Hello, I've tried compiling a 3.4.90+ kernel with the patches included on this page: http://linux-sunxi.org/Cubietruck/AP6210

The kernel boots fine, all the modules work fine... except for the AP6210 module.

When I try to modprobe it, I get this error:

~ # modprobe -v ap6210
insmod /lib/modules/3.4.90+/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ap6210/ap6210.ko
ERROR: could not insert 'ap6210': Operation not permitted

Here is what dmesg has to say about the problem: http://pastie.org/pastes/9287752/text?key=dx5htwslbdyipajy5mbfqa

I see some interesting lines in that dmesg log:

[   56.313236] [ap6210] select wifi ap6210
[   56.324039] [ap6210] Initializing ap6210.
[   56.337317] [ap6210] platform device registered successfully.
[   56.352059] [ap6210] Using ap6210 configuration.
[   56.363222] [ap6210] [dhd_module_init] get wl_host_wake gpio failed
[   58.082059] [ap6210] select wifi ap6210

Maybe it's a GPIO error? My script.bin looks fine (it's the default one), so I'm not sure what it could be.

More information here: http://www.cubieforums.com/index.php?topic=2668.msg17482#msg17482

I managed to patch my sources and also try yours. My compilers v4.6 and 4.8 outputs this error: cc1: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-fno-aggressive-loop-optimizations’

Which compiler do you use?

Hi, Eddy,

Thanks for the driver and which I tried hard to leverage :) , during progress, I eventually can insert the ap6210, but some confusing thing is when mod loaded, and I tried 'sudo ifconfig wlan0 up', after some 'normal log' and then after the firmware & nvram downloaded, I got error ..

cubie@Cubian:~$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
[sudo] password for cubie:
<3>[ap6210] Dongle Host Driver, version 1.28.23.3 (r).
<3>[ap6210] Compiled in drivers/net/wireless/ap6210 on Dec 17 2014 at 20:49:27.
<3>[ap6210] WLAN going back to live
sdio_reset_comm():
<6>[mmc-msg] sdc3 set ios: clk 50000000Hz bm PP pm ON vdd 3.3V width 4 timing SD-HS(SDR25) dt B
<6>[mmc-msg] sdc3 set ios: clk 50000000Hz bm PP pm ON vdd 3.3V width 4 timing SD-HS(SDR25) dt B
<6>[mmc-msg] sdc3 set ios: clk 400000Hz bm PP pm ON vdd 3.3V width 4 timing SD-HS(SDR25) dt B
<6>[mmc-msg] sdc3 set round clock 400000, src 24000000
<6>[mmc-msg] sdc3 set ios: clk 400000Hz bm PP pm ON vdd 3.3V width 4 timing SD-HS(SDR25) dt B
<4>mmc2: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (2 bytes)
<4>mmc2: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (3 bytes)
<4>mmc2: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (3 bytes)
<4>mmc2: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (7 bytes)
<6>[mmc-msg] sdc3 set ios: clk 400000Hz bm PP pm ON vdd 3.3V width 4 timing SD-HS(SDR25) dt B
<6>[mmc-msg] sdc3 set ios: clk 50000000Hz bm PP pm ON vdd 3.3V width 4 timing SD-HS(SDR25) dt B
<6>[mmc-msg] sdc3 set round clock 43636363, src 480000000
<6>[mmc-msg] sdc3 set ios: clk 50000000Hz bm PP pm ON vdd 3.3V width 4 timing SD-HS(SDR25) dt B
<3>[ap6210] dhd_bus_devreset: WLAN ON
<3>[ap6210] Final fw_path=/lib/firmware/ap6210/fw_bcm40181a2.bin
<3>[ap6210] Final nv_path=/lib/firmware/ap6210/nvram_ap6210.txt
<3>[ap6210] download firmware /lib/firmware/ap6210/fw_bcm40181a2.bin
<3>[ap6210] dhd_bus_devreset: dhd_bus_start fail with -5
<3>[ap6210] dhd_dev_reset: dhd_bus_devreset: -5
<4>[sched_delayed] sched: RT throttling activated
<3>[ap6210] dhdcdc_set_ioctl: dhdcdc_msg failed w/status -5
<3>[ap6210] bcmsdh_sdmmc: F0 Wr:0x04: write disallowed
<3>[ap6210] dhd_bus_devreset: WLAN OFF DONE
<3>[ap6210] WLAN placed in RESET
<3>[ap6210] dhd_open: failed with code -5
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not permitted

