On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Leonardo H. Souza Hamada <leonardo.hamada@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > At this moment, after tweaking the zd1211rw code in kernel > 2.6.31-gentoo, finally I am able to use the WLI-U2-KG54L wireless usb > dongle on this old ibook. > > Browsing the source with a cross referencing tool > (http://lxr.free-electrons.com) and making additional checking points, I > could trace the issue as follow. > > The problem is that this device returns a regulatory region of 0x49, > which is not defined in the zd1211rw tables. So the call > > r <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=r> = zd_reg2alpha2 <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=zd_reg2alpha2>(mac <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=mac>->regdomain, alpha2); > > will fail the initialization process. > > > Workaround: > > ----snip---- > int zd_mac_init_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) > { > ... > r = zd_read_regdomain(chip, &default_regdomain); > /* A unknown regulatory of 0x49 will be set default to > ZD_REGDOMAIN_FCC. */ > if (0x49 == default_regdomain) > default_regdomain = ZD_REGDOMAIN_FCC; > ... > ----snip---- > > The above code will force the default regulatry to be FCC code for this > case. I think that this was the case in previous zd1211rw driver. What > is the country code for 0x49 region? There is a better way? > > > Thanks all, > > Phew!! Leonardo The vendor driver has quite a lot more regdomain code defined, and 0x49 is apparently ZD_Region_Japan_3 = 0x49,//G channel->ch1-13; A channel->8~16,34~46; the rw driver code probably should set it to most restrictive than let it fail... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
