This patch prints microcode revision, patchlevel, date and time to
KERN_INFO. Also, version 4.xx microcodes (rev>0x128) will be rejected
by the driver, because they still do not work.
Signed-off-by: Martin Langer <martin-langer@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch removes code that was make obsolete when the wireless
statistics in bcm43xx-softmac were changed, but was overlooked at that
time. The value of bcm->stats.link_quality computed here is never used.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds bitrate information to the scan result in the Prism54
driver, like some/most other driver do.
Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Inspired by an e-mail by Stephen Hemminger I decided to remove all
unneeded packed attributes from the code where the member variables are
already aligned. This avoids horrible code being generated on some
architectures.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tested by Vincent TOUCHARD
zd1211 chip 0b05:170c v4802 high 00-11-d8 AL2230_RF pa0 g---
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tested by Martin Dummer.
zd1211 chip 0b3b:5630 v4330 high 00-01-e3 RF2959_RF pa0 ---
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes an out of sequence step in the bcm43xx_init_board
routine for bcm43xx-softmac.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This fixes various bugs in the init and shutdown code
that would lead to lockups and crashes.
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Caused by a documentation issue I mixed up fields of the zd_status
structure. This patch fixes it and improves also the average
computation, which is now using only measurements of packets sent
by the access point.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Found by inspection. The STRIP driver does neigh_lookup() but never
releases. This driver shouldn't being doing gratuitous arp anyway.
Untested, obviously, because of lack of hardware.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch sets the floor of wireless level (signal) and noise at
-110 dBm, which makes them be comatible with RCPI, as discussed by
Simon Barber. With this change, bcm43xx-softmac and bcm43xx-d80211
behave the same.
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When bcm43xx-softmac is given an ifdown/ifup sequence, the value for
bcm->mac_suspended ends up wrong, which leads to a large number of
assert(bcm->mac_suspended>=0) messages. This one-line patch fixes
this problem.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch enables the ipw2200 driver to support passive scanning as
offered by the wireless extensions. For this, I enhanced the ipw_wx_set_scan
function in such a way that it differentiates between a passive and an
active scan request. Additionally, I added a new function called
ipw_request_passive_scan that is similiar to the ipw_request_scan
function to perform passive scans. Last but not least, I added a field
(in fact it is a work_struct struct) called request_passive_scan to
the ipw_priv struct.
Signed-off-by: Thomas King <king@informatik.uni-mannheim.de>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fix by removing dependency between priv->action_sem and rtnl semaphore.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If we don't disable the card in the pci .shutdown method, there might be
pending interrupts still in the interrupt line after a reboot on some
platform. This patch fixes the problem by disable the hardware in the pci
.shutdown method.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When command error log debug is enabled, we write every host command and
parameters into a buffer. But we didn't alloc the parameter buffer for this
case. The patch adds struct cmdlog_host_cmd so that the buffer is allocated
from the stack.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The ipw2200 firmware/ucode only support values from 0 to 254. So mark 255
as invalid.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_TSFT is defined as the Value in microseconds of the
MAC's 64-bit 802.11 Time Synchronization Function timer when the first bit
of the MPDU arrived at the MAC. Since ipw2200 hardware doesn't provide this
value, we disable this feature from the radiotap header present flag.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch traps the case when the essid is being set to its
current value. If the essid is being set again and we are already
associated, chances are some other parameters have also been altered.
I think it is safer to do the re-association for this case.
Signed-off-by: Bill Moss <bmoss@clemson.edu>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch cleanups the ipw_wx_set_essid code and forces a reassociation
when setting the essid to "any". I have tested this patch with iwconfig. It
makes ipw2200 compliant with all the cases mentioned in the iwconfig man
page. The commands
iwconfig iface essid any
iwconfig iface essid -- any
iwconfig iface essid off
iwconfig iface essid on
all seemed to work correctly. None of this worked before the patch.
Note, this patch treats
iwconfig iface essid
iwconfig iface essid ""
The same. It produces an error message: essid: Unknown host.
Since an essid of "" is not mentioned in the iwconfig man page.
Signed-off-by: Bill Moss <bmoss@clemson.edu>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The SIOCGIWFREQ ioctl fills the request structure's freq field by setting
the exponent to 0 and the mantissa to the current channel number. The
iwconfig tool works around this behaviour by looking up the frequency
from the channel table if a frequency below 1kHz is returned, other tools
(e.g. kwlaninfo) don't. According to the comment in the iwconfig source
the driver is supposed to return the frequency, not the channel number.
