Re: Building of compat-wireless-old in 2.6.25 BSP kernel for PowerPC architecture

X Xiao
2010-01-26T16:31:39Z

I would recommend you upgrade your kernel to a newer version, where compat-wireless works better with. 83xx is well supported by newer kernels.
xxiao

--- On Tue, 1/26/10, PAN Sunny S K <sunnypan@ust.hk> wrote:

> From: PAN Sunny S K <sunnypan@ust.hk>
> Subject: Building of compat-wireless-old in 2.6.25 BSP kernel for PowerPC architecture
> To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
> Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 12:44 AM
> Dear Sir,
>
> My name is Sunny, I'm from the MTrec group in Hong Kong
> University of
> Science and Technology. We are currently developing a
> network device which
> will utilize the wireless technology. As part of the
> development, we are
> examining different reference design from various
> companies. Currently
> we've received a MPC8377EWLAN from Freescale which we will
> need to port
> our application onto. Our application deployment on other
> device are
> currently based on 802.11abg Atheros card with Madwifi
> driver. Starting
> with this MPC8377EWLAN, we would like to trial with a new
> Atheros AR9160
> 802.11bgn card. Since the chipset is not supported by
> Madwifi, and the
> driver provided by Freescale is proprietary and has problem
> with
> wlanconfig list scan result, we try to build our own driver
> instead of
> relying on Freescale.
> The MPC8377EWLAN is using a PowerPC architecture MPC8377
> CPU and the
> firmware is built by using Freescale's LTIB, the kernel
> came with the LTIB
> is 2.6.25 which is slightly different from the mainstream
> 2.6.25 kernel.
> However, when I try to integrate the compat-wireless-old
> source into the
> LTIB's 2.6.25 kernel, error comes up in socket.c and many
> other networking
> source.
> Therefore, I'd like to seek for some advice of whether the
> compat-wireless-old could be compiled with linux kernels
> that is compiled
> with BSP like LTIB. And how can I solve the building
> problem between the
> compat-wireless-old and the 2.6.25 kernel?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Best regards,
> Sunny Pan
>
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