There are no clear instructions for enabled the Broadcom wifi chip in the Wandboard Quad. What follows is an aggregation of information stemming from the research I did to get the chip working on my board.
What I learned
- The Wandboard Quad uses the 4330 chip, unlike the other Wandboards that use the 4329 chip. I found some instructions for Debian and Ubuntu on the Wandboard, but between the different chips and firmware, it was difficult to piece together.
- You have to download the nvram.txt file for the Broadcom chip separately. Why it is not included in the images, I don't know.
Ubuntu 14.04 disk image
I have a Wandboard Quad purchased in Oct 2014. I am running this image:
http://s3.armhf.com/dist/wand/ubuntu-trusty-14.04-rootfs-3.10.17.1-wand-armhf.com.tar.xz
from this Web site:
http://www.armhf.com/boards/wandboard/#trusty
The bottom line is that it was far more stable than the image on the official Wandboard site.
Enabling the Broadcom Wifi chip
Once I cobbled together the info, it was actually a piece of cake. You have to download the nvram.txt for the 4330, and then make symbolic links to the proper files so they are found on boo. You also have to create a config file (wpa_supplicant.conf) with your ssid and password:
sudo wpa_passphrase myssid mypassprase > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
cd /lib/firmware/brcm
sudo wget https://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-arm-extra/blob/master/recipes-bsp/broadcom-nvram-config/files/wandboard/brcmfmac4330-sdio.txt
sudo ln -s bcm4330_nvram.txt brcmfmac-sdio.txt
sudo ln -s brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin brcmfmac-sdio.bin
sudo reboot
Configure your Wifi interface
Now just go to /etc/network, open your favorite editor, and edit the "interfaces" file:
sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
Then configure the wlan0 interface like normal:
# wireless network interface
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
You can test by entering:
sudo ifup wlan0
