Hi,

I am also facing the same problem. How can one know whether to use
Android private socket or Unix standard socket?

Thank you.


On Feb 18, 11:55 pm, bala krishnan <jjb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>    This is error is resolved by using *Android private socket *instead of 
> *Unix
> standard socket **Unix standard socket *in wpa_supplicant . I got more info
> from this link
>
> http://blog.linuxconsulting.ro/2010/04/porting-wifi-drivers-to-androi...
>
> Thanks
> J.Balakrishnan
> * *
>
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:47 PM, bala krishnan <jjb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    I am porting sd8688 wifi module to froyo on pxa3xx based board. While
> > selecting option Wi-Fi from "Wireless & networks" in Android, the driver &
> > firmare is loaded well after that this option got deselected with error.
>
> >    While looking on the external/wpa_supplicant package, I have doubt with
> > following piece of code from wpa_ctrl_open(const char *ctrl_path) which
> > belongs to wpa_ctrl.c file
>
> >  if (connect(ctrl->s, (struct sockaddr *) &ctrl->dest,
> >                     sizeof(ctrl->dest)) < 0) {
> >                 close(ctrl->s);
> >                 unlink(ctrl->local.sun_path);
> >                 os_free(ctrl);
> >                 LOGE("wpa_ctrl_open (5)");
> >                 return NULL;
> >         }
>
> > logcat details
> > =============
> > [  189.508299] calling  lbs_init_module+0x0/0xdc [libertas] @ 861
> > [  189.514760] initcall lbs_init_module+0x0/0xdc [libertas] returned 0
> > after 8 usecs
> > [  190.076393] calling  if_sdio_init_module+0x0/0x10c [libertas_sdio] @ 861
> > [  190.083400] libertas_sdio: Libertas SDIO driver
> > [  190.087904] libertas_sdio: Copyright Pierre Ossman
> > [  190.094414] libertas_sdio mmc1:0001:1: firmware: requesting
> > sd8688_helper.bin
> > [  190.170002] init: untracked pid 1072 exited
> > [  190.202575] libertas_sdio mmc1:0001:1: firmware: requesting sd8688.bin
> > [  190.548485] init: untracked pid 1075 exited
> > [  191.529540] libertas: 00:27:13:82:f5:d2, fw 10.38.1p25, cap 0x00000303
> > [  191.551094] libertas: wlan0: Marvell WLAN 802.11 adapter
> > [  191.560391] initcall if_sdio_init_module+0x0/0x10c [libertas_sdio]
> > returned 0 after 1442302 usecs
> > D/Tethering(  828): wlan0 is not a tetherable iface, ignoring
> > D/skia    (  828): purging 149K from font cache [18 entries]
> > D/dalvikvm(  828): GC_EXPLICIT freed 1956 objects / 154824 bytes in 124ms
> > D/WifiService(  828): ACTION_BATTERY_CHANGED pluggedType: 0
> > E/Wpa_supplicant_code(  828): wpa_ctrl_open
> > (3)ctrl_path=/data/system/wpa_supplicant/wlan0
> > E/Wpa_supplicant_code(  828): wpa_ctrl_open
> > (5)dest.sun_path=/data/system/wpa_supplicant/wlan0
> > sizeof(ctrl->dest.sun_path)=108 ctrl_path=/data/system/wpa_supplicant/wlan0
> > E/Wpa_supplicant_code(  828): wpa_ctrl_open (6)ctrl->s=16 &ctrl->dest=c05b2
> > sizeof(ctrl->dest)=110
> > E/Wpa_supplicant_code(  828): wpa_ctrl_open (5)
> > *E/WifiHW  (  828): Unable to open connection to supplicant on
> > "/data/system/wpa_supplicant/wlan0": No such file or directory*
> > E/wpa_supplicant( 1082): Failed to initialize control interface
> > 'DIR=/data/system/wpa_supplicant GROUP=system'.
> > E/wpa_supplicant( 1082): You may have another wpa_supplicant process
> > already running or the file was
> > E/wpa_supplicant( 1082): left by an unclean termination of wpa_supplicant
> > in which case you will need
> > E/wpa_supplicant( 1082): to manually remove this file before starting
> > wpa_supplicant again.
> > I/wpa_supplicant( 1082): CTRL-EVENT-STATE-CHANGE id=-1 state=0
> > [  197.630222] pxa2xx-mci pxa2xx-mci.0: unable to stop clock
> > E/wpa_supplicant( 1088): Failed to initialize control interface
> > 'DIR=/data/system/wpa_supplicant GROUP=system'.
> > E/wpa_supplicant( 1088): You may have another wpa_supplicant process
