airo-linux-general — General questions/comment about using the airo linux driver.

[Airo-linux-general] compiling problems with CVS

[Cory S. <co...@st...>]

  I'm having some trouble compiling my kernel after patching it with CVS 
code.  I've tried this with a 2.4.7 and 2.4.17 kernel.  If my kernel 
source is in /usr/src/linux and my CVS patches are in 
/usr/src/airo-linux, I cd to /usr/src/ and type
"patch -p0 < airo-linux/kernel/patches/2.4.3.patch" and get the 
following errors:


patching file linux/drivers/net/Config.in
Hunk #1 FAILED at 254.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file 
linux/drivers/net/Config.in.rej
patching file linux/drivers/net/Makefile
Hunk #1 succeeded at 94 (offset 5 lines).
patching file linux/drivers/net/pcmcia/Config.in
Hunk #1 succeeded at 31 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #2 FAILED at 40.
1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file 
linux/drivers/net/pcmcia/Config.in.rej
patching file linux/drivers/net/pcmcia/Makefile
patching file linux/Documentation/Configure.help
Hunk #1 succeeded at 8650 with fuzz 1 (offset 1340 lines).

After looking at linux/drivers/net/Config.in.rej it appears that ~ ling 
290 something is where it wants to put the code.  I don't think it's 
necessary anyway, because Config.in sources 
drivers/net/wireless/Config.in which has a spot for CONFIG_AIRO.

I have no idea what linux/drivers/net/pcmcia/Config.in.rej wants to do. 
 I can't match the rej stuff to anything in that Config file.  I decided 
to not worry about it, because I'm not running on a laptop, and 
therefore not using pcmcia.

Next, I move linux/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c and airo_cs.c to 
airo-old.c and airo_cs-old.c respectively.  I copy 
airo-linux/kernel/airo.c airo.h and airo_cs.c to 
linux/drivers/net/wireless.  I run "make menuconfig", configure the 
kernel, and then successfully run "make dep".  When I run "make bzImage" 
I get the following errors:


gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes 
-Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common 
-pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586    -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c 
auto_irq.c
rm -f net.o
ld -m elf_i386  -r -o net.o tulip/tulip.o airo.o Space.o setup.o 
net_init.o loopback.o ppp_generic.o slhc.o ppp_async.o ppp_synctty.o 
ppp_deflate.o bsd_comp.o auto_irq.o
ld: cannot open airo.o: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [net.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/net'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/net'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_net] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers'
make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Cory

[Airo-linux-general] passing options to airo.c

[Cory S. <co...@st...>]

      This is a newbie question. Any preferences or recomendations on 
how to pass parameters to airo.c?  I'm running it statically compiled 
into the kernel (no modules).  I was planning on adding an ether= 
parameter to the boot loader, but all the documentation that I can find 
on the ether kernel parameter doesn't indicate that it takes any 
parameters besides address, irq, and name.

    Wold you recomend ehco-ing data into the appropriate field in the 
/proc directory?

Thanks,
Cory

[Airo-linux-general] ad hoc mode - link quality goes to 176 and never returns

[Ian C. <id...@en...>]

I'm doing some ad hoc networking with the Aironet 350 cards (firmware
4.25.23) on Linux 2.4 (with airo-Linux driver).  Sometimes one or more
of the nodes link quality goes to 176 and I can't get them to return to
the ad hoc network.  The only way I've found is to restart pcmcia and
then set all the nodes to a new essid.
Also, I've experimented with moving nodes in and out of range of each
other, often I see the same behavior.  They work, then move out of
range, then move into range and they don't reconnect (the link quality
stays at 176 forever).  
Has anyone had similar experiences?  Does anyone know the reason (or a
solution) to this problem?
Thanks,
Ian Chakeres 

[Fwd: Re: [Airo-linux-general] compiling for a Cisco 350]

[Cory S. <co...@st...>]

    Thanks, that got it to compile.

Cory

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Airo-linux-general] compiling for a Cisco 350
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 09:33:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Benjamin Reed <br...@ya...>
To: co...@st..., air...@li...
CC: co...@st...



