IEEE80211 and IPW3945

IEEE80211 and IPW3945

[Martin Lorenz]

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Dear James,

I just had some issues when trying to compile ieee80211 1.2.15 together with
ipw3945 1.1.2 on the latest kernel tree

attached are two patches I had to create to work around it
I guess they are self-explanatory :-)

greets
  mlo
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diff --git a/include/net/ieee80211.h b/include/net/ieee80211.h
index ee66681..b0d1ca3 100644
--- a/include/net/ieee80211.h
+++ b/include/net/ieee80211.h
@@ -30,8 +30,11 @@
 #include <linux/wireless.h>
 
 #define IEEE80211_VERSION_MAJOR 1
+#define IEEE80211_MAJOR_VERSION IEEE80211_VERSION_MAJOR
 #define IEEE80211_VERSION_API 2
+#define IEEE80211_API_VERSION IEEE80211_VERSION_API
 #define IEEE80211_VERSION_MINOR 15
+#define IEEE80211_MINOR_VERSION IEEE80211_VERSION_MINOR
 #define IEEE80211_VERSION_CODE IEEE80211_VERSION_MAJOR * 65536 + \
 			       IEEE80211_VERSION_API * 256 + \
 			       IEEE80211_VERSION_MINOR

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diff --git a/include/linux/config.h b/include/linux/config.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a91f5e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/config.h
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_CONFIG_H
+#define _LINUX_CONFIG_H
+/* This file is no longer in use and kept only for backward compatibility.
+ * autoconf.h is now included via -imacros on the commandline
+ */
+#include <linux/autoconf.h>
+
+#endif

Re: IEEE80211 and IPW3945

[Hesse, Christian]

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On Saturday 18 November 2006 11:20, Martin Lorenz wrote:
> Dear James,
>
> I just had some issues when trying to compile ieee80211 1.2.15 together
> with ipw3945 1.1.2 on the latest kernel tree
>
> attached are two patches I had to create to work around it
> I guess they are self-explanatory :-)

I think you should not recreate linux/config.h but remove the reference to 
it...
-- 
Regards,
Christian

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Re: IEEE80211 and IPW3945

[Ismail Donmez]

18 Kas 2006 Cts 12:20 tarihinde, Martin Lorenz şunları yazmıştı: 
> Dear James,
>
> I just had some issues when trying to compile ieee80211 1.2.15 together
> with ipw3945 1.1.2 on the latest kernel tree
>
> attached are two patches I had to create to work around it
> I guess they are self-explanatory :-)

I wonder when will ieee80211 tree will be merged to mainline, according to 
some posts[1] its needed for some devices.

[1] http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=156930

/ismail

Re: IEEE80211 and IPW3945

[Stephen Clark]

Ismail Donmez wrote:

>18 Kas 2006 Cts 12:20 tarihinde, Martin Lorenz şunları yazmıştı: 
>  
>
>>Dear James,
>>
>>I just had some issues when trying to compile ieee80211 1.2.15 together
>>with ipw3945 1.1.2 on the latest kernel tree
>>
>>attached are two patches I had to create to work around it
>>I guess they are self-explanatory :-)
>>    
>>
>
>I wonder when will ieee80211 tree will be merged to mainline, according to 
>some posts[1] its needed for some devices.
>
>[1] http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=156930
>
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On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:42:55 -0500 Stephen Clark wrote:


>> can someone tell me why I have to replace the 803.11 stack that is 
>> already in
>> linux 2.6.19 rc5 with the stack at sf.
>  
>

You don't have to.
The one in .19-rc5 is new enough (the one in .18 too AFAIK)

I have successfully run ipw3945 with FC6 using the ieee80211 stack from the kernel
I just had to compile with:
 make IEEE80211_API=2 EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DIEEE80211_API_VERSION=2

and ln autoconf.h to config.h

HTH,
steve



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Re: IEEE80211 and IPW3945

[Ismail Donmez]

18 Kas 2006 Cts 16:26 tarihinde, Stephen Clark şunları yazmıştı: 
> Ismail Donmez wrote:
> >18 Kas 2006 Cts 12:20 tarihinde, Martin Lorenz şunları yazmıştı:
> >>Dear James,
> >>
> >>I just had some issues when trying to compile ieee80211 1.2.15 together
> >>with ipw3945 1.1.2 on the latest kernel tree
> >>
> >>attached are two patches I had to create to work around it
> >>I guess they are self-explanatory :-)
> >
> >I wonder when will ieee80211 tree will be merged to mainline, according to
> >some posts[1] its needed for some devices.
> >
> >[1] http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=156930
> >
> >/ismail
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> On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:42:55 -0500 Stephen Clark wrote:
> >> can someone tell me why I have to replace the 803.11 stack that is
> >> already in
> >> linux 2.6.19 rc5 with the stack at sf.
>
> You don't have to.
> The one in .19-rc5 is new enough (the one in .18 too AFAIK)
>
> I have successfully run ipw3945 with FC6 using the ieee80211 stack from the
> kernel I just had to compile with:
>  make IEEE80211_API=2 EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DIEEE80211_API_VERSION=2

Nice tip! Thanks.

/ismail