Re: mrv8k: now gets scan results

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 17:20 +0200, Markus Becker wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2008, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 09:08 +0200, Markus Becker wrote:
> >> Hi Dan,
> >>
> >> I just tested it and my Option Fusion+ HSDPA card does not scan:
> >>
> >> May 21 08:52:17 shelbyville kernel: Command timeout
> >> May 21 08:52:17 shelbyville kernel: Could not set channel
> >> May 21 08:52:17 shelbyville kernel: ~Failed to set channel
> >> May 21 08:52:17 shelbyville kernel: wlan1: failed to set freq to 2417 MHz for scan
> >
> > Interesting; it does take the firmware upload though, right?  What
> > firmware version gets reported by the driver when it loads?  I'll have
> > to try again with my Netgear PCI card which was a lot more unhappy with
> > the driver than my 3Com CardBus one.
> 
> The firmware loads fine for me, see below:
> May 21 08:50:40 shelbyville kernel: 0000:16:00.0 (mrv8k): successfully uploaded firmware
> May 21 08:50:40 shelbyville kernel: 0000:16:00.0 (mrv8k): MAC address 00:0c:e3:xx:xx:xx
> May 21 08:50:40 shelbyville kernel: 0000:16:00.0 (mrv8k): HW ver. 3, FW ver. 0x3020007, 2 antennas, regulatory domain EU

Yay, this means the regulatory domain codes are what I expected them to
be :)  Also, is this an 8335, or an 8310?

Dan

> >
> > I spent some time checking through marvell.git from Linville's repo on
> > kernel.org too, and it looks like we may be able to pull a lot of
> > constants and commands from that.  The RX and TX descriptors are
> > somewhat different, but I've generally found that Marvell's drivers and
> > firmware share a lot of API/ABI (would be stupid to break stuff all the
> > time anyway, even in closed source).  We may be able to use mrv8k for
> > the TopDog 802.11n PCI and USB parts as well since they are so similar
> > from a programming perspective.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >> May 21 08:52:19 shelbyville kernel: Command timeout
> >> May 21 08:52:19 shelbyville kernel: Could not set channel
> >> May 21 08:52:19 shelbyville kernel: ~Failed to set channel
> >> May 21 08:52:19 shelbyville kernel: wlan1: failed to set freq to 2422 MHz for scan
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> I also got some lockups, however I have no infrastructure setup to debug
> >> those.
> >>
> >> Thanks for all your efforts,
> >> Markus
> >>
> >> On Tue, 20 May 2008, Dan Williams wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I've gotten mrv8k to the point where I can get scan results with it on
> >>> my 3COM 3CRGPC10075 CardBus card.  Data RX still doesn't work for some
> >>> reason and WEP associations still fail with a mac80211 timeout.  Enough
> >>> for today though.  All changes pushed to mrv8k.git on infradead.
> >>>
> >>> Dan
> >>>
> >>>
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