But most strange thing is , if I immediately do it again, then it show some OK status like:

cubie@Cubian:~$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
<3>[ap6210] Dongle Host Driver, version 1.28.23.3 (r).
<3>[ap6210] Compiled in drivers/net/wireless/ap6210 on Dec 17 2014 at 20:49:27.
<3>[ap6210] WLAN going back to live
sdio_reset_comm():
<6>[mmc-msg] sdc3 set ios: clk 50000000Hz bm PP pm ON vdd 3.3V width 4 timing SD-HS(SDR25) dt B
<6>[mmc-msg] sdc3 set ios: clk 50000000Hz bm PP pm ON vdd 3.3V width 4 timing SD-HS(SDR25) dt B
<6>[mmc-msg] sdc3 set ios: clk 400000Hz bm PP pm ON vdd 3.3V width 4 timing SD-HS(SDR25) dt B
<6>[mmc-msg] sdc3 set round clock 400000, src 24000000
<6>[mmc-msg] sdc3 set ios: clk 400000Hz bm PP pm ON vdd 3.3V width 4 timing SD-HS(SDR25) dt B
<4>mmc2: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (2 bytes)
<4>mmc2: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (3 bytes)
<4>mmc2: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (3 bytes)
<4>mmc2: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (7 bytes)
<6>[mmc-msg] sdc3 set ios: clk 400000Hz bm PP pm ON vdd 3.3V width 4 timing SD-HS(SDR25) dt B
<6>[mmc-msg] sdc3 set ios: clk 50000000Hz bm PP pm ON vdd 3.3V width 4 timing SD-HS(SDR25) dt B
<6>[mmc-msg] sdc3 set round clock 43636363, src 480000000
<6>[mmc-msg] sdc3 set ios: clk 50000000Hz bm PP pm ON vdd 3.3V width 4 timing SD-HS(SDR25) dt B
<3>[ap6210] dhd_bus_devreset: WLAN ON
<3>[ap6210] Final fw_path=/lib/firmware/ap6210/fw_bcm40181a2.bin
<3>[ap6210] Final nv_path=/lib/firmware/ap6210/nvram_ap6210.txt
<3>[ap6210] download firmware /lib/firmware/ap6210/fw_bcm40181a2.bin
<3>[ap6210] dhd_bus_devreset: WLAN ON DONE
<3>[ap6210] Dongle ready, protocol version 4
<3>[ap6210] Dongle ready, protocol version 4
<3>[ap6210] Firmware up: op_mode=0x0005, Broadcom Dongle Host Driver mac=98:3b:16:de:c6:fe
<3>[ap6210] Firmware version = wl0: Apr 22 2013 14:50:00 version 5.90.195.89.6 FWID 01-b30a427d
<3>[ap6210] Chip: a962 Rev 1 Pkg 9<3>[ap6210] p2p0: p2p_dev_addr=9a:3b:16:de:c6:fe

and I can check as

cubie@Cubian:~$ ifconfig
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 98:3b:16:de:c6:fe
inet6 addr: fe80::9a3b:16ff:fede:c6fe/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:3107 (3.0 KiB)

but I know there must be something wrong.. and then try to scan and it can't work:

cubie@Cubian:~$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

I tried to seek any clues online, but never found similar situation, and do you have any rough idea can guide me some direction?

Thanks!

BR, Claud

Hello,
I'm trying to compile the driver for A10/sun4i, it stops at
CLK_SYS_LOSC , CLK_MOD_OUTA , both being undeclared.
Looking at sun4i clock definitions I replaced CLK_SYS_LOSC with AW_SYS_CLK_LOSC, but I don't know what to replace CLK_MOD_OUTA with?
Any help is appreciated

Is this driver supposed to support the bluetooth part? I can make the wifi work, but not the bluetooth.

• am I supposed to use the "brcm_patchram" firmware download after I load the module as mentioned here: http://linux-sunxi.org/Cubietruck/Bluetooth (it is not working and only shows "writing
  01 03 0c 00", if I try)
• dmesg looks ok, if I load the ap6210 module. It also shows the "platform device registered successfully.\n" of line 141 of ap6210_gpio_bt.c and /sys/devices/platform/sunxi-rfkill.0 is created
• hciattach or btattach /dev/ttyS1 any kind of create an empty device with an empty mac, that cannot be addressed and I get "Bluetooth: hci0 command tx timeout" in the syslog
• I do have the "sunxi-rfkill" in and two mmc devices in the /sys/class/rfkill tree, but no hci/uart/ttyS1 reference (which I should, but probably only after I attache the device successfully)