i.MX 8M Mini EVK make wifi permanent

[rwhitehead]

I've built the imx-desktop-xwayland distro of Linux and booted it.

Following the instructions in the IMX_LINUX_USERS_GUIDE (using connmanctl), I can enable the WiFi. However it is not present when I reboot.

The completely different instructions at https://community.nxp.com/t5/i-MX-Processors/How-to-enable-WIFI-on-i-MX-8M-Mini-EVK/m-p/859910 don't seem to work at all, perhaps they are for a different Linux distro.

Please can someone tell me how to make the WiFi start at boot.

[rwhitehead]

I find I need to run the following command using the debug serial connection:
sudo modprobe moal mod_para=nxp/wifi_mod_para.conf

I've tried automating this (without the sudo) in two different ways: by adding a cron job with @boot and a delay; and by adding a script to /etc/init.d/. But neither worked. 

How do you get it to work?

[jimmychan]

You can write the startup script on your Linux.