Signed-off-by: Ingo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Moving part of the debugging code from IPW_DEBUG to IPW_LL_DEBUG (low level
debugging) and make IPW_DEBUG be always enabled. IPW_LL_DEBUG still needs
to be enabled by selecting CONFIG_IPW2200_DEBUG. But it is highly
deprecated for normal users since it adds higher debug verbosity in driver
hot paths.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
hard_start_xmit should return a NETIF_TX_FOO error code.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Convert the bitfields in the bcm43xx DMA code to properly
aligned u8 booleans. These flags are accessed in the DMA
hotpath, so it's a good idea to waste a few bytes of memory
for the sake of speed by not requiring masking (and probably
shifting) of the bitfields.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Don't rely on linux/if_arp.h being included by other headers
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
SPARC architecture has been fixed, so it's no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Calls to bcm43xx_rng_init() and bcm43xx_rng_exit() got
lost due to merge trouble. Re-add them.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is a rewrite of the bcm43xx DMA engine. It adds support
for >1G of memory (for chips that support the extension bits)
and 64-bit DMA (for chips that support it).
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The airo driver is currently caching a pid for later use, but with the
implementation of containers, pids themselves do not uniquely identify a
task. The driver is also using kernel_thread() which is deprecated in
drivers.
This patch essentially replaces the kernel_thread() with kthread_create().
It also stores the task_struct of the airo_thread rather than its pid.
Since this introduces a second task_struct in struct airo_info, the patch
renames airo_info.task to airo_info.list_bss_task.
As an extension of these changes, the patch further:
- replaces kill_proc() with kthread_stop()
- replaces signal_pending() with kthread_should_stop()
- removes thread completion synchronisation which is handled by
kthread_stop().
[akpm@osdl.org: fix races]
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Javier Achirica <achirica@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Intersil firmware 1.7.4 (and possibly others) loses the antenna
selection settings when the port is reset.
Signed-off-by: David Acker <dacker@roinet.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This bug was introduced during the PCMCIA API conversion and broke
spectrum_cs completely.
Tracked down by Fredrik Tolf <fredrik@dolda2000.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
From: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
This patch removes the dependency on ieee80211.h from
the ray_cs driver. ray_cs only needs iw_handler.h.
Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add static to 2 internal functions. Thanks goes to Adrian Bunk, who found that.
Also made some modifications to the clear functions:
After a discussion on the mailing list, I implemented this code to
have on the one hand sufficient test in debug mode, but on the
other hand reduce the overhead for structure clearing to a
minimum.
A new macro ZD_MEMCLEAR is introduced, which produces code if
DEBUG is set. Locks are not set anymore for structure clearing,
but in debug mode, there is a verification, that the locks have
not been set.
Finally, removed a misleading comment regarding locking in the disconnect
path.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The Longshine device is a ZD1211B and has a AL2230 RF. I tested it
successfully with no encryption and WEP.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some devices identify themselves as a virtual USB CDROM drive. The virtual CD
includes the windows driver. We aren't interested in this, so we eject the
virtual CDROM and then the real wireless device appears.
Patch fixed over the earlier version to not leak cmd, thanks to Michael Buesch
for spotting that.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
zd1211 chip 0586:3402 v4916 high 00-13-49 AL2230_RF pa0 ----
This device pops up after the virtual driver CD has been ejected.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is needed for my G220F, otherwise it fails to initialize after the
existing firmware upload routine.
The vendor driver actually does more than what I have done here: it
downloads the firmware + boot code, modifies it, and uploads it again
(really messy). I have not copied that part over, as my device can get
on its feet without it.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tested by Wonka on IRC.
zd1211 chip 157e:3204 v4810 high 00-11-e0 AL7230B_RF pa0 g---
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tested by lyakh on IRC
zd1211 chip 1740:2000 v4721 high 00-02-6f AL7230B_RF pa0 g---
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds support for another Airoha RF which is present in some
ZD1211 adapters. This RF supports 802.11a as well as 802.11b/g, but 802.11a
connectivity is not yet supported by this driver.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch synchronizes our code to some recent vendor driver modifications.
A new PHY layout is supported, some values are tweaked, and the AL2230 is now
programmed over a new interface which is many times faster.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The vendor driver resets the IFS value every time the channel changes,
to this one.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The vendor driver chooses this value based on an ifndef ASIC,
and ASIC is never defined.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
I had problems with my AVM Fritz!Box access point. It appeared
that the AP deauthorized me and the softmac didn't reconnect me.
