784524 - Can't get wifi to work on self-built Otoro

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

On my otoro device, no matter what I do, I can't get wifi to work. When I tap the wi-fi checkbox, it unchecks itself, and since I enabled debug mode in wifi_worker.js, I get an error in my logcat:

WifiWorker component: WIFI: load_driver returned: -1

No errors happen at the same time in the device's dmesg.

Comment 1

[Andreas Gal :gal]

Did you upgrade the device to ICS and upgrade the kernel?

Comment 2

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

Yes to both.

Comment 3

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

And it works when I use a prebuilt otoro image.

Comment 4

[Andreas Gal :gal]

You have old GB executables in your build tree. Nuke the whole tree and extract new blobs.

Comment 5

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

Deleting out/ and gecko-objdir/ isn't enough, then?

Comment 6

[Dave Hylands [:dhylands]]

I started to see the "Tap the Wifi box and have it uncheck itself" behaviour.

I had pushed a wpa_supplicant.conf file because I got tired of having to reenter the password every time I reflashed the board.

In my case the wpa_supplicant.conf file was owned by root.root after doing the adb push. Changing the permissions on this file (or removing the wpa_supplicant.conf file) and rebooting allowed wifi to start working again.

Comment 7

[Andreas Gal :gal]

No. I think the binary blobs are stored outside out/ and gecko-objdir/. Blow away everything, start over, to confirm that this is the cause. Comment 6 sounds useful too.

Comment 8

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

Yup, this was simple bad drivers.