[fedora-arm] Pandaboard: Wifi

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Julian Leyh <julian at vgai.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i just received my Pandaboard and put the Fedora image onto the SD-Card.
>
> The wifi didn't work, because the firmware images weren't present.
>
> After performing an update, the firmware images were there, and they
> loaded fine, but rebooting the new kernel made the interfaces
> dissappear, because the driver modules (wl12xx & co) were missing.
>
> Is there a reason the modules are not included in the new kernel (3.5
> vs 3.4 before update)? Do I have to compile my own kernel, or will
> this be changed again?

Use the 3.4.x kernels. The 3.5 kernels need more work. The
3.4.6-2.fc17.armv7hl.omap works OK for the wireless, at least it loads
and I can see APs. I'll be looking closer at the 3.5 kernel over the
weekend.

Peter