Wifi not working after building customized image

aobs

@Caio-Mehlem Perhaps you are using the wrong tree. Try https://github.com/OnionIoT/source/tree/lede-17.01. "wifi-warp-core" should be in the config menu.

Caio Mehlem

@aobs , I was in the lede-17.01 branch, but I stupidly did not run the feed scripts... (I'm new to OpenWRT/LEDE/Buildroot so I'm still figuring out how things work).

I can now build the image correctly with wifi-warp-core, but only by cloning the repo @ https://github.com/OnionIoT/source (commit 564089f624f1eb47c20d1f4f8766f2383ce32ef9).

The Docker image is out of date AND did not compile correctly for me.
For some reason I had to manually change PKG_SOURCE_URL in libsoxr from git://git.code.sf.net/p/soxr/code to https//git.code.sf.net/p/soxr/code because git clone was failing! I'm running the compilation again but it didn't finish yet.

The image built without docker boots fine and connects to WiFi using wifi-warp-core (by entering WiFi info manually with wifisetup and selecting Type network info), but I still have the following problems:

hostname is Omega-0000, not sure how to make it use the MAC address as in the official build
Running wifisetup and trying to "Scan for Wifi networks" fails:

root@Omega-0000:/# wifisetup
Onion Omega Wifi Setup

Select from the following:
1) Scan for Wifi networks
2) Type network info
q) Exit

Selection: 1
Scanning for wifi networks...
Command failed: Not found
Failed to parse message data
WARNING: Variable 'results' does not exist or is not an array/object
> ERROR: Scan failed, try again

> ERROR: specified ssid not in the database
root@Omega-0000:/# [ 1017.277206] br-wlan: port 1(ra0) entered disabled state
[ 1017.959763] device ra0 left promiscuous mode
[ 1017.964266] br-wlan: port 1(ra0) entered disabled state
[ 1018.019989] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): br-wlan: link is not ready
[ 1018.375215] 
[ 1018.375215] _      _____   ___  ___    _________  ___  ____
[ 1018.375215] | | /| / / _ | / _ \/ _ \  / ___/ __ \/ _ \/ __/ V1.0
[ 1018.375215] | |/ |/ / __ |/ , _/ ___/ / /__/ /_/ / , _/ _/  
[ 1018.375215] |__/|__/_/ |_/_/|_/_/     \___/\____/_/|_/___/  
[ 1018.375215] 		   Onion Enhanced MT7688 WiFi Driver 
[ 1018.375215] 
[ 1018.527499] DMA Scheduler Mode=0(LMAC)
[ 1018.531374] efuse_probe: efuse = 10000012
[ 1018.535498] 1. Phy Mode = 14
[ 1018.711670] 2. Phy Mode = 14
[ 1018.714643] 3. Phy Mode = 14
[ 1018.717882] 	WTBL Segment 1 info:
[ 1018.721296] 		MemBaseAddr/FID:0x28000/0
[ 1018.725186] 		EntrySize/Cnt:32/128
[ 1018.728632] 	WTBL Segment 2 info:
[ 1018.732010] 		MemBaseAddr/FID:0x40000/0
[ 1018.735899] 		EntrySize/Cnt:64/128
[ 1018.739344] 	WTBL Segment 3 info:
[ 1018.742720] 		MemBaseAddr/FID:0x42000/64
[ 1018.746695] 		EntrySize/Cnt:64/128
[ 1018.750140] 	WTBL Segment 4 info:
[ 1018.753515] 		MemBaseAddr/FID:0x44000/128
[ 1018.757578] 		EntrySize/Cnt:32/128
[ 1026.936528] device ra0 entered promiscuous mode
[ 1026.941279] br-wlan: port 1(ra0) entered forwarding state
[ 1026.946860] br-wlan: port 1(ra0) entered forwarding state
[ 1026.952961] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): br-wlan: link becomes ready
[ 1028.941473] br-wlan: port 1(ra0) entered forwarding state
[ 1030.277136] Interface apcli0 link up! (WPA2PSK AES)
[ 1032.830996] da match,0x40a36bc073f5