This patch handles the problem.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Discovered a problem while accessing www.python.org on my PPC32.
The problem was pretty consistent for all sticks. The reason was
that while testing for the length info tag, I ignored the
endianess of the host system.
Please recognize that converting the constant to little endian, we
create faster code.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This function is never called in interrupt context, and it doesn't
matter if it is called in IRQ context or not.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Apparently the ZD1211 doesn't mind, but the ZD1211B absolutely must be
told that encryption is happening in software.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We'll be needing these at some point...
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There has been a problem in the radiotap header. Monitor mode
works now with tcpdump 3.94 + libpcap 0.9.4. ethereal 0.99.0 +
libpcap 0.9.4 is broken, because it doesn't find the right offset
for the IEEE 802.11 header.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fix-up missing mac_suspended initialization which resulted from
Linville's sloppy patch mangling.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This minor patch for wireless-2.6 (softmac) adjusts the parameters of
the wireless statistics to improve the display of programs such as the
"Wireless Network Information" applet of KDE. Thanks to Dan Williams
and Jean Tourrilhes for valuable help in setting up the return of
info in dBm.
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Rewrite of the bcm43xx initialization routines.
This fixes several issues:
* up-down-up-down-up... stale data issue
(May fix some DHCP issues)
* Fix the init vs IRQ handler race (and remove the workaround)
* Fix init for cards with multiple cores (APHY)
As softmac has no internal PHY handling (unlike dscape),
this adds the file "phymode" to sysfs.
The active PHY can be selected by writing either a, b or g
to this file. Current PHY can be determined by reading from it.
* Fix the controller restart code.
Controller restart can now also be triggered through
echo 1 > /debug/bcm43xx/ethX/restart
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This fixes mac_suspend reference counting for
ifconfig up
ifconfig down
ifconfig up
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Microoptimization:
This reduces the udelay in bcm43xx_mac_suspend.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Suspend MAC (and make MAC-suspend refcounting) when doing
long periodic work.
On long periodic work, we disable IRQs on the device, so
we don't want the MAC to stay operating and probably miss
packets due do non-delivery of interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add WE-19 capabilities to prism54 fullmac driver so that it supports the
necessary Wireless Extensions WPA calls. Convert reporting of WPA/RSN
Generic Information Elements to IWEVGENIE rather than pre-WE-19
IWEVCUSTOM as well.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
wireless.h discourages using SIOCGIWNAME to publish the driver name
which the interface belongs to. Use SIOCGIWNICKN instead.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
ipw2200 uses // comments, and uses them for removing unneeded
code. Clean it up a bit.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When determining whether there's a key to set or not, orinoco should be
looking at the key length, not the key data. Otherwise confusion reigns
when trying to set TX key only, passing in zero-length key, but non-NULL
pointer. Key length takes precedence over non-NULL key data.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Johann Uhrmann reported a bcm43xx crash and Michael Buesch tracked
it down to a problem with the new shared key auth code (recursive
calls into the driver)
This patch (effectively Michael's patch with a couple of small
modifications) solves the problem by sending the authentication
challenge response frame from a workqueue entry.
I also removed a lone \n from the bcm43xx messages relating to
authentication mode - this small change was previously discussed but
not patched in.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The driver airo (for Cisco Wlan-Cards) complains about "failed to load
transform for AES", when it is loaded and CRYPTO_AES is not selected
in Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
zd1201 has nasty tendency to emit magicall anti-wifi cloud when it is
inserted into slot, but not used.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use release_firmware() to free requested resources.
According to Documentation/firmware_class/README the request_firmware()
call should be followed by a release_firmware(). Some drivers do not
however free the firmware previously allocated with request_firmware().
This patch tries to fix this by making sure that release_firmware() is used
as expected.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Based on a patch by Matthieu CASTET.
zd1211 chip 079b:004a v4330 high 00-60-b3 AL2230_RF pa0 g--
zd1211b chip 079b:0062 v4810 high 00-60-b3 AL2230_RF pa0 g--
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch improves the statistics returned from
bcm43xx_get_wireless_stats. The signal level comes from smoothing the
"rssi" value returned by the firmware after it is converted into a
dBm value by the driver. The quality value is a hack derived from the
smoothed level and an assumed RX_POWER_MAX of -10 dBM. The noise value
is still the one calculated from the clean-room formula. On my system,
this is roughly -65 dBm, which seems too high.
