Zipit Z2 wireless issues

[d4z]

I am having issues with using my Zipit's wifi.

The wifi was working after copying the gspi8686.bin and gspi8686_hlp.bin to /lib/firmware/libertas and rebooting, but for some reason refuses to work now.

Running ifconfig only shows the loopback, and ifconfig eth1 up gives the error "eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device"

I ran dmesg and got the following, which shows that there's something wrong with libertas.

I'm not all that sure what to do to fix this. If anyone could give me a hand, I would really appreciate it!

Output of dmesg:

Linux version 2.6.29

(aliosa27@the-oracle) (gcc

version 4.3.3 (GCC) ) #1 Sat Sep

12 13:15:44 CDT 2009 CPU:

XScale-PXA270 [69054117]

revision 7 (ARMv5TE),

cr=0000397f CPU: VIVT data

cache, VIVT instruction cache

Machine: Zipit Z2 Memory policy:

ECC disabled, Data cache

writeback On node 0 totalpages:

8192 free_area_init_node: node

0, pgdat c035e7ac, node_mem_map

c0397000

Normal zone: 64 pages used for

memmap

Normal zone: 0 pages reserved

Normal zone: 8128 pages, LIFO

batch:0 Run Mode clock:

208.00MHz (*16) Turbo Mode

clock: 312.00MHz (*1.5, active)

Memory clock: 104.00MHz (/2)

System bus clock: 104.00MHz

Built 1 zonelists in Zone order,

mobility grouping on. Total

pages: 8128 Kernel command line:

console=ttyS2,115200

root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootdelay=2

fbcon=rotate:3 debug PID hash

table entries: 128 (order: 7,

512 bytes) Console: colour dummy

device 80x30 Dentry cache hash

table entries: 4096 (order: 2,

16384 bytes) Inode-cache hash

table entries: 2048 (order: 1,

8192 bytes) Memory: 32MB = 32MB

total Memory: 28808KB available

(3108K code, 351K data, 176K

init) Calibrating delay loop...

311.29 BogoMIPS (lpj=1556480)

Mount-cache hash table entries:

512 CPU: Testing write buffer

coherency: ok net_namespace: 300

bytes NET: Registered protocol

family 16 bio: create slab

<bio-0> at 0 I2C: i2c-0: PXA I2C

adapter Switched to high

resolution mode on CPU 0 NET:

Registered protocol family 2 IP

route cache hash table entries:

1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) TCP

established hash table entries:

1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) TCP

bind hash table entries: 1024

(order: 0, 4096 bytes) TCP: Hash

tables configured (established

1024 bind 1024) TCP reno

registered NET: Registered

protocol family 1 PXA CPU 27x

max frequency not defined

(pxa27x_maxfreq), assuming

pxa271 with 416000kHz maxfreq

PXA CPU frequency change support

initialized audit: initializing

netlink socket (disabled)

type=2000 audit(0.330:1):

initialized VFS: Disk quotas

dquot_6.5.2 Dquot-cache hash

table entries: 1024 (order 0,

4096 bytes) JFFS2 version 2.2.

(NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat,

Inc. alg: No test for stdrng

(krng) io scheduler noop

registered io scheduler

anticipatory registered io

scheduler deadline registered io

scheduler cfq registered

(default) pxa2xx-fb pxa2xx-fb:

machine LCCR3 setting contains

illegal bits: 04300000 pxa2xx-fb

pxa2xx-fb: Double Pixel Data

(DPD) mode is only valid in

passive mono single panel mode

Console: switching to colour

frame buffer device 40x30

pxa2xx-uart.0: ttyS0 at MMIO

0x40100000 (irq = 22) is a

FFUART pxa2xx-uart.1: ttyS1 at

MMIO 0x40200000 (irq = 21) is a

BTUART pxa2xx-uart.2: ttyS2 at

MMIO 0x40700000 (irq = 20) is a

STUART console [ttyS2] enabled

brd: module loaded Probing

processor-flash at physical

address 0x00000000 (16-bit

bankwidth) processor-flash:

Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in

16-bit bank processor-flash:

