Wireless doesn't work with homebrew kernel after this update.

[Cian Masterson]

Possibly not the forum for this (someone please point me to the right
one if not), but in case anyone else is interested...

I discovered that when I uploaded the kernel I compiled myself to the
ADP1 after applying this update the wifi didn't work. This is because
the kernel localversion has changed and the closed-source wireless
module no longer matches. Changing the kernel CONFIG_LOCALVERSION &
recompiling worked a treat.

The kernel local version can be obtained by looking at /proc/version

cianer@Feegle:~$ adb pull /proc/version .
2 KB/s (138 bytes in 0.045s)
cianer@Feegle:~$ cat version
Linux version 2.6.25-01845-g85d4f0d (android-
bu...@apa27.mtv.corp.google.com) (gcc version 4.2.1) #27 PREEMPT Wed
Jan 7 23:49:49 PST 2009
cianer@Feegle:~$


In this case it is -01845-g85d4f0d (the 1.0 kernel was -01843-
gfea26b0). So open up the .config file and change the relevant lines,
thus:

CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-01845-g85d4f0d"
# CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is not set


Recompile the kernel & Bob's your Auntie's special friend. Bluetooth
still doesn't work though, not sure what the problem is there. It
just says "Unable to turn on Bluetooth".

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

You're probably looking for the android-kernel forum. This forum will
help you put the official builds back on your device when you're done
experimenting, should you need help.

Thanks,
JBQ

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