The revised version uses the ieee80211 spinlock to protect traversing
of the network list.
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds voluntary preemption points into the
PHY calibration loops to allow non-CONFIG_PREEMPT machines
to not suffer from huge delays.
CONFIG_PREEMPT machines are already fine, because all this
code is run in non-atomic process context.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
As many people don't seem to like the locking "obfuscation"
in the bcm43xx driver, this patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We will reimplement halt-clearing later, when we have periodic
housekeeping routines in place. This will do as a temporary fix, the
EPIPE case has not yet been seen.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
An assert statement near the start of handle_irq_noise in the softmac
version of bcm43xx_main.c is there to protect against out of bound
addressing using variable bcm->noisecalc.nr_samples. The arrays in
question have a dimension of 8, thus the value must be < 8.
Signed-Off-By: Larry.Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are 60+ USB wifi adapters available on the market based on the ZyDAS
ZD1211 chip.
Unlike the predecessor (ZD1201), ZD1211 does not have a hardware MAC, so most
data operations are coordinated by the device driver. The ZD1211 chip sits
alongside an RF transceiver which is also controlled by the driver. Our driver
currently supports 2 RF types, we know of one other available in a few marketed
products which we will be supporting soon.
Our driver also supports the newer revision of ZD1211, called ZD1211B. The
initialization and RF operations are slightly different for the new revision,
but the main difference is 802.11e support. Our driver does not support the
QoS features yet, but we think we know how to use them.
This driver is based on ZyDAS's own GPL driver available from www.zydas.com.tw.
ZyDAS engineers have been responsive and supportive of our efforts, so thumbs
up to them. Additionally, the firmware is redistributable and they have
provided device specs.
This driver has been written primarily by Ulrich Kunitz and myself. Graham
Gower, Greg KH, Remco and Bryan Rittmeyer have also contributed. The
developers of ieee80211 and softmac have made our lives so much easier- thanks!
We maintain a small info-page: http://zd1211.ath.cx/wiki/DriverRewrite
If there is enough time for review, we would like to aim for inclusion in
2.6.18. The driver works nicely as a STA, and can connect to both open and
encrypted networks (we are using software-based encryption for now). We will
work towards supporting more advanced features in the future (ad-hoc, master
mode, 802.11a, ...).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
I recently patched softmac to enable shared key authentication. This small patch
will enable crazy or unfortunate bcm43xx users to use this new capability.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The current version of bcm43xx-softmac uses local routines to check
if a channel is valid. As noted in the comments, these routines do
not take any regulatory information into account. This patch converts
the code to use the equivalent routine in ieee80211, which is being
converted to know about regulatory information.
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Place the Init-vs-IRQ workaround before any card register
access, because we might not have the wireless core mapped
at all times in init. So this will result in a Machine Check
caused by a bus error.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use Softmac-suggested TX ratecode:
ieee80211softmac_suggest_txrate()
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds device IDs for Symbol LA-4123 and Global Sun Tech
GL24110P to the HostAP PLX driver.
This is not tested with real hardware, but there is no reason why it
shouldn't work.
Please test.
Signed-off-by: Faidon Liambotis <faidon@cube.gr>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 15:45 -0700, Miles Lane wrote:
> Okay, I rebuilt my kernel with your combo patch applied.
> Then, I inserted my US Robotics USR2210 PCMCIA wifi card,
> ran "pccardutil eject", popped out the card and then inserted
> a Compaq iPaq wifi card. This triggered the following.
>
> [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> -------------------------------------------------------
> syslogd/1886 is trying to acquire lock:
> (&dev->queue_lock){-+..}, at: [<c11a50b5>] dev_queue_xmit+0x120/0x24b
>
> but task is already holding lock:
> (&dev->_xmit_lock){-+..}, at: [<c11a5118>] dev_queue_xmit+0x183/0x24b
>
> which lock already depends on the new lock.
ok this appears to be hostap playing games... it has 2 network devices
for one piece of hardware and one calls the other via the networking
layer; there is thankfully a natural ordering between the two, so just
making the slave one a separate type ought to make this work.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
include/linux/version.h contained both actual KERNEL version
and UTS_RELEASE that contains a subset from git SHA1 for when
kernel was compiled as part of a git repository.
This had the unfortunate side-effect that all files including version.h
would be recompiled when some git changes was made due to changes SHA1.
Split it out so we keep independent parts in separate files.
Also update checkversion.pl script to no longer check for UTS_RELEASE.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
