I had a working Debian system on the BBGW. I did an apt-get upgrade today and re-booted and now the WL8 will not initialize. I saw there was a firmware update in the upgrade, so maybe this is causing a problem?
mark@markbbgw:~$ cat /etc/dogtag BeagleBoard.org Debian Image 2016-06-19 mark@markbbgw:~$ uname -a Linux markbbgw 4.4.12-ti-r31 #1 SMP Thu Jun 16 18:48:27 UTC 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux mark@markbbgw:~$ cat /proc/cmdline console=ttyO0,115200n8 root=UUID=066b85e2-8976-4b0c-99f4-e5525a67998c ro rootfstype=ext4 rootwait coherent_pool=1M quiet cape_universal=enable >From dmesg: [ 27.010423] wlcore: wl18xx HW: 183x or 180x, PG 2.2 (ROM 0x11) [ 27.133864] wlcore: loaded [ 34.349928] wlcore: ERROR timeout waiting for the hardware to complete initialization [ 38.623450] wlcore: ERROR timeout waiting for the hardware to complete initialization [ 42.979266] wlcore: ERROR timeout waiting for the hardware to complete initialization [ 42.998770] wlcore: ERROR firmware boot failed despite 3 retries [ 47.470802] wlcore: ERROR timeout waiting for the hardware to complete initialization [ 52.035220] wlcore: ERROR timeout waiting for the hardware to complete initialization [ 56.555735] wlcore: ERROR timeout waiting for the hardware to complete initialization [ 56.574659] wlcore: ERROR firmware boot failed despite 3 retries After boot, trying an ifup: linux% sudo ifup wlan0 [ 373.798288] wlcore: ERROR ELP wakeup timeout! [ 375.780033] wlcore: ERROR timeout waiting for the hardware to complete initialization [ 377.746317] wlcore: ERROR timeout waiting for the hardware to complete initialization [ 379.724491] wlcore: ERROR timeout waiting for the hardware to complete initialization [ 379.733485] wlcore: ERROR firmware boot failed despite 3 retries -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAL8ugEctYWsGt7RCPNyF-RsYjY5MQi8xhv%2BW0VcPLe0hUh5J%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.