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README file for the meta-wandboard-ap layer
This layer turns the Wandboard Dual or Quad into a wireless access point.
Depends on:
- poky (Daisy or higher)
- meta-fsl-arm
- meta-fsl-arm-extra (Daisy or higher, 3.10.17 kernel)
Instructions:
- Clone this layer into sources subdirectory
- Checkout the branch corresponding to the Yocto version used in your
other layers. (e.g. git checkout daisy when working with the daisy
stable branch)
- Add layer to BBLAYERS in build/conf/bblayers.conf:
Example:
BBLAYERS = " \
${BSPDIR}/sources/poky/meta \
${BSPDIR}/sources/poky/meta-yocto \
\
${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-openembedded/meta-oe \
\
${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-fsl-arm \
${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-fsl-arm-extra \
${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-fsl-demos \
${BSPDIR}/sources/meta-wandboard-ap \ <---- ADD LINE HERE
"
- Build a base or test image:
$ bitbake wandboard-ap-image-base
-or-
$ bitbake wandboard-ap-image-test (adds some performance test utilities)
- The Wandboard should be visible with an essid of "wandboard". The default
passphrase is "wandboard"
NOTE: if you want to change these, then grep through the recipe files and
make modifications.
Performance Tests:
- Tested on Wandboard Dual and Quad using the iperf througput test with between
17 and 21 Mbps throughput depending on the test.
TODO:
- Eliminate the need for special firmware to enable AP mode. Ideally this
would be part of the base linux-firmware package.
- Performance improvements.
NOTES:
- By default, this will cause the Wandboard to NOT work in STA (client) mode
due to an incompatiblity between the firmware and the driver/kernel.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Thanks to Scott Ellis (meta-pansenti) for the hostap-daemon-2.0 recipe. This
was very helpful, and to CruX for blazing the path by showing how to set up
a working system. And thanks to Otavio for general Yocto assistance.