ESP32-C2 Wifi not working on module (storage driver issue)

bruno192
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ESP32-C2 Wifi not working on module (storage driver issue)

Postby bruno192 » Thu May 30, 2024 2:22 pm

Hi,

I'm using a brand new ESP32-C2 module (ESP8684-MINI-1-H2), bought from mouser.com, on a custom PCB.
Programming it using vscode over JTAG works fine with a blinking and serial print example. However when I try to use it as a Wi-Fi client I get the following errors:

[ 2289][E][WiFiGeneric.cpp:255] wifiLowLevelInit(): esp_wifi_init 4353
[ 2296][E][STA.cpp:298] begin(): STA enable failed!

4353 error code is: ESP_ERR_NVS_NOT_INITIALIZED (0x1101): The storage driver is not initialized

I've tried to run

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esp_err_t ret = nvs_flash_init();
Which gives error 24579 (0x6003), some kind of flash error:

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#define ESP_ERR_FLASH_BASE          0x6000  /*!< Starting number of flash error codes */
I've tried on an identical second chip, same problem.

If I run the exact same code on ESP8684-DevKitM-1-H4 (uses ESP8684-MINI-1) development board then there are no issues getting Wi-Fi to work.

Any idea how to resolve this issue?


bruno192
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Re: ESP32-C2 Wifi not working on module (storage driver issue)

Postby bruno192 » Fri May 31, 2024 12:25 pm

I've been using
platform = https://github.com/Jason2866/platform-e ... duino/IDF5

Which should support c2. But the strange thing is thay WiFi works on the dev. kit ESP8684-DevKitM-1-H4 (which uses C2), but not on the seperate C2 module on the custom PCB.

I've tried to use static libraries, using the station_example (esp\v5.2.1\esp-idf\examples\wifi\getting_started\station), but to no avail. I can't get it to work on either the dev board nor the c2 module. I did try on an old wroom-32 dev board, and there it works.

I'm considering to just desolder the c2 from the dev board to my PCB, or replace the c2 with another variant.

lbernstone
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Re: ESP32-C2 Wifi not working on module (storage driver issue)

Postby lbernstone » Sat Jun 01, 2024 6:33 pm

Ah, I was confused since you are asking this question in a forum titled "ESP32 Arduino"
The flash is not getting initialized for some reason. Configure your flash to use lowest common denominator settings- 2M flash, DIO mode, 40MHz. Make sure your partition table only goes to 2M.
Does esptool give you accurate information if you run esptool.py flash_info?

bruno192
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Re: ESP32-C2 Wifi not working on module (storage driver issue)

Postby bruno192 » Sat Jun 01, 2024 8:32 pm

I manged to get it to work using the static libraries. Using idf.py menuconfig XTAL had to change from 40Mhz to 26Mhz. I'm guessing it's the same when using arduino framework.

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