Hi!

I see there is included some wifi drivers in the example image. I can not find out:

1. Do I need to "load" these drivers in any way? How does wifi/any drivers work in linux? Is it enough to put a .o or .ko file in this driver directory, and then it work, or do I have to put an insane long cryptic command in a autostart file somewhere?

2. How do I proceed if I want to add a new driver manually? Is there a standard way to run/register a driver, or is this up to the author of the driver?

I am totally new to linux in terminal, so i know litttle about how to do system commands in terminal. Please, if you have time and know, help me to understand how this works. I have found the dmesg to look for recognized devices, and a ftdi device (usb) i have, mount automatically to ttyusb0 i.e. 

BR

Benjamin Kruger

When it works, it works automatically under Linux: The PCI device is matched against drivers supported it, and that driver gets loaded during boot.

However, if you are using the last release, you may lack necessary firmware files for the wifi controller. The driver should complain about that on the kernel console, see UART or dmesg output. That's fixed in the development version on https://github.com/siemens/meta-iot2000. Or you transfer that file from some Linux distro or https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git onto your image under /lib/firmware.

Next, you will need to configure the interface under /etc/network/interfaces. See e.g. http://trac.gateworks.com/wiki/Yocto/Wireless.