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November 3, 2020
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Wlan0: Unsupported driver ‘nl80211’

  • November 3, 2020
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I am working with Buildroot, to flash an image on my STM32MP157C-DK2 I wanted to have Wi-Fi working it but I got this error:

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Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant

nl80211: 'nl80211' generic netlink not found

Failed to initialize driver 'nl80211'

wlan0: Unsupported driver 'nl80211'

FAIL

I configure the interfaces and wpa_supplicant.conf files correctly normally. I don’t know wthat that means but my configuration in the menuconfig and linux-menuconfig is right (I think). Does it maybe have something to do with my target machine (the STM in this case) ?

Every Kind of Help is appreciated since I am a newby in Embedded Linux

p.s I don’t know why but it seems like the Wifi Bluetooth Card is Murata-LBEE5KL1DX-883. Maybe my Kernel configuration does not support it

I linked both Kernel and System Configuration

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    Technical Moderator
    November 6, 2020

    Hi @SigmaPrime​ ,

    I guess @Lukas Brückner​ gives you useful hint about the same problem in your other post :

    https://community.st.com/s/question/0D53W00000M9LPsSAN/mpu-nteraction-with-a-endpointrest-through-wifi

    Do you confirm ?

    Thx

    Olivier