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Re: 2 compile errors: rt2x00firmware.c and mesh.c

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On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Franz Apeltauer <franz.apeltauer@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Luis R. Rodriguez schrieb:
>
> > Forced a new tarball out with new changes applied, would appreciate
>  > some testing on 2.6.21, 2.6.22. You can get the tarball from the
>  > usual place:
>  > http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
>
>  Thank you very much!
>  Now everything compiles fine on 2.6.22.
>
>  I cannot send you test results yet. It looks like I have to read some
>  more documentation first. For now I can only tell you this:
>
>  a) Test on a PC with a Broadcom 4306 rev 03:
>  - Downloaded and installed the firmware.
>  - The module b43legacy loads without errors, but nothing else happens.
>    ifconfig doesn't show any new interface, like eth0 or wlan0.
>  # modprobe b43legacy
>  => messages: Mar  5 23:14:02 af-nb-3 kernel: [10519.728000] Broadcom
>  43xx driver loaded [ Features: PID, Firmware-ID: FW10 ]
>  => dmesg: [10519.728000] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PID,
>  Firmware-ID: FW10 ]
>
>  Maybe this is important: dmesg says "Firmware-ID: FW10", but there is no
>  ucode10.fw in /lib/firmware/b43legacy, only 2, 4, 5, 11 (downloaded
>  today, as described in the wiki).
>
>  # lsmod | grep 43
>  b43legacy             102040  0
>  ssb                    36484  1 b43legacy
>  mac80211              220020  1 b43legacy
>
>  # lspci
>  00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset
>  Host Bridge
>  00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
>  00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
>  Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
>  ...
>
>
>  b) Test on a PC with MSI PC54G2 ... RaLink rt2500
>  You wrote "For now I'll disable rt2x00 in compat-wireless."
>  So, the result of this test seems to be unimportant (it tried to load
>  the old driver).

You can test this now, I've enabled rt2x00 drivers by fixing
dependencies on config.mk. Forced re-generation of new tarball based
on latest updates too.

  Luis
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