3.4 Initializing the WILC Device

Insert the WILC1000 SD card device into the SD Card slot.
Copy the wilc-sdio.ko (driver/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000) to the root file system using the USB mass storage drive using the following commands:

$ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
$ cp /mnt/wilc-sdio.ko .

Initialize the WILC device by inserting the wilc-sdio.ko module using the following command:

$ insmod wilc-sdio.ko

After successful completion of the process, the wlan0 interface is up and running.

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