Yes, that is a problem we corrected in CVS, but
evidently we haven't sent it to the kernel guys.
The problem is that  __devinitdata is on the wrong
side of the =.  It should be:

static struct pci_device_id card_ids[] __devinitdata =
{

ben

--- Cory Steers  wrote:
> Hello.  I'm new to the list.  I have a Cisco 350 PCI
> card and an 
> external directional antenna comming in the mail, as
> a package I'm 
> purchasing for high speed internet access.  Don't
> have the card yet, but 
> I thought I'd get started on updating my kernel. 
> I've tried a 2.4.7 and 
> 2.4.17 kernel, and can't get the airo driver
> compiled statically into 
> the kernel.  I can get it compiled as a module, but
> I'm not confident 
> that it will work just because it compiled.  This is
> a desktop machine, 
> but do I need pcmcia compiled into the kernel to
> make this work?  I'm 
> just relying on the code that came with the kernels,
> should I patch the 
> kernel with some other code?
> 
> 
> Here's a snippit of the config file:
> 
> #
> # Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)
> #
> CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y
> # CONFIG_STRIP is not set
> # CONFIG_WAVELAN is not set
> # CONFIG_ARLAN is not set
> # CONFIG_AIRONET4500 is not set
> # CONFIG_AIRONET4500_NONCS is not set
> # CONFIG_AIRONET4500_PROC is not set
> CONFIG_AIRO=y
> # CONFIG_HERMES is not set
> # CONFIG_PLX_HERMES is not set
> CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y
> 
> ... and here's the error messages I got:
> 
> make -C wireless
> make[3]: Entering directory
> `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/drivers/net/wireless'
> make all_targets
> make[4]: Entering directory
> `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/drivers/net/wireless'
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/include
> -Wall 
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2
> -fomit-frame-pointer 
> -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe
> -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 
> -march=i586    -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c airo.c
> airo.c:50: parse error before `__attribute__'
> airo.c:3228: warning: `airo_pci_remove' defined but
> not used
> make[4]: *** [airo.o] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/drivers/net/wireless'
> make[3]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/drivers/net/wireless'
> make[2]: *** [_subdir_wireless] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/drivers/net'
> make[1]: *** [_subdir_net] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/drivers'
> make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Cory
> 
> 
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Re: [Airo-linux-general] compiling for a Cisco 350

[Benjamin R. <br...@ya...>]

Yes, that is a problem we corrected in CVS, but
evidently we haven't sent it to the kernel guys.
The problem is that  __devinitdata is on the wrong
side of the =.  It should be:

static struct pci_device_id card_ids[] __devinitdata =
{

ben

--- Cory Steers <co...@st...> wrote:
> Hello.  I'm new to the list.  I have a Cisco 350 PCI
> card and an 
> external directional antenna comming in the mail, as
> a package I'm 
> purchasing for high speed internet access.  Don't
> have the card yet, but 
> I thought I'd get started on updating my kernel. 
> I've tried a 2.4.7 and 
> 2.4.17 kernel, and can't get the airo driver
> compiled statically into 
> the kernel.  I can get it compiled as a module, but
> I'm not confident 
> that it will work just because it compiled.  This is
> a desktop machine, 
> but do I need pcmcia compiled into the kernel to
> make this work?  I'm 
> just relying on the code that came with the kernels,
> should I patch the 
> kernel with some other code?
> 
> 
> Here's a snippit of the config file:
> 
> #
> # Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)
> #
> CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y
> # CONFIG_STRIP is not set
> # CONFIG_WAVELAN is not set
> # CONFIG_ARLAN is not set
> # CONFIG_AIRONET4500 is not set
> # CONFIG_AIRONET4500_NONCS is not set
> # CONFIG_AIRONET4500_PROC is not set
> CONFIG_AIRO=y
> # CONFIG_HERMES is not set
> # CONFIG_PLX_HERMES is not set
> CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y
> 
> ... and here's the error messages I got:
> 
> make -C wireless
> make[3]: Entering directory
> `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/drivers/net/wireless'
> make all_targets
> make[4]: Entering directory
> `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/drivers/net/wireless'
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/include
> -Wall 
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2
> -fomit-frame-pointer 
> -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe
> -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 
> -march=i586    -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c airo.c
> airo.c:50: parse error before `__attribute__'
> airo.c:3228: warning: `airo_pci_remove' defined but
> not used
> make[4]: *** [airo.o] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/drivers/net/wireless'
> make[3]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/drivers/net/wireless'
> make[2]: *** [_subdir_wireless] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/drivers/net'
> make[1]: *** [_subdir_net] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/drivers'
> make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Cory
> 
> 
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[Airo-linux-general] compiling for a Cisco 350

