Heres the deal:

I am by no means a Linux expert, even less when it comes to the Android OS but lets see if we can't solve this problem.

The problem I am having is that on the Cliq we have a broadcom chip. In order to use the wireless card you must first insert the module into the kernel. Fine:

# insmod /system/lib/dhd.ko
insmod /system/lib/dhd.ko
# lsmod
lsmod
dhd 164936 0 - Live 0xbf000000
#

BUT netcfg (or ifconfig in busybox) does not recognize that there is a wireless adapter there:

# netcfg
netcfg
lo       UP    127.0.0.1       255.0.0.0       0x00000049
dummy0   DOWN  0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0x00000082
rmnet0   UP    14.67.164.2     255.255.255.252 0x00001043
rmnet1   DOWN  0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0x00001002
rmnet2   DOWN  0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0x00001002
usb0     DOWN  0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0x00001002
# busybox ifconfig
busybox ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:282 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:282 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:18754 (18.3 KiB)  TX bytes:18754 (18.3 KiB)

rmnet0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr EE:83:E8:B4:4A:ED
          inet addr:14.x.x.x  Bcast:14.67.164.3  Mask:255.255.255.252
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:7148 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:7659 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2609236 (2.4 MiB)  TX bytes:908575 (887.2 KiB)

#

For giggles if we attempt to launch wpa_supplicant anyways we get this:

# wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth0 -c/data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth0 -c/data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: No such device
Could not configure driver to use managed mode
ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device
Could not set interface 'eth0' UP
ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCGIFINDEX]: No such device
CTRL-EVENT-STATE-CHANGE id=-1 state=0
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: No such device
WEXT auth param 7 value 0x0 - Failed to disable WPA in the driver.
ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: No such device
WEXT auth param 5 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: No such device
WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device
#

In dmesg we get:

<4>[18300.494065] dhd_oob_enable_intr : enable
<4>[18305.019976] dhd_net_start failed bus is not ready
<4>[18305.020278] dhdsdio_probe: dhd_net_start failed!

Do I need to specify the firmware with insmod?

Why are we trying to control the interface manually instead of through the Android API? The Android API doesn't support ad-hoc connections as far as I can tell. The card, I am sure, most certainly can.