: Atheros AR7010+AR9287
driver: ath9k.ko
firmware lib/firmware/ath9k_htc/htc_7010-1.4.0.fw
ID 0bda:818b
chipset:Realtek RTL8192EU 802.11b/g/n
driver: RTL8xxxEU.ko
firmware: lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192eu_nic.bin

Hardware Configuration

Connect the USB micro-A plug to A receptacle adaptor cable (found in the EZ-Board box) to the OTG port, below photo shows when it acts as Host and connected to a USB Wireless dongle device.

Software Configuration

On the Yocto, Configure the linux-kernel as below to set the USB controller in Host only mode, and enable the USB wireless relevant supported operations.

Configure the USB drivers to host mod or (dual role mode) 

Device Drivers  --->
       [*] USB support  --->
	        <*>   Support for Host-side USB
                [*]   Enable USB persist by default 
                <*>   Inventra Highspeed Dual Role Controller
                        MUSB Mode Selection (Dual role mode)  --->
                        *** Platform Glue Layer *** 
                <*>     ADI
                        *** MUSB DMA mode ***
                [N]     Disable DMA (always use PIO)  
                [*]       Inventra

dual role mode need the g_serial and CDC module 

Device Drivers  --->
       [*] USB support  --->
                <*>   USB Gadget Support  --->
                      <M>   USB Gadget precomposed configurations
                      <M>     Serial Gadget (with CDC ACM and CDC OBEX support) 
                      <M>     CDC Composite Device (Ethernet and ACM)

Configure the USB Wifi corresponding options 

[*] Networking support  --->
        Networking options --->
	        [*] TCP/IP networking 
		[*]   IP: kernel level autoconfiguration 
		[*]     IP: DHCP support  
		[*]     IP: BOOTP support
		[*]     IP: RARP support 
		<*>   The IPv6 protocol  ---> 
	[*]   Wireless  --->
		<*>   cfg80211 - wireless configuration API 
		[*]     cfg80211 wireless extensions compatibility  
		<*>   Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211) 
		[*]   Minstrel
	        [*]     Minstrel 802.11n support
		[*]       Minstrel 802.11ac support

Enable the Wireless Chipset supported Drivers

For the ID 2001:3306 chipset Realtek RTL8188SU 

Device Drivers  --->
       [*] Network device support  --->
              [*]   Wireless LAN  --->
                    [*]   Realtek devices
       [*] Staging drivers  --->
              <*>   RealTek RTL8712U (RTL8192SU) Wireless LAN NIC driver

For the ID 0cf3:7015 chipset: Atheros AltAR7010+AR9287

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Device Drivers  --->
       [*] Network device support  --->
              [*]   Wireless LAN  --->
                    [*]   Atheros/Qualcomm devices 
                    <*>     Atheros 802.11n wireless cards support
                    [*]     Atheros bluetooth coexistence support
                    [*]       Atheros ath9k AHB bus support
                    [*]       Atheros ath9k ACK timeout estimation algorithm (EXPERIMENTAL) 
                    [*]       Channel Context support 
                    [*]       Atheros ath9k support for PC OEM cards   
                    <*>     Atheros HTC based wireless cards support  
                    <*>     Linux Community AR9170 802.11n USB support 
                    [*]       SoftLED Support
 

For the ID 0bda:818b chipset rtl8188eu

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Device Drivers  --->
       [*] Network device support  --->
              [*]   Wireless LAN  --->
                    [*]   Realtek devices
                    <*>     RTL8723AU/RTL8188[CR]U/RTL819[12]CU (mac80211) support   
                    [*]       Include support for untested Realtek 8xxx USB devices (EXPERIMENTAL)
       [*] Staging drivers  --->
              <M>   Realtek RTL8188EU Wireless LAN NIC driver
	      [*]     Realtek RTL8188EU AP mode

Adding the corresponding Firmware

Standard Yocto layer provides a “sources/poky/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_git.bb” for user to get some common firmware. please modify and add the below codes to sources/meta-adi/meta-adi-adsp-sc5xx/recipes-adi/images/adsp-sc5xx-full.bb to enable the wpa-supplicant and wireless-tools tools and the chipset corresponding Firmware. 

USB_WIFI = " \
    wpa-supplicant \
    wireless-tools \
    linux-firmware-ath9k \
    linux-firmware-rtl8192su \
"
IMAGE_INSTALL += " \
    ${USB_WIFI} \
"

Add the additional Firmware:

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If we can't find the target chipset supported firmware from the linux-firmware_git.bb, we should write our own .bb file to fetch the corresponding Firmware or just adding it manually.

1. Manually fetch Firmware 

git clone https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vkoul/firmware
sudo cp -r firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192eu_nic.bin /romfs/lib/firmware/rtlwifi

Reference:

Busy box configuration 

bitbake busybox -c menuconfig
Coreutils  --->  
       [*] mktemp (4 kb) 
Networking Utilities  --->
       [*] Enable IPv6 support  
       [*] udhcpc
       [*]   Verify that the offered address is free, using ARP ping 
       [*]   Do not pass malformed host and domain names
       --- Common options for DHCP applets 
       (9) Maximum verbosity level (0..9)
       (80) DHCP options slack buffer size 
       [*] Support RFC 3397 domain search options
       [*] Support 802.1Q VLAN parameters options
       (-R -b) ifup udhcpc command line options

Example Usage

Boot the generated Images and connect the USB Wireless Dongle to the target hardware board:

