I tried to build an unmodified carl9170fw firmware based on 1.9.0
tag.Unfortunately when dropping it in my /lib/firmware directory, I get
unsupported firmware when connecting my usb wifi device. If I used the
precompiled version based on the same tag, everything is working fine. Below is
the config I used to build the firmware. Any help to get this working would be
appreciated.
Best regards,
Chris
Running under Ubuntu 10.10, 32 bits: kernel 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP
Sat Oct 16 20:36:48 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
Installing the custom build firmware
-----------------------------------
$ sudo cp carlfw/carl9170.fw /lib/firmware/carl9170-1.fw
$ dmesg
[ 4414.555514] usb 2-1.2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address
23
[ 4414.771448] usb 2-1.2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address
23
[ 4414.902898] usb 2-1.2: unsupported firmware.
Installing the prebuilt version
-----------------------------
$ sudo cp ../carl9170fw-cur/carl9170-1.fw /lib/firmware/carl9170-1.fw
# dmesg -c
[ 3645.489335] usb 2-1.2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address
18
[ 3645.706236] usb 2-1.2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address
18
[ 3645.836634] usb 2-1.2: driver API: 1.8.8.3 2010-09-28 [1-1]
[ 3645.836643] usb 2-1.2: firmware API: 1.9.0 2010-10-12
Firmware build config
----------------------
$ ./autogen.sh
Configuring...
make: Entering directory `/data/data/dev/carl9170fw-1.9.0/config'
make: Nothing to be done for `config'.
make: Leaving directory `/data/data/dev/carl9170fw-1.9.0/config'
*
* CARL9170 Firmware Configuration
*
*
* General
*
Update/Generate new release/revision files (CARL9170FW_MAKE_RELEASE) [Y/n]
Major CARL9170 Firmware Revision (CARL9170FW_RELEASE_VERSION) [1]
*
* Selectable Hardware Options
*
Receiver Max. Frame Length
1. 4096 (CARL9170FW_RX_FRAME_LEN_4096)
> 2. 8192 (CARL9170FW_RX_FRAME_LEN_8192)
3. 16384 (CARL9170FW_RX_FRAME_LEN_16384)
4. 32768 (CARL9170FW_RX_FRAME_LEN_32768)
choice[1-4]:
Activate HW Watchdog (CARL9170FW_WATCHDOG) [Y/n/?]
GPIO Software Interrupt (CARL9170FW_GPIO_INTERRUPT) [Y/n/?]
Support Hardware Crypto Engine (CARL9170FW_SECURITY_ENGINE) [Y/n/?]
Enable Firmware-supported Radio/RF functions (CARL9170FW_RADIO_FUNCTIONS)
[Y/n/?]
*
* 802.11 Firmware Features
*
Handle BlockACK Requests in Firmware (CARL9170FW_HANDLE_BACK_REQ) [Y/n/?]
Number of max. active BlockACK Request (CARL9170FW_BACK_REQS_NUM) [4]
Support software-based Content after Beacon Queue (CARL9170FW_CAB_QUEUE) [Y/n/?]
*
* USB Firmware Configuration Settings
*
Basic USB Interface (CARL9170FW_USB_STANDARD_CMDS) [Y/n/?]
USB Interface Setup (CARL9170FW_USB_INIT_FIRMWARE) [Y/n/?]
USB Upload Stream (CARL9170FW_USB_UP_STREAM) [Y/n/?]
USB Download Stream (CARL9170FW_USB_DN_STREAM) [N/y]
Pass debug messages through USB transport (CARL9170FW_DEBUG_USB) [Y/n/?]
*
* Experimental, Unstable & Testing Extensions
*
Advanced printf (CARL9170FW_PRINTF) [Y/n/?]
Experimental Features (CARL9170FW_EXPERIMENTAL) [Y/n]
Firmware Supported Power-saving Management (CARL9170FW_PSM) [Y/n/?]
Delay and reorder TX (CARL9170FW_DELAYED_TX) [N/y/?]
