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Problem bringing up wlan0 interface up with mainline wl1271 drivers

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Hi,

On Dec 12, 2010, at 1:24 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:

>> When I build the TI WiLink drivers from the ti rowboat hardware/ti/wlan project
> 
> The linux-omap community can help you with mainline drivers, but no so
> much with proprietary ones. Why don't you use the upstream wl12xx
> driver ?

I've built linux kernel 2.6.37-rc6, and patched board-omap3beagle.c to interface with MMC2 SDIO controller, 
but I'm unable to bring the wlan0 interface up.

Here are the messages during kernel boot:

[    0.000000] wlan_mux_init: Configuring mux settings for wl1271 wlan module
[    0.077117] regulator: vwl1271: 1850 mV normal standby
[    2.171813] mmc1: mmc_rescan: trying to init card at 400000 Hz
[    2.323120] mmc1: card claims to support voltages below the defined range. These will be ignored.
[    2.368865] mmc1: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x91 (3 bytes)
[    2.392150] mmc1: new SDIO card at address 0001
[    2.787597] wl1271: loaded
[    2.790802] wl1271: initialized

# ifconfig -a
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          LOOPBACK  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

# ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address

What could the reason be?

Elvis Dowson
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