Thread: [zd1211-devs] wireless-dev tree problems
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From: Jon S. <jon...@gm...> - 2006-12-29 02:44:09
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I couldn't get anything working right with the wireless-dev tree. DHCP wouldn't work on zd1211rw, but the device could hear packets via Wireshark. XGL is unstable on wireless-dev and my machine reset several times. So I'll switch back to the Linus tree and load the various driver versions. My devices have the zd1211b/AL2230_RF radio. Which is the best code for driving it? I also noticed that I can switch between long and short preamble on the router so I can give that a try too. I'll copy the zd1211rw driver out of the wireless-dev tree and patch it up to work on Linus' tree to see if it works better with my radio. Some of comments indicate that Uli's git tree has trouble with my radio. -- Jon Smirl jon...@gm... |
From: Daniel D. <ds...@ge...> - 2006-12-29 03:20:10
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Jon Smirl wrote: > I couldn't get anything working right with the wireless-dev tree. DHCP > wouldn't work on zd1211rw, but the device could hear packets via > Wireshark. XGL is unstable on wireless-dev and my machine reset > several times. You mean John Linville's wireless-dev.git kernel tree, or the wireless-dev branch in my out-of-kernel git tree? If you mean John's tree, were you using the softmac driver or the d80211 port? > My devices have the zd1211b/AL2230_RF radio. Which is the best code > for driving it? As I said earlier, John Linville's wireless-2.6.git kernel tree or Linux 2.6.19.1 Daniel |
From: Jon S. <jon...@gm...> - 2006-12-29 03:57:40
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On 12/28/06, Daniel Drake <ds...@ge...> wrote: > Jon Smirl wrote: > > I couldn't get anything working right with the wireless-dev tree. DHCP > > wouldn't work on zd1211rw, but the device could hear packets via > > Wireshark. XGL is unstable on wireless-dev and my machine reset > > several times. > > You mean John Linville's wireless-dev.git kernel tree, or the > wireless-dev branch in my out-of-kernel git tree? > > If you mean John's tree, were you using the softmac driver or the d80211 > port? John's tree and softmac Is d80211 worth a try? > > > My devices have the zd1211b/AL2230_RF radio. Which is the best code > > for driving it? > > As I said earlier, John Linville's wireless-2.6.git kernel tree or Linux > 2.6.19.1 > > Daniel > -- Jon Smirl jon...@gm... |
From: Daniel D. <ds...@ge...> - 2006-12-29 04:06:19
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Jon Smirl wrote: > On 12/28/06, Daniel Drake <ds...@ge...> wrote: >> Jon Smirl wrote: >>> I couldn't get anything working right with the wireless-dev tree. DHCP >>> wouldn't work on zd1211rw, but the device could hear packets via >>> Wireshark. XGL is unstable on wireless-dev and my machine reset >>> several times. >> You mean John Linville's wireless-dev.git kernel tree, or the >> wireless-dev branch in my out-of-kernel git tree? >> >> If you mean John's tree, were you using the softmac driver or the d80211 >> port? > > John's tree and softmac > > Is d80211 worth a try? Not sure, never tried it myself, but the softmac in John's wireless-dev.git tree will almost certainly be just as broken as 2.6.20-rc2. Daniel |
From: Jon S. <jon...@gm...> - 2006-12-29 05:12:26
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On 12/28/06, Daniel Drake <ds...@ge...> wrote: > Jon Smirl wrote: > > On 12/28/06, Daniel Drake <ds...@ge...> wrote: > >> Jon Smirl wrote: > >>> I couldn't get anything working right with the wireless-dev tree. DHCP > >>> wouldn't work on zd1211rw, but the device could hear packets via > >>> Wireshark. XGL is unstable on wireless-dev and my machine reset > >>> several times. > >> You mean John Linville's wireless-dev.git kernel tree, or the > >> wireless-dev branch in my out-of-kernel git tree? > >> > >> If you mean John's tree, were you using the softmac driver or the d80211 > >> port? > > > > John's tree and softmac > > > > Is d80211 worth a try? > > Not sure, never tried it myself, but the softmac in John's > wireless-dev.git tree will almost certainly be just as broken as 2.6.20-rc2. dscape boots and works at low speed on John's tree with zd1211rw_d80211. It has the same problem as zd1211rw, it drops packets on 11g at high speeds until the link disconnects. Looking at the log, I was fine for 20MB of transfer, then something went wrong and the link never recovered. There is no detail in the log about what happed. I went straight from ok messages to: kernel: smb_add_request: request [f0dbec80, mid=700] timed out! after a 10 second pause with no log messages. BTW, XGL is stable for me under dscape. That implies that something from the other stack is corrupting memory and killing the NVidia driver (which is a great big target). I patched softmac to fix the workqueue problems in 2.6.20-rc2. Are there other problems with softmac? Do I have to use softmac with zd1211b/AL2230_RF hardware? I'm simply trying to locate the best version of the driver for my hardware. Once I find it I can study the code and try to fix things in it. -- Jon Smirl jon...@gm... |