opkg update fails:

root@Omega-0000:/# opkg update
Downloading http://repo.onion.io/omega2/packages/core/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/omega2_core
Downloading http://repo.onion.io/omega2/packages/core/Packages.sig
Signature check failed.
Remove wrong Signature file.
Downloading http://repo.onion.io/omega2/packages/base/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/omega2_base
Downloading http://repo.onion.io/omega2/packages/base/Packages.sig
Signature check failed.
Remove wrong Signature file.
Downloading http://repo.onion.io/omega2/packages/packages/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/omega2_packages
Downloading http://repo.onion.io/omega2/packages/packages/Packages.sig
Signature check failed.
Remove wrong Signature file.
Downloading http://repo.onion.io/omega2/packages/routing/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/omega2_routing
Downloading http://repo.onion.io/omega2/packages/routing/Packages.sig
Signature check failed.
Remove wrong Signature file.
Downloading http://repo.onion.io/omega2/packages/onion/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /var/opkg-lists/omega2_onion
Downloading http://repo.onion.io/omega2/packages/onion/Packages.sig
Signature check failed.
Remove wrong Signature file.

Anyone has ideas why I'm getting these problems?

Thank you!!

aobs

@Caio-Mehlem Try to use the packages in your image directories. My packages are under ~/source/bin/packages/mipsel_24kc & ~/source/bin/targets/ramips/mt7688/packages. Copy the packages you need to your Omega2 and install them with opkg.

Please check New omega2 boots with Omega-0000 AP and wont let me connect and see whether this can fix your problem.

Caio Mehlem

@aobs I'm quite new to Linux development and buildsystems, so sorry for the stupid questions... I realized there is a script to set the hostname which was not selected.

For the rest, I built a new image with a custom configuration loosely based on the one found at the Docker image (since copying the docker .config and running make oldconfig didn't work) and now everything seems to be working.

I still don't understand why Onion doesn't keep their official configuration at the repo's .config, it would make customization a lot easier since we could start from the official build and add/remove what we needed.

Lazar Demin

We do keep our official configuration in the .config file on Github.
However, when you run:

./scripts/feeds update -a
./scripts/feeds install -a

This will actually overwrite the .config and clear our settings.

My advice would be to run git checkout .config after running the feeds script, and you'll get all of our settings.

Caio Mehlem

@Lazar-Demin Sorry, my mistake! Thank you for clarifying this! Can you confirm that building this will result in the exact same image provided @ http://repo.onion.io/omega2/images/ ?

Thanks!

Lazar Demin

@Caio-Mehlem Yep, exactly

Nick Garner

Hi @Lazar-Demin ,
I'm happy to see that Onion has released Warp Core. We have a product shipping with Omega2 as Ethernet only because of the issues we ran into with WiFi. I'm playing around with building a custom image from the OnionIoT Repo.

Can you tell me, if you were to build a fresh image that would be posted to http://repo.onion.io/omega2/images/, after cloning the repo and running "./scripts/feeds update -a" , what "./scripts/feeds install xxx" commands would you execute? install -a?

The reason I ask is, with all packages installed, the make fails and I have to go disable something, then try again. Latest issue is with libs->telephony->libre missing a zlib dep. Remove libre and opensip fails. I know this isn't Onion's problem so I'm curious which packages you actually install for the prod releases of the Omega2 firmware.

Thank you,
Nick

Lazar Demin

@Nick-Garner
We run some commands to setup the environment, that you can see in our Dockerfile. It in turn, runs the onion-feed-setup.sh script to setup our feeds. We then rely on the build system configuration that's stored in .config.

If it seems that your build system configuration isn't matching the firmware that we build, it might be because when ./scripts/feeds is run, it overwrites the .config file. To remedy this, you can just run git checkout .config (assuming you're using our github repo or docker image).

As for packages failing to build, we've seen this happen as well but only when running our Docker image on a windows machine. If the Docker image is running on Linux or Mac, there's no issues. (Haven't had the cycles to figure out why it doesn't play nice with Windows)

Lee James

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