getting the WLAN running

[rsainio]

I just recently got a sortiment of LOOX 720 PDAs and I was happy to
find this group alive. I have already tested both the 2.26 and 2.34
kernels and decided to stay for a while with 2.26.
Today I wanted take a look at the WLAN and I compiled the acx-drivers
and loaded the modules. Unfortunately the firmware files I found for
the chipset were not suitable and I wonder if somebody has the
original FSC-disk and we could try to get them from there. Otherwise I
need to dig down the filesystem when the PDA runs Windows.

Any ideas ???

In fact the errormessage I get might also suggest a problem in driver
though the IO-width seemed to be set 16-bit:

acx: FATAL: firmware upload: data parts at offset 4 don't match
(0xEA001F9C vs. 0x1F9C0000)! I/O timing issues or defective memory,
with DWL-xx0+? ACX_IO_WIDTH=16 may help.

[jan rinze]

I doubt the ACX100 driver works on these kernels.

Jan Rinze.

2011/2/6 rsainio <sai...@t-online.de>

[Tomasz Figa]

Hi,

Have you checked the latest code from ACX100 GIT repo?

Available here:
git://acx100.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/acx100/acx100

You will probably have to modify one of the platform backends (hx4700 or
rx1950, whichever fits the Loox design better) to make it work on Loox, but it
should be doable.

And of course the most interesting version is the mac80211 one.

Best regards
Tomasz Figa

[jan rinze]

The sourceforge webpage seems broken. :-(

2011/2/6 Tomasz Figa <tomas...@gmail.com>

[jan rinze]

Martin seems to have the wifi working in his Android build.
hopefully he will release his sources soon. :-)

Jan Rinze.

2011/2/6 jan rinze <janr...@gmail.com>

[rsainio]

Jep,

This is what I noticed as well as he was referring to suspending and
the ACX100-driver


risto

On Feb 6, 3:37 pm, jan rinze <janri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Martin seems to have the wifi working in his Android build.
> hopefully he will release his sources soon. :-)
>
> Jan Rinze.
>

> 2011/2/6 jan rinze <janri...@gmail.com>

>
> > The sourceforge webpage seems broken. :-(
>

> > 2011/2/6 Tomasz Figa <tomasz.f...@gmail.com>

[rsainio]

Still I think that the firmware is always needed for those cards. It
seems to be a rarity to connect this chipset with PCMCIA-bus == ISA
and not with PCI-bus == Cardbus

risto
BTW is TOFU allowed in this group ?

[jan rinze]

2011/2/6 rsainio <sai...@t-online.de>

Still I think that the firmware is always needed for those cards. It
seems to be a rarity to connect this chipset with PCMCIA-bus == ISA
and not with PCI-bus == Cardbus

risto
BTW is TOFU allowed in this group ?

what is TOFU?

Jan Rinze.

[rsainio]

TOFU == "Text Over, Fullquote Under"
But, this was my error as the reply-editor puts the reply top, but in
fact later it seems to show up properly. Sorry, my first time in
"newsgroup" without a newsreader....

Risto

[jan rinze]

Usually called top-posting ;-)

it seems a lot of people find it hard to understand how to do inline posting.

2011/2/6 rsainio <sai...@t-online.de>

TOFU == "Text Over, Fullquote Under"
But, this was my error as the reply-editor puts the reply top, but in
fact later it seems to show up properly. Sorry, my first time in
"newsgroup" without a newsreader....

this is not a news group, this is a mailing list ;-)

Jan Rinze.

[rsainio]

whatever, but the topic did not move an inch. I think I just fire up
some old PRISM2.5 based CF-cards with hostap for the moment.

risto

This web interface is a sad piece

snip

[Martin]

You are right, I used the ACX100 driver from sourceforge. The version
in my kernel source tree should be almost up to date (my last pull was
about 2 weeks ago). The firmware files I used are on the download page
now, they should work with the sourceforge driver.

Martin

[rsainio]

Update:

I got the kernel 2.6.32 as described in "Android sources" thread plus
the acx drivers and compiled a kernel and modules. Now it loads the
firmware and iwlist scanning shows some APs - looks good.

Short remark: I wonder if the drivers/net/wireless/Makefile needs to
have
obj-$(CONFIG_PCMCIA_ACX) += acx/platform-pcmcia/pcmcia_acx.o

Risto

[rsainio]

Update II:

wpa_supplicant works nicely and logs into WPA-AP. Runs nicely as long
as I do not fiddle around with /sys/.../scaling_governor.

[Piotr Czechowicz]

Hi guys,

It's very nice to see, that the loox port is alive :) you are doing good work.

How about monitor mode of the wlan interface and the possibilty of raw frame injection? Do you think, that tools like aireplay should work with it, or not?

Best regards,
Piotr Czechowicz.

[Martin]

On 12 Feb., 15:12, rsainio <sai...@t-online.de> wrote:
> Short remark: I wonder if the drivers/net/wireless/Makefile needs to
> have
> obj-$(CONFIG_PCMCIA_ACX) += acx/platform-pcmcia/pcmcia_acx.o

I think drivers/net/wireless/Makefile is ok, the pcmcia_acx module is
taken care of by the line

obj-m += acx/

which includes the Makefile in drivers/net/wireless/acx and
subsequently also in drivers/net/wireless/acx/platform-pcmcia. Just
make sure your kernel configuration contains

CONFIG_ACX_MAC80211=m
CONFIG_ACX_MAC80211_MEM=y
CONFIG_ACX_MAC80211_PCMCIA=m

Martin

[Martin]

On 13 Feb., 00:01, Piotr Czechowicz <p.czechow...@admitech.pl> wrote:
> How about monitor mode of the wlan interface and the possibilty of raw frame injection? Do you think, that tools like aireplay should work with it, or not?

I never tried, so I cannot tell. You may ask the people at
http://acx100.sourceforge.net. If they say it works, it should work
with the Loox as well.

Martin