Turn WiFi Off and On - Gumstix

[Leif Zars]

I would like to second this request for guidance.

 

Leif Zars 

 

From: libertas-dev-bounces at lists.infradead.org
[mailto:libertas-dev-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Samuel
Rasmussen
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 7:35 PM
To: libertas-dev at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Turn WiFi Off and On - Gumstix

 

Hi,

I'm having a problem with wifi, and I was hoping someone on the list would
have a suggestion of how to fix it.

In Short:
I'm working on an embedded device that doesn't always have enough power to
turn on the wifi at boot up.  I need to be able to able to turn on wifi
after the device has already been on for a while.  The libertas driver works
great for initializing wifi at boot up.  When wifi is disabled on boot up,
the libertas driver is unable to initialize wifi once it's finally turned
on.

Details:
We're using Gumstix hardware with a TI OMAP730 processor running a Linux OS.
The Gumstix has a W2CBW003 wifi module.

 

Our goal is to power up our device with wifi disabled and be able to turn it
on whenever we want in the future.  It is simple to keep wifi from coming up
at boot time by not enabling the GPIO that powers the wifi module.  The
problem is trying to turn it on afterwards.  After the Gumstix is up and
running, I turn on the GPIO to enable wfi.  When this occurs, the Gumstix
only consumes a little more power (not nearly as much as when wifi is fully
up and running).  Next I modprobe the libertas_sdio driver, but the wifi
never starts working.  I've tried adding some debug to the Libertas code but
haven't yet found out what's going wrong.  It looks like mmc_attach_sdio()
and mmc_sdio_init_card are two of the first functions that get called for
initializing wfi. 

 

Does anyone have a suggestion for how to duplicate the initialization
process that occurs on boot up so wifi can be initialized at a later time?

 

Thanks for taking time to read this,

Samuel

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