Number of additional pseudo virtual interfaces (CARL9170FW_VIFS_NUM) [1]
Firmware MAC Chip recovery (CARL9170FW_FW_MAC_RESET) [Y/n]
Broken Featurs (CARL9170FW_BROKEN_FEATURES) [N/y]
TX / RX Path
> 1. Normal WLAN TX/RX routines (CARL9170FW_NORMAL_TX_RX)
choice[1]: 1
*
* Build Options
*
Enable aggressive size optimization (CARL9170FW_AGGRESSIVE_CFLAGS) [Y/n/?]
Build MiniBoot Firmware Header (CARL9170FW_BUILD_MINIBOOT) [Y/n]
*
* Firmware Tools
*
Build Firmware Tools (CARL9170FW_BUILD_TOOLS) [Y/n]
Build CARLU testbench (CARL9170FW_BUILD_TOOLS_CARLU) [N/y]
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/data/dev/carl9170fw-1.9.0
Compile time...
Scanning dependencies of target carl9170.elf
[ 4%] Building C object carlfw/CMakeFiles/carl9170.elf.dir/src/main.c.o
[ 8%] Building C object carlfw/CMakeFiles/carl9170.elf.dir/src/wlan.c.o
[ 12%] Building C object carlfw/CMakeFiles/carl9170.elf.dir/src/fw.c.o
[ 16%] Building C object carlfw/CMakeFiles/carl9170.elf.dir/src/gpio.c.o
[ 20%] Building C object carlfw/CMakeFiles/carl9170.elf.dir/src/cmd.c.o
[ 25%] Building C object carlfw/CMakeFiles/carl9170.elf.dir/src/uart.c.o
[ 29%] Building C object carlfw/CMakeFiles/carl9170.elf.dir/src/dma.c.o
[ 33%] Building C object carlfw/CMakeFiles/carl9170.elf.dir/src/hostif.c.o
[ 37%] Building C object carlfw/CMakeFiles/carl9170.elf.dir/src/printf.c.o
[ 41%] Building C object carlfw/CMakeFiles/carl9170.elf.dir/src/rf.c.o
[ 45%] Building C object carlfw/CMakeFiles/carl9170.elf.dir/src/cam.c.o
[ 50%] Building C object carlfw/CMakeFiles/carl9170.elf.dir/usb/main.c.o
[ 54%] Building C object carlfw/CMakeFiles/carl9170.elf.dir/usb/usb.c.o
[ 58%] Building C object carlfw/CMakeFiles/carl9170.elf.dir/usb/fifo.c.o
Linking C executable carl9170.elf
[ 75%] Built target carl9170.elf
[ 75%] Built target carl9170.dsc
[ 75%] Built target carl9170.fw
[ 79%] Built target miniboot.elf
[ 79%] Built target miniboot.fw
[ 83%] Built target carlfw
[ 87%] Built target checksum
[ 91%] Built target eeprom_fix
[ 95%] Built target fwinfo
[100%] Built target miniboot
$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i686-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu/Linaro
4.4.4-14ubuntu5' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.4/README.Bugs
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr
--program-suffix=-4.4 --enable-shared --enable-multiarch
--enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
--without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.4 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls
--with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-objc-gc
--enable-targets=all --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-tune=generic
--enable-checking=release --build=i686-linux-gnu --host=i686-linux-gnu
--target=i686-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.4.5 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu5)
$ cmake --version
cmake version 2.8.2
$ dpkg -l | grep libusb
ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-15ubuntu2
userspace USB programming library
ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.8-2
userspace USB programming library
ii libusbmuxd1 1.0.4-1 USB
multiplexor daemon for iPhone and iPod Touch devices - library
$ ls /usr/local/lib
libSDL-1.2.so.0 libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.3 libSDL.a libSDL.la libSDLmain.a
libSDL.so pkgconfig python2.6 python2.7
(SDL 1.2.14 installed)
$ flex -V
flex 2.5.35
$ bison --version
bison (GNU Bison) 2.4.1
Written by Robert Corbett and Richard Stallman.
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
$ gperf -v
GNU gperf 3.0.3
Copyright (C) 1989-1998, 2000-2004, 2006-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Douglas C. Schmidt and Bruno Haible.
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