Re: Compat-wireless N900

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

On 25/10/2010 4:03, Kalle Valo wrote:
> George<george.news@gmx.net>  writes:
>
>> It seems that it tries to do something but it is not finally done.
>> However, as you can see it seems there is no error (at least
>> reported). Could it be that spi_read buf is almost everytime reading
>> 00 00 00 00?
>
> If you get nothing but zeros back from the device, most likely that
> means that it's not powered up properly.
>
> wl1251 chip on n900 is powered up by using a gpio line. I'm worried
> that the struct wl12xx_platform_data wl1251 wireless-compat driver
> expects (defined in /include/linux/wl12xx.h) doesn't match what the
> old maemo kernel provides. Unfortunately I can't remember anymore what
> the platform data was like in maemo kernels and there's no easy way
> for me to check that right now.
>

Thanks a lot for that hint. Now I'm involved in another issue but when I 
have more time I will look at those .h, but don't expect too much from 
me as I'm not expert but just user.

Thanks a lot.