Re: Compat-wireless N900

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

On 18/10/2010 19:21, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:34 AM, George<george.news@gmx.net>  wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Does your device use SDIO or SPI?
>
>    Luis

I have tried both and none of them have worked.

Jorge