Found an alias at 0x800000 for

the chip at 0x0 processor-flash:

Found an alias at 0x1000000 for

the chip at 0x0 processor-flash:

Found an alias at 0x1800000 for

the chip at 0x0 processor-flash:

Found an alias at 0x2000000 for

the chip at 0x0 processor-flash:

Found an alias at 0x2800000 for

the chip at 0x0 processor-flash:

Found an alias at 0x3000000 for

the chip at 0x0 processor-flash:

Found an alias at 0x3800000 for

the chip at 0x0

Intel/Sharp Extended Query

Table at 0x0039

Intel/Sharp Extended Query

Table at 0x0039

Intel/Sharp Extended Query

Table at 0x0039

Intel/Sharp Extended Query

Table at 0x0039

Intel/Sharp Extended Query

Table at 0x0039 Using

auto-unlock on power-up/resume

cfi_cmdset_0001: Erase suspend

on write enabled erase region 0:

offset=0x0,size=0x2000,blocks=8

erase region 1:

offset=0x10000,size=0x10000,blocks=127

processor-flash: 1 set(s) of 1

interleaved chips --> 16

partitions of 512 KiB RedBoot

partition parsing not available

cmdlinepart partition parsing

not available Creating 3 MTD

partitions on "processor-flash":

0x000000000000-0x000000010000 :

"Bootloader"

0x000000010000-0x000000240000 :

"Kernel"

0x000000240000-0x000000800000 :

"Filesystem" spi spi1.0: in

setup: DMA burst size reduced to

match bits_per_word mice: PS/2

mouse device common for all mice

input: pxa27x-keypad as

/devices/platform/pxa27x-keypad/input/input0

input: gpio-keys as

/devices/platform/gpio-keys.0/input/input1

pxa-rtc pxa-rtc: rtc core:

registered pxa-rtc as rtc0 i2c

/dev entries driver APM Battery

Driver SA1100/PXA2xx Watchdog

Timer: timer margin 60 sec

z2_mci_setpower: on

z2_mci_setpower: on Registered

led device: z2:green:mmc

Registered led device:

z2:green:charge TCP cubic

registered NET: Registered

protocol family 17 RPC:

Registered udp transport module.

RPC: Registered tcp transport

module. XScale iWMMXt

coprocessor detected. pxa-rtc

pxa-rtc: setting system clock to

2000-01-01 00:00:05 UTC

(946684805) Waiting 2sec before

mounting root device... mmc0:

SCR structure version 0 mmc0:

host does not support reading

read-only switch. assuming

write-enable. mmc0: new SD card

at address 1234 mmcblk0:

mmc0:1234 SA02G 1.83 GiB

mmcblk0: p1 p2 p3 mmcblk0: p2

size 391104 limited to end of

disk mmcblk0: p3 ignored, start

3907008 is behind the end of the

disk VFS: Mounted root (ext2

filesystem) on device 179:1.

Freeing init memory: 176K

pxa27x_udc: version 2008-04-18

lib80211: common routines for

IEEE802.11 drivers

lib80211_crypt: registered

algorithm 'NULL' libertas_spi:

Libertas SPI driver In z2 SPI

setup libertas: Can't read bus

mode register. libertas_spi:

probe of spi1.0 failed with

error -5 Swap area shorter than

signature indicates No device

for DAI WM8750 WM8750 Audio

Codec 0.12<6>asoc: WM8750 <->

pxa2xx-i2s mapping ok Swap area

shorter than signature indicates

libertas_spi: Libertas SPI

driver In z2 SPI setup libertas:

Can't read bus mode register.

libertas_spi: probe of spi1.0

failed with error -5

[altometer]

Seeing as how your post comes up in the google results, I thought I'd add how I fixed this. Make sure there is a swap partition bigger than 128MB on your card. I made a 512MB because I am using it as a (really slow) minecraft server. then, if you are running ubuntu...

#iwconfig eth0 essid your_id_here
#iwconfig eth0 key your_hex_key_here
#ifconfig eth0 down
#ifconfig eth0 up
#dhclient eth0