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USB WLAN resource locking up in KERNEL

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Former Member over 12 years ago

Hi,

I have a bug that i am trying to fish out and pin point the root cause.

I have a WLAN device connected over USB-OTG that talks to the zedboard. I have a device driver installed on the Zedboard that loads the DUT as a WLAN device and if you type "ifconfig -a" you will see this device listed as "wlan0". If i run my program, which is hardcoded to use resource wlan0, x-number of times, after y-iterations (power cycling on -off- on), my wlan device gets locked in the kernel and wlan0 is stuck, thus not allowing me to reinitialize the device again.

Now, I am trying to determine whether this is a resource issue with my program, a specific kernel config option i compiled in, a jumper setting for USB on my Zed (which is currently JP3 open, JP2 closed), or a hardware limitation of the Zedboard.

From my understanding, USB-OTG needs the jumper settings at JP3 open and JP2 closed in order for the zedboard to act as the "host" and use the connected interface as a "device".

Has anyone ever witnessed this before? Anyone on the Zedboard design team have any hints or direction to choose first in order to troubleshoot this properly?

My kernel is Linux/arm 3.3.0-digilent-12.07-zed-beta.

Any help would be great!

Thanks.

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    0 zedhed over 12 years ago

    Hi pkaye,

    Are you doing something similar to what is seen in this post here?

    http://zedboard.org/content/howto-guide-using-usb-wifi-adapter-zedboard

    If so, the kernel referred to in this post is the Digilent Linux kernel for ZedBoard so you would need to contact Digilent if you needed further support than what the community can provide here.

    Regards,

    -Kevin

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    0 zedhed over 12 years ago

    Hi pkaye,

    Are you doing something similar to what is seen in this post here?

    http://zedboard.org/content/howto-guide-using-usb-wifi-adapter-zedboard

    If so, the kernel referred to in this post is the Digilent Linux kernel for ZedBoard so you would need to contact Digilent if you needed further support than what the community can provide here.

    Regards,

    -Kevin

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