Having issues with ATWINC3400 connecting to wifi

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davidpruitt
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Posted by davidpruitt: Mon. Jun 7, 2021 - 03:20 PM
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I am using the SAMD21 Xplained Pro board with an ATWINC3400 expansion on expansion port 1. I am attempting to connect to an enterprise wifi network (MSCHAPv2) using the example project that is provided by Atmel/Microchip (called WINC3400_SECURITY_ENTERPRISE_NETWORK_MSCHAPV2_EXAMPLE). The only changes I have made to the code is to add a username/password where necessary for the wifi connection. All the setup code is running fine, and then I attempt to actually make the wifi connection. After making the attempt, the wifi_cb function receives a message with a value of 34, and I am not sure how to interpret this message. According to the documentation, this is not even a value that should ever be passed into this function. 

 

For reference, "wifi_cb" is the callback function that is defined in code to fulfill the role of this function pointer found in m2m_wifi.h:

 

typedef void (*tpfAppWifiCb)(uint8 u8MsgType, void *pvMsg);

 

According to the documentation, the following values can be passed in for u8MsgType:

 

@param[in]  u8MsgType
    Type of notification. Possible types are:
       - @ref M2M_WIFI_RESP_CON_STATE_CHANGED
       - @ref M2M_WIFI_RESP_CONN_INFO
       - @ref M2M_WIFI_REQ_DHCP_CONF
       - @ref M2M_WIFI_REQ_WPS
       - @ref M2M_WIFI_RESP_IP_CONFLICT
       - @ref M2M_WIFI_RESP_SCAN_DONE
       - @ref M2M_WIFI_RESP_SCAN_RESULT
       - @ref M2M_WIFI_RESP_CURRENT_RSSI
       - @ref M2M_WIFI_RESP_CLIENT_INFO
       - @ref M2M_WIFI_RESP_PROVISION_INFO
       - @ref M2M_WIFI_RESP_DEFAULT_CONNECT
       - @ref M2M_WIFI_RESP_ETHERNET_RX_PACKET (If Bypass mode is active)
       - @ref M2M_WIFI_RESP_WIFI_RX_PACKET (If monitoring mode is active)

The integer value of 34 (the value that my function is receiving as a message) does not match any of those possible values as defined by the documentation. Therefore, I am at a complete loss for what is going wrong with my program.

 

I have tried my code with firmware versions 1.2 (it had a 2017 build date and it came stock on the WINC3400), 1.3.1 (it has a June 2019 build date), and 1.4.1 (It has an Oct 2020 build date).

 

Any suggestions on how I can figure out what is going wrong?

 

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After some further research, it looks like the value 34 corresponds to M2M_WIFI_RESP_BLE_API_RECV. Has anyone experienced this issue? Any suggestions?

 

A similar issue was posted by another user last year, but no one responded to his post with an answer: https://community.atmel.com/foru...

 

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Tools, Atmel Software Framework (ASF) and Atmel Start (ASFv4) (ARM-related)
Last Edited: Mon. Jun 7, 2021 - 04:15 PM
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Posted by awneil: Mon. Jun 7, 2021 - 05:19 PM
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davidpruitt wrote:
Any suggestions on how I can figure out what is going wrong?

I think this may be something that you need to raise with Microchip on a Support Ticket

 

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Posted by loots79: Fri. Sep 3, 2021 - 03:20 PM
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Just finished a port of this driver to a mynewt project and I'm seeing the same event.

 

Did you get any further? I suspect the firmware of the module is incompatible with the win3400 driver I took from asf 3.5.0 framework. I see however you tried several firmware versions so not liking my chances.

 

Will investigate how different the asf driver is to the harmony microchip one. I definitely had this working with a SAME54 and the WINC3400 via a harmony project.

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Posted by loots79: Fri. Sep 3, 2021 - 03:54 PM
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I see no breaking API changes between versions. Verified that my winc3400-stk is on 1.3.1.

 

pebkac

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Posted by loots79: Sun. Sep 5, 2021 - 03:01 PM
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Definitely pebkac

 

I decided to clear my mind and slowly redo, and indirectly recheck the port. Event M2M_WIFI_RESP_BLE_API_RECV is actually expected btw because m2m_wifi_init(...) executes another func m2m_wifi_ble_set_gain_table(...) and I'm pretty sure that event is its response. It fires on init and not on m2m_wifi_connect(...).

 

Make sure module has good power and recheck your port.

 

 

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Posted by danirpg: Mon. Dec 27, 2021 - 11:20 PM
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Ok guys, hi, i found through a lot of testing, the problem is because the HIF fw version, i have a module with the ver 1.2.2 and old hif fw verrsion, i solved loading a project from asf 3.44.0 and then load with OTA Example a version with the HIF fw updated.

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