longcongduoi / wpanusb

IEEE802.15.4 over USB Linux kernel driver

QUICK HOWTO

Prerequisites

QuarkSE devboard is connected to Linux PC with 2 USB cables and flashed with wpanusb application.

Building Linux kernel wpanusb driver

1. Make sure you have Linux kernel headers installed

   $ ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build

2. Type make, below is output for the latest Ubuntu

   $ make
   make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=$PWD
   make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.0-38-generic'
     CC [M]  /usr/local/src/ieee802154/wpanusb/wpanusb.o
     Building modules, stage 2.
     MODPOST 1 modules
     CC      /usr/local/src/ieee802154/wpanusb/wpanusb.mod.o
     LD [M]  /usr/local/src/ieee802154/wpanusb/wpanusb.ko
   make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.0-38-generic'

Loading wpanusb

You can load driver with insmod given that all dependency are loaded, otherwise use provided modprobe.sh script

$ sudo scripts/modprobe.sh

wpan0 device should appear in the network devices list

Configuring 6lowpan address

There is a script helping to configure 6lowpan address

$ sudo scripts/lowpan.sh

lowpan0 network device should appear and IPv6 address can be checked with

$ ip addr show dev lowpan0
59: lowpan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1280 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1
    link/[825] 92:05:91:9b:5a:2c:34:41 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet6 fe80::9005:919b:5a2c:3441/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

There is link local IPv6 address which can be used for ping6.