> > already running or the file was
> > E/wpa_supplicant( 1088): left by an unclean termination of wpa_supplicant
> > in which case you will need
> > E/wpa_supplicant( 1088): to manually remove this file before starting
> > wpa_supplicant again.
> > I/wpa_supplicant( 1088): CTRL-EVENT-STATE-CHANGE id=-1 state=0
> > E/WifiHW  (  828): Supplicant not running, cannot connect
> > D/skia    (  895): purging 72K from font cache [10 entries]
> > D/dalvikvm(  895): GC_EXPLICIT freed 9869 objects / 476880 bytes in 180ms
> > E/wpa_supplicant( 1091): Failed to initialize control interface
> > 'DIR=/data/system/wpa_supplicant GROUP=system'.
> > E/wpa_supplicant( 1091): You may have another wpa_supplicant process
> > already running or the file was
> > E/wpa_supplicant( 1091): left by an unclean termination of wpa_supplicant
> > in which case you will need
> > E/wpa_supplicant( 1091): to manually remove this file before starting
> > wpa_supplicant again.
> > I/wpa_supplicant( 1091): CTRL-EVENT-STATE-CHANGE id=-1 state=0
> > E/WifiHW  (  828): Supplicant not running, cannot connect
> > E/wpa_supplicant( 1094): Failed to initialize control interface
> > 'DIR=/data/system/wpa_supplicant GROUP=system'.
> > E/wpa_supplicant( 1094): You may have another wpa_supplicant process
> > already running or the file was
> > E/wpa_supplicant( 1094): left by an unclean termination of wpa_supplicant
> > in which case you will need
> > E/wpa_supplicant( 1094): to manually remove this file before starting
> > wpa_supplicant again.
> > I/wpa_supplicant( 1094): CTRL-EVENT-STATE-CHANGE id=-1 state=0
> > E/WifiHW  (  828): Supplicant not running, cannot connect
> > V/WifiStateTracker(  828): Supplicant died unexpectedly
> > D/WifiStateTracker(  828): Reset connections and stopping DHCP
> > D/WifiStateTracker(  828): Disabling interface
> > D/NetworkStateTracker(  828): setDetailed state, old =IDLE and new
> > state=DISCONNECTED
> > D/ConnectivityService(  828): ConnectivityChange for WIFI:
> > DISCONNECTED/DISCONNECTED
> > D/ConnectivityService(  828): getMobileDataEnabled returning true
> > D/WifiStateTracker(  828): Reset connections and stopping DHCP
> > D/DataConnectionTracker(  891): enableApnType(default), isApnTypeActive =
> > false and state = IDLE
> > D/DataConnectionTracker(  891): type not available
> > D/Tethering(  828): Tethering got CONNECTIVITY_ACTION
> > I/ActivityManager(  828): Start proc android.process.media for broadcast
> > com.android.providers.downloads/.DownloadReceiver: pid=1097 uid=10009
> > gids={1015, 2001, 3003}
> > D/Tethering(  828): MasterInitialState.processMessage what=3
> > E/HierarchicalStateMachine(  828): TetherMaster - unhandledMessage:
> > msg.what=3
> > D/WifiStateTracker(  828): Disabling interface
>
> > init.rc
> > =======
> >     mkdir /data/misc/wifi 0770 wifi system
> >     chown wifi system /data/misc/wifi
> >     touch /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
> >     chmod 0660 /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
> >     chown wifi system /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
> >     mkdir /data/misc/wifi/sockets 0771 wifi system
> >     chown wifi system /data/misc/wifi/sockets
> >     chmod 0771 /data/misc/wifi/sockets
> >     mkdir /data/misc/android 0770 wifi system
> >     mkdir /data/system/wpa_supplicant 0770 wifi system
> >     mkdir /data/misc/dhcp 0770 dhcp dhcp
> >     chown dhcp dhcp /data/misc/dhcp
> >     chmod 0770 /data/misc/dhcp
> >     setprop wifi.interface wlan0
> > service wpa_supplicant /system/bin/wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0
> > -c/data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
> >     user wifi system
> >     group system
> >     disabled
>
> > service dhcpcd /system/bin/dhcpcd -B wlan0
> >     disabled
> >     oneshot
>
> > With Regards
> > J.Balakrishnan
>
>

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