Re: Compat-wireless N900

[George <george.news@gmx.net>]

On 15/10/2010 20:01, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:42 PM, George<george.news@gmx.net>  wrote:
>> On 14/10/2010 20:03, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:09 AM, George<george.news@gmx.net>    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.

Thanks for that. Tomorrow at work I will try to test it out and get back 
to you if something happens ;)

> I welcome patches if someone gets to it.

I'm sorry but my knowdledge of the system is from a higher level of 
abstraction. Otherwise I will be soooo please of helping you out.

Again. Thanks.
Jorge

>    Luis
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