Release v1.5.2 of the Intel WiMAX stack has been posted to the linuxwimax.org website. This release works with Kilmer Peak (Intel? Centrino? Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250) and Echo Peak (Intel? WiMAX/WiFi Link 5350 and 5150). The software here is not meant for commercial use and should be treated as experimental. WiMAX based devices typically need to go through rigorous carrier certification tests to be endorsed. Please contact Intel [linux-wimax at intel.com] if you need an officially supported WiMAX product. This release features: - plenty of 64-bit fixes - big endian support - miscellaneaous bug fixes - fixed distro target generation, zlib detection; silent mode added to build - remove a big lot of dead, unused files Thank you to everyone who submitted cleanups and patches! Please note the maintainers have not tested 64-bit or big endian support. These instructions are largely the same as for release v1.5; the only addition is configure parameters to the wimax-network-service package (for convenience) The set of dependencies for using are non trivial; please follow the following steps for installing: - firmware: devices (5x5x and 6x50) need to load a 1.5 firmware, available from the http://linuxwimax.org/Download page. Download and install: $ tar xf i2400m-fw-1.5.0.tar.bz2 # As root $ install -o root -g root -m 0644 i2400m-fw-1.5.0/*.sbcf /lib/firmware - Needed packages to build (in a Fedora Core 12 machine, as an example): $ yum install gcc make libnl-devel openssl-devel git-core \ rpm-build glib2-devel - drivers: compile and build a kernel from the latest WiMAX tree (master branch) as of 5/12/2010. The drivers in every kernel up to and including 2.6.34 need bug fixes in order to be able to operate with the 1.5 firmware. These bug fixes are being submitted to the upstream Linux kernel for 2.6.35. Please clone the tip of the WiMax Linux tree git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/inaky/wimax.git and build your kernel from there. These instructions are quite VERY generic; for doing this, it is very recommended that you know what you are doing or you might toast your system: $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/inaky/wimax.git $ cd PATH/wimax.git $ cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config $ yes "" | make oldconfig $ make # Create a set of kernel headers suitable for compiling wimax-tools # and the wimax daemon into PATH/wimax.git/usr $ make headers_install Steps for installing the kernel vary from distribution to distribution, so they are not covered here. - wimax-tools: version 1.4.5 is recommended $ tar xf wimax-tools-1.4.5.tar.gz $ cd wimax-tools-1.4.5 $ ./configure --with-linux=PATH/wimax.git/usr $ make # as root $ make install - open source supplicant: building the libeap.so library To build the open source supplicant, you need to patch wpa-supplicant and rebuild. Download wpa-supplicant 0.7.2 from http://hostap.epitest.fi/; download the patch from http://linuxwimax.org/Download. Patch it and recompile. You will need the OpenSSL development packages installed (openssl-devel or openssl-dev in most distros): $ tar xf wpa_supplicant-0.7.2.tar.gz $ cd wpa_supplicant-0.7.2 $ patch -p1 < PATH/wpa_supplicant-0.7.2-generate-libeap-peer.patch $ make -C src/eap_peer # As root $ make -C src/eap_peer install $ ldconfig - WiMAX network service $ tar xf wimax-1.5.2.tar.gz $ cd wimax-1.5.2 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-linux=PATH/wimax.git/usr \ --with-libwimaxll=/usr/local \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ -localstatedir=/var $ make # As root $ make install Once all is installed, usage is as before: - boot into the right kernel - start the daemon on an Intel WiMAX device: $ wimaxd -i wmx0 - scan for networks $ wimaxcu scan Network found. NSP : CLEAR ID : 2 Signal : Good RSSI : -72 dBm CINR : 13 dB Network Type: Home Network Activated If other networks you are expecting should show up, force a wide scan (this is a known glitch): $ wimaxcu-wpa_cd scan wide Changing Scan mode to Manual Scan mode WARNING: Wide scan may take upto 2 minutes... NSP : CLEAR ID : 2 Signal : Very Good RSSI : -66 dBm CINR : 22 dB Network Type: Home Network Activated. NSP : Time Warner Cable 4G ID : 51 Signal : Very Good RSSI : -66 dBm CINR : 22 dB Network Type: Home Network Activated. NSP : Comcast ID : 48 Signal : Very Good RSSI : -66 dBm CINR : 22 dB Network Type: Home Network Activated. NSP : SPRINT ID : 47 Signal : Very Good RSSI : -66 dBm CINR : 22 dB Network Type: Home Network Activated. - Connect to a network For connecting to the Sprint network detected above, for example: $ wimaxcu connect network 47 - Disconnecting from the network $ wimaxcu dconnect Note that the wimax daemon requires integration with your distribution's method for obtaining DHCP addresses in order to properly support power saving modes. See file /usr/share/wimax/dhcp_renew.sh.