[Cory S. <co...@st...>]

Hello.  I'm new to the list.  I have a Cisco 350 PCI card and an 
external directional antenna comming in the mail, as a package I'm 
purchasing for high speed internet access.  Don't have the card yet, but 
I thought I'd get started on updating my kernel.  I've tried a 2.4.7 and 
2.4.17 kernel, and can't get the airo driver compiled statically into 
the kernel.  I can get it compiled as a module, but I'm not confident 
that it will work just because it compiled.  This is a desktop machine, 
but do I need pcmcia compiled into the kernel to make this work?  I'm 
just relying on the code that came with the kernels, should I patch the 
kernel with some other code?


Here's a snippit of the config file:

#
# Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)
#
CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y
# CONFIG_STRIP is not set
# CONFIG_WAVELAN is not set
# CONFIG_ARLAN is not set
# CONFIG_AIRONET4500 is not set
# CONFIG_AIRONET4500_NONCS is not set
# CONFIG_AIRONET4500_PROC is not set
CONFIG_AIRO=y
# CONFIG_HERMES is not set
# CONFIG_PLX_HERMES is not set
CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y

... and here's the error messages I got:

make -C wireless
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/drivers/net/wireless'
make all_targets
make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/drivers/net/wireless'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/include -Wall 
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer 
-fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 
-march=i586    -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c airo.c
airo.c:50: parse error before `__attribute__'
airo.c:3228: warning: `airo_pci_remove' defined but not used
make[4]: *** [airo.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/drivers/net/wireless'
make[3]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/drivers/net/wireless'
make[2]: *** [_subdir_wireless] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/drivers/net'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_net] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17/drivers'
make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Cory

[Airo-linux-general] Notification of failure to send

[Ian C. <id...@en...>]

I'm working on an ad hoc networking protocol called AODV. In this
protocol I need to know when a packet fails to send and the ip address
of the destination of the packet. 
Is this information is available? It looks like issuecommand() might
return this information in the Resp. Would it? Would I need to set any
special flags? It looks like TXCTL_TXEX is already set. How can I access
this information (the data that failed to send) and in what method do
you think I should do it? 
Thanks, 
Ian Chakeres

[Airo-linux-general] Dell TrueMobile 1150

[Jim C. <ji...@pi...>]

I'm trying to determine if there is a Linux driver for the "Dell 
TrueMobile 1150" internal wireless network device on the Inspiron
4100 or 8100.  On Dell's support site a screen shot for setting it 
up under Windows showed an Aironet logo.  But Cisco's web site 
disclaims all knowledge of the brand name "TrueMobile 1150" (or 
anything else 1150).  So, does anyone on the list know, will the 
Aironet driver(s) work, or do you know anything about this equipment
that might help me decide if I can use it?  Thanks very much in 
advance.

Dell's response to a query was, ``It's a DELL network solution!''
Big help.  If Dell (or any other vendor) really wants to sell to the
Linux community, they should clearly identify the chipsets for the 
onboard stuff; otherwise too many people will take advantage of their
30-day return policy.

I'm currently using Proxim Symphony on a Dell Inspiron 3800, and I
want to upgrade both the laptop and the wireless.  When I bought it
I had the same lack of information about Dell's wireless cards, which
again I believed to be Aironet (802.11), but I declined the special
pricing from Dell because I couldn't discover what I was getting.
With an internal device, the decision is much more critical.

		-- jimc