On 14/10/2010 19:17, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
<GNUtoo@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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,
Agreed, try:
for i in mac80211 cfg80211 wl1251_spi; do modprobe -l $i; done
This will show you where its picking up the modules upon load. If you
see some disagreement with paths, that's the issue. Compat-wireless
relies on stuffing them on your /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates/
directory and in order for these modules to take precedence over the
/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/ modules we rely on a file in
/etc/depmod.d/ which tells depmod to prefer updates first. For example
on an ubuntu box you get:
mcgrof@tux ~ $ cat /etc/depmod.d/ubuntu.conf
search updates ubuntu built-in
I have tried using even insmod and the modules load perfectly but the
wlan device doesn't show up.
In dmesg nothing is displayed except for the cfg80211 and when I rmmod
the module wl1251 (wl1251: removed or similar)
I'm still wondering what the hell I have to do.
TA
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