On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:34 AM, George <george.news@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 17/10/2010 11:01, George wrote: >> >> On 15/10/2010 20:01, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:42 PM, George<george.news@xxxxxxx> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 14/10/2010 20:03, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:09 AM, George<george.news@xxxxxxx> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I have tried using even insmod and the modules load perfectly >>>>>> but the wlan device doesn't show up. >>>>> >>>>> Then that likely means you are not loading the right module. >>>>> >>>>>> 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. >>>>> >>>>> Are you sure you have the right module? >>>> >>>> Yes. The driver is the wl1251 family. As I said in previous posts >>>> and from what some guys in the IRC channel tried to guess, it >>>> seems that the problem might be in that the spi interface is >>>> specific for any device, and in the n900 might be different from >>>> the one implemented in compat-wireless. >>> >>> Heh, nope. >>> >>>> I'm a bit suprised about this fact, but they know more than I. >>> >>> Or, we had not yet accommodated yet for the fact that the wl1251 >>> driver was split out into its own directory from the original >>> wl12xx/ directory and no one ever sent a patch to fix this on >>> compat-wireless. I just fixed this on today's compat-wireless, so >>> you can try that around noon PST time when the new tarball will be >>> generated. Ah but there are some pcmcia crap compile issues, we >>> just have to remove pcmcia support, well not now, I have other >>> stuff to do. > > I have downloaded compat-wireless-2010-10-17.tar.bz2 and have compiled the > code with no problem. I have seen the changes you've made creating modules > wl1251, spi and sdio. > > I have run modprobe spi to upload the modules (also tried sdio) and no way. > dmesg doesn't include any message. Below is the one after unloading the > modules and uploading them again: > rmmod spi wl1251 mac80211 cfg80211 compat_firmware_class > modprobe spi > >>> > wl1251: unloaded > cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain >>> > > Below is the output for lsmod. As you can see modules are up and running, > but when I execute ifconfig -a no wlan0 device shows up. > > Nokia-N900:~# lsmod | grep spi > spi           4352 Â0 > wl1251         75840 Â1 spi > mac80211       Â212984 Â2 spi,wl1251 > crc7          Â1216 Â1 spi > Nokia-N900:~# lsmod | grep compat > compat_firmware_class   8896 Â1 wl1251 > compat         10496 Â2 mac80211,cfg80211 > v4l1_compat      Â12100 Â1 videodev > compat_ioctl32      832 Â1 fmtx_si4713 > Nokia-N900:~# lsmod | grep wl12 > wl1251         75840 Â1 spi > compat_firmware_class   8896 Â1 wl1251 > mac80211       Â212984 Â2 spi,wl1251 > cfg80211       Â148904 Â2 wl1251,mac80211 > > Any help on that? Sorry but I'm somehow desesperate and don't know what to > do. Actually I'm thinking on not using compat-wireless and nl80211 and get > back to wireless-extensions. Does your device use SDIO or SPI? Luis -- 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
