"ext Frantisek Dufka" <dufkaf at seznam.cz> writes: > Bob Lees wrote: >> OK looking into this slightly more, the wifi chip firmware appears to be the >> same for both os2007 and os2008. The bt firmware is different > > I guess it is in userspace connection manager stuff. One could verify it > by trying to bring wi-fi up via wireless-tools (commandline tools - > iwconfig etc.), they are in maemo Bora repository. Small howto was in > maemo list month ago or so with subject "WLAN connectivity using only > wireless-tools". I would guess that it's a Wireless Extension problem. I did some changes for cx3110x in OS2008 and that most probably broke the backwards compatiblity with wlancond from OS2007. Wireless Extensions is a bit of a challenge, to put it mildly. The worst Linux kernel interface I have seen :/ > Sadly WPA does not work with this yet. Fortunately Lauro Venancio posted a patch for supporting wpa_supplicant to cx3110x-devel. I haven't yet tested them myself, but it would be nice if someone else (you?) can test it. > If you say the firmware is same one could also try to recompile older > cx3110x driver for new kernel. Yes, that's a good idea. > But this won't help if it is caused by some generic network changes > in linux kernel between .18 and .21. Yes, that too. Not worth the trouble to find the reason in my opinion, might need a lot of work. -- Kalle Valo