Step1. USB Wireless Dongle Detected 

root@adsp-sc589-ezkit:~# modprobe g_serial      (USB Dual mode)
g_serial gadget: Gadget Serial v2.4
g_serial gadget: g_serial ready
usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using musb-hdrc
r8712u: register rtl8712_netdev_ops to netdev_ops
usb 1-1: r8712u: USB_SPEED_HIGH with 4 endpoints
usb 1-1: r8712u: Boot from EFUSE: Autoload OK
usb 1-1: r8712u: CustomerID = 0x0000
usb 1-1: r8712u: MAC Address from efuse = f0:7d:68:f1:3d:50
usb 1-1: r8712u: Loading firmware from "rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin"

Step2. Enable the wlan0 and Scan the available wifi host 

root@adsp-sc589-ezkit:~# ifconfig wlan0 up
r8712u 1-1:1.0 wlan0: 1 RCR=0x153f00e
r8712u 1-1:1.0 wlan0: 2 RCR=0x553f00e
IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
root@adsp-sc589-ezkit:~# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     unassociated  Nickname:"rtl_wifi"
          Mode:Auto  Access Point: Not-Associated   Sensitivity:0/0
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
root@adsp-sc589-ezkit:~# iwlist wlan0 scanning | grep ESSID
                    ESSID:"ADIWLAN"
                    ESSID:"ADIWLAN"
                    ESSID:"iPhone"
                    ESSID:"ADI-VISITOR"
                    ESSID:"corpave"
                    ESSID:"ChinaNet-7359"
                    ESSID:"ADI-VISITOR"

Step3. Connect the WIFI Router host via wpa_supplicant tool

Configure the /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf to add the name and password of the target Router host as below:

wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
update_config=1
 
network={
        key_mgmt=NONE
}
 
network={
        ssid="corpave"                          # name 
        psk="ADI12345"                          # password   
        key_mgmt=WPA-EAP WPA-PSK IEEE8021X NONE # way of encryption
        priority=1                              # priority    
}
 
network={
        ssid="iPhone"
        psk="12345678"
        key_mgmt=WPA-EAP WPA-PSK IEEE8021X NONE
        priority=2
        scan_ssid=1
}

Run the wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf to create the wireless establishment 

root@adsp-sc589-ezkit:~# wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
rfkill: Cannot get wiphy information
USHIPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
root@adsp-sc589-ezkit:~# iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"corpave"  Nickname:"rtl_wifi"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 14:D6:4D:32:3B:EA
          Bit Rate:150 Mb/s   Sensitivity:0/0
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:****-****-****-****-****-****-****-****   Security mode:open
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=100/100  Signal level=100/100  Noise level=0/100
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Step4. Dynamic IP acquisition with the udhcpc and Verification the wifi connection 

root@adsp-sc589-ezkit:~# udhcpc -i wlan0
udhcpc: started, v1.29.3
udhcpc: sending discover
udhcpc: sending select for 192.168.0.104
udhcpc: lease of 192.168.0.104 obtained, lease time 86400
/etc/udhcpc.d/50default: Adding DNS 192.168.0.1
root@adsp-sc589-ezkit:~# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr F0:7D:68:F1:3D:50
          inet addr:192.168.0.104  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::f27d:68ff:fef1:3d50/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:53 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:16072 (15.6 KiB)  TX bytes:8747 (8.5 KiB)
root@adsp-sc589-ezkit:~# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
default         10.99.24.1      0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
default         sqe-l12.ad.anal 0.0.0.0         UG    10     0        0 wlan0
10.99.24.0      *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 wlan0
root@adsp-sc589-ezkit:~# ping 192.168.0.1
PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.088 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.956 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.938 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.898 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.909 ms
^C
--- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.898/0.957/1.088 ms

Help of Command wpa_supplicant

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root@adsp-sc589-ezkit:~# wpa_supplicant -h
wpa_supplicant v2.6
Copyright (c) 2003-2016, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and contributors
 
This software may be distributed under the terms of the BSD license.
See README for more details.
 
usage:
  wpa_supplicant [-BddhKLqqtuvW] [-P<pid file>] [-g<global ctrl>] \
        [-G<group>] \
        -i<ifname> -c<config file> [-C<ctrl>] [-D<driver>] [-p<driver_param>] \
        [-b<br_ifname>] [-e<entropy file>] \
        [-o<override driver>] [-O<override ctrl>] \
        [-N -i<ifname> -c<conf> [-C<ctrl>] [-D<driver>] \
        [-p<driver_param>] [-b<br_ifname>] [-I<config file>] ...]
 
drivers:
  nl80211 = Linux nl80211/cfg80211
  wext = Linux wireless extensions (generic)
  hostap = Host AP driver (Intersil Prism2/2.5/3)
  wired = Wired Ethernet driver
options:
  -b = optional bridge interface name
  -B = run daemon in the background
  -c = Configuration file
  -C = ctrl_interface parameter (only used if -c is not)
  -d = increase debugging verbosity (-dd even more)
  -D = driver name (can be multiple drivers: nl80211,wext)
  -e = entropy file
  -g = global ctrl_interface
  -G = global ctrl_interface group
  -h = show this help text
  -i = interface name
  -I = additional configuration file
  -K = include keys (passwords, etc.) in debug output
  -L = show license (BSD)
  -N = start describing new interface
  -o = override driver parameter for new interfaces
  -O = override ctrl_interface parameter for new interfaces
  -p = driver parameters
  -P = PID file
  -q = decrease debugging verbosity (-qq even less)
  -t = include timestamp in debug messages
  -u = enable DBus control interface
  -v = show version
  -W = wait for a control interface monitor before starting
example:
  wpa_supplicant -Dnl80211 -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

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