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Re: [ANNOUNCE]bleeding-edge WIFI drivers in extras-devel

Thanks, for this app it's really useful. But lately I get following error:

Quote:

Error while loading kernel modules
ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
Error while starting wlan0 interface
Drivers were not loaded

any ideas?

Re: [ANNOUNCE]bleeding-edge WIFI drivers in extras-devel

Quote:

Originally Posted by artishox (Post 1213774)

Thanks, for this app it's really useful. But lately I get following error:

any ideas?

I believe this started when I updated from pk49 to pk50

Re: [ANNOUNCE]bleeding-edge WIFI drivers in extras-devel

Quote:

Originally Posted by artishox (Post 1213992)

I believe this started when I updated from pk49 to pk50

maybe try reinstalling drivers from extras-devel?

Re: [ANNOUNCE]bleeding-edge WIFI drivers in extras-devel

@artishox

KP49 drivers wont work you must have the correct injection drivers for KP50 :) download it from here and extract it and then select the file from the applet this should work

./sifo

Re: [ANNOUNCE]bleeding-edge WIFI drivers in extras-devel

Quote:

Originally Posted by sifo (Post 1214028)

@artishox

KP49 drivers wont work you must have the correct injection drivers for KP50 :) download it from here and extract it and then select the file from the applet this should work

./sifo

Read the first post, they are included in this package, however one must edit the load.sh script to use the paths provided by this package:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# Save mac address

MACADDR="`ifconfig wlan0 | sed -n 's/.*HWaddr \([0-9A-Fa-f:]\+\).*/\1/p'`"

# Unload wifi modules

rmmod wl1251_spi 2>/dev/null

rmmod wl1251 2>/dev/null

rmmod wl12xx 2>/dev/null

rmmod mac80211 2>/dev/null

rmmod cfg80211 2>/dev/null

rmmod rfkill_backport 2>/dev/null

rmmod compat_firmware_class 2>/dev/null

rmmod compat 2>/dev/null

# Load bleeding-edge wl1251

insmod /home/opt/lib/2.6.28.10-power50/updates/compat/compat.ko

insmod /home/opt/lib/2.6.28.10-power50/updates/net/rfkill/rfkill_backport.ko

insmod /home/opt/lib/2.6.28.10-power50/updates/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko

insmod /home/opt/lib/2.6.28.10-power50/updates/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko

insmod /home/opt/lib/2.6.28.10-power50/updates/drivers/net/wireless/wl1251/wl1251.ko

insmod /home/opt/lib/2.6.28.10-power50/updates/drivers/net/wireless/wl1251/wl1251_spi.ko

# Restore mac address

ifconfig wlan0 down hw ether "$MACADDR"

iw reg set EU

ifconfig wlan0 up

Re: [ANNOUNCE]bleeding-edge WIFI drivers in extras-devel

Quote:

Originally Posted by artishox (Post 1213774)

Thanks, for this app it's really useful

...and, honestly, it's not an "app", by any means. Really.

Re: [ANNOUNCE]bleeding-edge WIFI drivers in extras-devel

If I were you I would've stated what the module path is in the package description for the convenience of those who need to know where they are - not that you can't figure it out otherwise, just be faster that way.

Oh, also, you're really awesome for finally doing this. The lack of a standardized place for these drivers, or any apt-based way to add these drivers to a device during install of something that depends on them, has been a very irritating situation. (I've been meaning to eventually do this myself, but I am a hopelessly broadly interested individual who has way too many things going on in my life at any time to actually get everything I want to get done done. This being one of those things, like almost everything else I want to do with the N900 / Maemo.) So thank you.

As for lxp, and whether or not he wants to be the maintainer - I would e-mail him, in my experience he responds to e-mails, but doesn't necessarily pay attention to what's going on here.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Estel (Post 1196951)

+ lack of power-saving features, when connected to AP but not transferring data ;)

I'm still unsure about this being a significant problem. Has anyone ever tested how much power is used with one driver vs. the other?

Re: [ANNOUNCE]bleeding-edge WIFI drivers in extras-devel

Last time I checked, it was sucking power like ad-hoc, when connected to AP, but idle. = quite much. I must admit, that I haven't performed any recent tests.

Would do it right now, but I'm on ad-hoc-only network anyway ATM, so ambient conditions are not allowing me to.

/Estel