On 14/10/2010 17:57, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:24 +0200, George wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to use compat-wireless to upgrade my n900 wireless driver.
N900 is using WL1251 wireless driver and the omap1 kernel version used
it 2.6.28.
The issue is that 2.6.28 does not have implemented many issues for
nl80211 netlink family which I wanted to test on my n900.
What I want is to get iw and nl80211 working properly so I can use
netlink sockets to get all the information. Currently I cannot do
anything as every iw command reports operation not supported.
I have recompiled the kernel to make cfg80211 and mac80211 modules, so I
can use compat-wireless. After that I have compiled compat-wireless by
selecting the driver family I need. All done under scratchbox.
# scripts/driver-select wl12xx
# make KLIB=/lib/modules/2.6.28-myversion \
KMODPATH_ARG=/lib/modules/2.6.28-myversion
# make KLIB=/lib/modules/2.6.28-myversion \
KMODPATH_ARG=/lib/modules/2.6.28-myversion install
After that I have installed the new kernel and the drivers in the n900
and the system starts. `uname -a` reports I'm using my custom kernel.
The problem is that the wireless modules are not working as expected and
I cannot get access to my wifi networks. Actually bluetooth is not
working as well, as far as I have tested.
dmesg reports --> http://pastebin.com/xskKcGnE
At first sight it seem that you have some mismatch issues,
Try to compile the maemo 2.6.28 kenrel without the wireless modules or
replace the wireless modules by the compat-wireless ones.
(normally the compat-wireless modules should take the precedence but as
it seem here, it didn't work)
If I compile the kernel withouth the wireless modules then they are not
going to be recognized and compat-wireless will complain that .config
that kernel was compiled without wireless.
On the other hand, what do you mean by replacing the wireless modules?
just cut and paste from compat-wireless.
The issue is that 2.6.28 has nl80211, cfg80211 and mac80211 on their
very stages. I think what will solve my problem is just updating those
modules, but for that I have to change also the driver.
Besides that, the main problemm, as some guys pointed in the IRC
channel, is that wl1251 driver is spi and they need something about the
board interfaces.
by the way, are you aware of the meego 2.6.35 kernel, it might not be
complete yet, but may solve some of your problems.
Yes I'm aware of that. I have compiled the kernel and try to load it on
the n900 with maemo rootfs and ... crashes.
Actually I have meego (mmc rootfs) also running on my N900 and wireless
drivers work perfect. The problem is that the gui and develepment SDK
and toolchains are still underdevelopment and I cannot then use
something like the maemo scratchbox.
I have compiled an small application directly on the n900 with meego,
but for larger applications it is not viable.
Denis.
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