Re: Compat-wireless N900

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

On 17/10/2010 11:01, George wrote:
> 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.

I have downloaded compat-wireless-2010-10-17.tar.bz2 and have compiled 
the code with no problem. I have seen the changes you've made creating 
modules wl1251, spi and sdio.

I have run modprobe spi to upload the modules (also tried sdio) and no 
way. dmesg doesn't include any message. Below is the one after unloading 
the modules and uploading them again:
rmmod spi wl1251 mac80211 cfg80211 compat_firmware_class
modprobe spi

 >>
wl1251: unloaded
cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
 >>

Below is the output for lsmod. As you can see modules are up and 
running, but when I execute ifconfig -a no wlan0 device shows up.

Nokia-N900:~# lsmod | grep spi
spi                     4352  0
wl1251                 75840  1 spi
mac80211              212984  2 spi,wl1251
crc7                    1216  1 spi
Nokia-N900:~# lsmod | grep compat
compat_firmware_class     8896  1 wl1251
compat                 10496  2 mac80211,cfg80211
v4l1_compat            12100  1 videodev
compat_ioctl32           832  1 fmtx_si4713
Nokia-N900:~# lsmod | grep wl12
wl1251                 75840  1 spi
compat_firmware_class     8896  1 wl1251
mac80211              212984  2 spi,wl1251
cfg80211              148904  2 wl1251,mac80211

Any help on that? Sorry but I'm somehow desesperate and don't know what 
to do. Actually I'm thinking on not using compat-wireless and nl80211 
and get back to wireless-extensions.

CU
Jorge

> 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
>
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