On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Paul Roge <proge@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The old patch is out-of-date, perhaps we can start a new trip to >> upstream the latest version maintained at >> http://dev.lemote.com/code/linux-loongson-community. >> >> The latest one threaded the irq interrupt handler and fixed some bugs. >> >> Hope somebody else can work on it for I'm a little busy currently ;-) > > Since I am new to configuring kernels, I doubt that I can help very much on this. > > The 3.0.4-libre-lemote kernel from http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/lemote/gnewsense has everything except hotkey support for wireless. The CONFIG_RTL8187 and CONFIG_RTL8187B options are disabled in the config file. Typing "echo 1 > /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill0/state" does nothing, even when the kernel is reconfigured with those drivers enabled. > > The 2.36.8-loongson-2f kernel from http://bjlx.org.cn/loongson2f/squeeze has functional hotkey and wireless networking capability. However, the date resets to 1968 when restarted, thus messing up certificates, and scrolling with the keybad is disabled. > > I would really appreciate suggestions for adding wireless/hotkey capability to the 3.0.4-libre-lemote kernel, or fixing the date problem and adding the keybad scrolling capability on 2.36.8-loongson-2f! Should I add the patch, modify options, or both? I guess something may have been broken from 2.6.39 or 3.0, because I have no enough time to continue the maintaining, sorry, hope you can try 2.6.37 or 2.6.38 from http://bjlx.org.cn/loongson2f/squeeze instead. Sorry for my late response. Regards, Wu Zhangjin > > Thanks! > Paul >
