benh 2.4.4-pre3, Titanium and AirPort

benh 2.4.4-pre3, Titanium and AirPort

[Alain RICHARD]

I am currently using Benjamin Herrenschmidt 2.4.4-pre3 kernel on my
Titanium. The only problem I am currently experiencing is that the
kernel PCMCIA i82365.c driver do not recognized the PCI cardbus
adaptator.

Is there any solution (patch) to get it recognized ?

Also as the current airport driver is now based on the orinoco_cs
(and hermes) driver that depends on PCMCIA support, I am unable to
get airport working. Is there any solution to get it working without
PCMCIA ?

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Re: benh 2.4.4-pre3, Titanium and AirPort

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

>I am currently using Benjamin Herrenschmidt 2.4.4-pre3 kernel on my
>Titanium. The only problem I am currently experiencing is that the
>kernel PCMCIA i82365.c driver do not recognized the PCI cardbus
>adaptator.

Looks like I'll really have to find a PCMCIA card...

>Is there any solution (patch) to get it recognized ?
>
>Also as the current airport driver is now based on the orinoco_cs
>(and hermes) driver that depends on PCMCIA support, I am unable to
>get airport working. Is there any solution to get it working without
>PCMCIA ?

The airport driver should work if you built PCMCIA in the kernel
(no need to actually have a working PCMCIA).

I'm working on a separation of the airport and pcmcia stuffs so
that the airport driver can be used without pcmcia, but it's not
done yet.

Ben.


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Re: benh 2.4.4-pre3, Titanium and AirPort

[Alain RICHARD]

>  >I am currently using Benjamin Herrenschmidt 2.4.4-pre3 kernel on my
>>Titanium. The only problem I am currently experiencing is that the
>  >kernel PCMCIA i82365.c driver do not recognized the PCI cardbus
>>adaptator.
>
>Looks like I'll really have to find a PCMCIA card...

not needed for the test, what seems to be not functionning is the
loading of i82365 module (in the errorlog, it indicates he found no
adaptator). Under a pismo there is no such problem.

>
>>Is there any solution (patch) to get it recognized ?
>>
>>Also as the current airport driver is now based on the orinoco_cs
>>(and hermes) driver that depends on PCMCIA support, I am unable to
>>get airport working. Is there any solution to get it working without
>>PCMCIA ?
>
>The airport driver should work if you built PCMCIA in the kernel
>(no need to actually have a working PCMCIA).

I have built PCMCIA in the kernel, but the problem is that to load
orinico_cs, we must first load the PCMCIA support because it depends
on ds that depends on a working pcmcia adaptor driver (i82365 in
previous powerbooks).

The problem seems that i82365 seems not recognizing the cardbus on
titanium. lspci output is :

01:1a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1211
         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 16, IRQ 58
         Memory at 80080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
         Bus: primary=01, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=32
         I/O window 1: 00000000-00000003
         16-bit legacy interface ports at 1011

>
>I'm working on a separation of the airport and pcmcia stuffs so
>that the airport driver can be used without pcmcia, but it's not
>done yet.

Yes, probably we need a separate orinoco_cs and airport driver,
perhaps depending both on the same implementation module (hermes
driver ?).

>
>Ben.

Regards,
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Re: benh 2.4.4-pre3, Titanium and AirPort

[Michel Dänzer]

Alain RICHARD wrote:

> I have built PCMCIA in the kernel, but the problem is that to load
> orinico_cs, we must first load the PCMCIA support because it depends
> on ds that depends on a working pcmcia adaptor driver (i82365 in
> previous powerbooks).
>
> The problem seems that i82365 seems not recognizing the cardbus on
> titanium. lspci output is :
>
> 01:1a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1211
>          Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 16, IRQ 58
>          Memory at 80080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>          Bus: primary=01, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=32
>          I/O window 1: 00000000-00000003
>          16-bit legacy interface ports at 1011

I have the same on my Pismo and I use the yenta_socket module. I'm writing
this from an Airport connection. :)


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Re: benh 2.4.4-pre3, Titanium and AirPort

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

>
>01:1a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1211
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 16, IRQ 58
>         Memory at 80080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         Bus: primary=01, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=32
>         I/O window 1: 00000000-00000003
>         16-bit legacy interface ports at 1011

I have the same chip on the Pismo that is recognized by the Yenta driver

Ben.


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Re: benh 2.4.4-pre3, Titanium and AirPort

[Alain RICHARD]

>  >
>>01:1a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1211
>>          Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 16, IRQ 58
>>          Memory at 80080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>>          Bus: primary=01, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=32
>>          I/O window 1: 00000000-00000003
>>          16-bit legacy interface ports at 1011
>
>I have the same chip on the Pismo that is recognized by the Yenta driver
>
>Ben.

ok, i have now tried the yenta module and it works now.

Just some more little problems :

- I am using wireless_tools.21 from Jean Tourrib (?) site and it
complains about  getting wireless extensions version 0 and needing
version 11. But iwconfig seems to work and is able to program the
card.

- at module loading and without options, the driver recognize the
card as "firmware ID 1F vendor 1 (lucent) version 7.25" and "WEP
supported, "128"-bit key and then complains about enable to load
module airport0 and airport1. I was thinking that airport cards where
binded to airport0 and not eth0 by default and support only 40 bit
mode ?

- the driver no longer seams to support the various setting as
options for the module; what is now the recommended way of doing it ?

Regards,
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Re: benh 2.4.4-pre3, Titanium and AirPort

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

>
>- at module loading and without options, the driver recognize the
>card as "firmware ID 1F vendor 1 (lucent) version 7.25" and "WEP
>supported, "128"-bit key and then complains about enable to load
>module airport0 and airport1. I was thinking that airport cards where
>binded to airport0 and not eth0 by default and support only 40 bit
>mode ?

I noticed that 128 bit thing too after I did the 1.3 aiport update
from MacOS (it updated the card's firmware). No clue if the driver
is right about it or not.

The ethX by default can be changed with the eth=0 module option. It's
done that way in the original driver, I didn't change it.

>- the driver no longer seams to support the various setting as
>options for the module; what is now the recommended way of doing it ?

I removed the "enc" one that I added previously to avoid diff'ing
too much from the original source. You pass most options via
iwconfig. Just make sure to have the interface up as I keep the
card powered down when the interface is down to save power.

Ben..


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