Hi Gary, On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Gary Thomas <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2012-02-29 11:48, Gary Thomas wrote: >> >> On 2012-02-29 08:43, Gary Thomas wrote: >>> >>> I'm struggling a bit to build compat-wireless in a cross-build >>> environment. >>> I normally don't build kernels in-tree, rather I use a build tree, e.g. >>> % cd <linux-source> >>> % mkdir /tmp/kernel_build >>> % make O=/tmp/kernel_build <some_config> >>> % make O=/tmp/kernel_build uImage >>> >>> I can't see how to use this setup with the compat-wireless package. >>> I tried [all the combinations I could think of] something like this: >>> % cd <compat-wireless> >>> % make KLIB=<linux-source> KLIB_BUILD=/tmp/kernel_build >>> However, this seems to not work as all I get are errors like this: >>> /local/compat-wireless-2012-02-28/config.mk:242: "WARNING: >>> CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT will be deactivated or not working because kernel was >>> compiled with CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT=n. Tools >>> using wext interface like iwconfig will not work. To activate it build >>> your kernel e.g. with CONFIG_LIBIPW=m." >>> >>> Does this process work in my workflow? What do I need to do to >>> get it going? >> >> >> I managed to get past this, using this >> % make KLIB=/tmp/kernel_build KLIB_BUILD=/tmp/kernel_build >> but to get it to actually build anything, I had to append the >> 'modules' target, e.g. >> % make KLIB=/tmp/kernel_build KLIB_BUILD=/tmp/kernel_build modules >> >> Next problems: >> * How do I select sub-options? I only want WL12xx support with SDIO, but >> that requires some sub-options to be set that don't appear to happen. >> I get the main wl12xx module, but not wl12xx_sdio or wl12xx_platform_data >> * There are a number of files which don't build against my 2.6.37 kernel, >> but none of these are important to me (they are in the bluetooth driver >> which I don't need, but nonetheless it gets built) >> * The make/install is terribly broken for cross-builds. >> >> I hacked my way past these problems and finally got some modules which >> I can try. Sadly, they don't work at all: >> # modprobe wl12xx_sdio >> wl12xx: loaded >> # ifconfig wlan0 up >> wl1271_sdio mmc1:0001:2: sdio write failed (-110) >> wl1271_sdio mmc1:0001:2: sdio write failed (-110) >> ... > > > Sadly, this one was my fault - one of my build hacks got in the way :-( > > Now, I'm getting this error: > wl12xx: ERROR could not get firmware ti-connectivity/wl127x-fw-4-sr.bin: -2 > But this file is not available at the Linux firmware tree > (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git) > > Where can I find it? > Try here: git://github.com/TI-OpenLink/firmwares.git Thomas -- 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
