I would recommend you upgrade your kernel to a newer version, where compat-wireless works better with. 83xx is well supported by newer kernels. xxiao --- On Tue, 1/26/10, PAN Sunny S K <sunnypan@xxxxxx> wrote: > From: PAN Sunny S K <sunnypan@xxxxxx> > Subject: Building of compat-wireless-old in 2.6.25 BSP kernel for PowerPC architecture > To: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 12:44 AM > Dear Sir, > > My name is Sunny, I'm from the MTrec group in Hong Kong > University of > Science and Technology. We are currently developing a > network device which > will utilize the wireless technology. As part of the > development, we are > examining different reference design from various > companies. Currently > we've received a MPC8377EWLAN from Freescale which we will > need to port > our application onto. Our application deployment on other > device are > currently based on 802.11abg Atheros card with Madwifi > driver. Starting > with this MPC8377EWLAN, we would like to trial with a new > Atheros AR9160 > 802.11bgn card. Since the chipset is not supported by > Madwifi, and the > driver provided by Freescale is proprietary and has problem > with > wlanconfig list scan result, we try to build our own driver > instead of > relying on Freescale. > The MPC8377EWLAN is using a PowerPC architecture MPC8377 > CPU and the > firmware is built by using Freescale's LTIB, the kernel > came with the LTIB > is 2.6.25 which is slightly different from the mainstream > 2.6.25 kernel. > However, when I try to integrate the compat-wireless-old > source into the > LTIB's 2.6.25 kernel, error comes up in socket.c and many > other networking > source. > Therefore, I'd like to seek for some advice of whether the > compat-wireless-old could be compiled with linux kernels > that is compiled > with BSP like LTIB. And how can I solve the building > problem between the > compat-wireless-old and the 2.6.25 kernel? > > Thanks in advance. > > Best regards, > Sunny Pan > > -- > 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 > -- 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
