On Monday 04 January 2010 22:51:40 Oncaphillis wrote:
Did any of the patches for a device without a sprom make it
into the 2.6.33-rc2 ?
No we decided that the patches were not acceptable and need a rewrite towards
firmware loading mechanism.
Nobody's currently doing that, though.
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On 01/05/2010 08:27 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
On 01/05/2010 11:18 AM, Michael Buesch wrote:
On Monday 04 January 2010 22:51:40 Oncaphillis wrote:
Did any of the patches for a device without a sprom make it
into the 2.6.33-rc2 ?
No we decided that the patches were not
On 11/19/2009 12:30 PM, Michael Buesch wrote:
On Thursday 19 November 2009 12:16:46 Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/19/2009 12:09 PM, Michael Buesch wrote:
On Thursday 19 November 2009 12:07:30 Oncaphillis wrote:
So I'm at a loss here, but if someone comes up with a bright
idea to test or needs
On Friday 20 November 2009 02:41:58 Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/20/2009 12:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/19/2009 06:44 PM, Michael Buesch wrote:
On Thursday 19 November 2009 16:41:12 Michael Buesch wrote:
Wait, that still can't work. I'll fix it soon...
Ok, here's the updated version.
On 11/20/2009 10:27 AM, Michael Buesch wrote:
On Friday 20 November 2009 02:41:58 Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/20/2009 12:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/19/2009 06:44 PM, Michael Buesch wrote:
On Thursday 19 November 2009 16:41:12 Michael Buesch wrote:
Wait, that still can't work. I'll fix it
On Friday 20 November 2009 11:29:20 Oncaphillis wrote:
Ok -- Some more details about my experience that it appears to be slow.
Note that there are several issues. First one being the sprom calibration
values being _wrong_ for your card. Second one is LP-PHY performance being
crappy in
general
On 11/20/2009 04:54 AM, Michael Buesch wrote:
On Friday 20 November 2009 11:29:20 Oncaphillis wrote:
Ok -- Some more details about my experience that it appears to be slow.
Note that there are several issues. First one being the sprom calibration
values being _wrong_ for your card. Second
On 20/11/09 10:54, Michael Buesch wrote:
Can somebody give me a genuine SPROM image for an LP-PHY card, please?
Just do this:
sudo cat $(find /sys/devices -name ssb_sprom) ssb_sprom_copy
Does this help?
Andy
ssb_sprom_copy
Description: Binary data
So I'm at a loss here, but if someone comes up with a bright
idea to test or needs more informations I'm willing to test
the resulting code on my machine.
Sebastian
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On Thursday 19 November 2009 12:07:30 Oncaphillis wrote:
So I'm at a loss here, but if someone comes up with a bright
idea to test or needs more informations I'm willing to test
the resulting code on my machine.
Erm, no. Can you please answer the questions that you didn't answer, yet?
On 11/19/2009 12:09 PM, Michael Buesch wrote:
On Thursday 19 November 2009 12:07:30 Oncaphillis wrote:
So I'm at a loss here, but if someone comes up with a bright
idea to test or needs more informations I'm willing to test
the resulting code on my machine.
Erm, no. Can you please
Erm, no. Can you please answer the questions that you didn't answer, yet?
Especially the request for the original vendor driver.
oh sorry. I did that, but the mail only went to larry -- stupid me -- the
device didn't come with a CD/DVD and I killed Windows XP right away.
Sorry
Can you please try the following patch?
http://bu3sch.de/patches/wireless-testing/20091119-1349/patches/002-ssb-rewrite-sprom-fallback-mechanism.patch
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On 11/19/2009 01:49 PM, Michael Buesch wrote:
Can you please try the following patch?
http://bu3sch.de/patches/wireless-testing/20091119-1349/patches/002-ssb-rewrite-sprom-fallback-mechanism.patch
That seems to freeze my kernel. I tell you more in a couple of hours.
On Thursday 19 November 2009 14:26:42 Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/19/2009 01:49 PM, Michael Buesch wrote:
Can you please try the following patch?
http://bu3sch.de/patches/wireless-testing/20091119-1349/patches/002-ssb-rewrite-sprom-fallback-mechanism.patch
That seems to freeze my
On Thursday 19 November 2009 16:27:01 Michael Buesch wrote:
On Thursday 19 November 2009 14:26:42 Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/19/2009 01:49 PM, Michael Buesch wrote:
Can you please try the following patch?
On Thursday 19 November 2009 16:41:12 Michael Buesch wrote:
Wait, that still can't work. I'll fix it soon...
Ok, here's the updated version. Please test this:
http://bu3sch.de/patches/wireless-testing/20091119-1842/patches/002-ssb-rewrite-sprom-fallback-mechanism.patch
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On 11/19/2009 06:44 PM, Michael Buesch wrote:
On Thursday 19 November 2009 16:41:12 Michael Buesch wrote:
Wait, that still can't work. I'll fix it soon...
Ok, here's the updated version. Please test this:
On 11/20/2009 12:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/19/2009 06:44 PM, Michael Buesch wrote:
On Thursday 19 November 2009 16:41:12 Michael Buesch wrote:
Wait, that still can't work. I'll fix it soon...
Ok, here's the updated version. Please test this:
On 11/18/2009 08:54 AM, Peter Stuge wrote:
Oncaphillis wrote:
So as far as I understand both the early kernel as well as lspci
think that the mmio area of the Broadcom chip is located at
5710 only ssb gets the wrong address. It gets set in ssbioremap
via pci_iomap.
After the
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Larry Finger larry.fin...@lwfinger.net wrote:
On 11/18/2009 08:34 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
The first ioread16 actually succeeds, only the second one fails.
My lspci -vnn tells me that the memory is:
Memory at 5710 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
On 11/18/2009 06:15 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
On 11/18/2009 08:34 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
The first ioread16 actually succeeds, only the second one fails.
My lspci -vnn tells me that the memory is:
Memory at 5710 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Could it be that one has to make a
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 18:36:12 Oncaphillis wrote:
Index: wireless-testing/drivers/ssb/pci.c
===
--- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/ssb/pci.c
+++ wireless-testing/drivers/ssb/pci.c
@@ -251,10 +251,16 @@ static int
On 11/18/2009 11:36 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
I already tried something similar. Unfortunately I can not report in detail
right now since I've once again killed my kernel and my acer stands at
home.
I'll give more details in a couple of hours -- but the punch line is:
(1) if I transform the
On 11/18/2009 06:51 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
After you get access to the machine, please try my patch. It has been tested
here. The first few lines from the output are:
ssb: Entering sprom_do_read
ssb: Read 0x2801 from SPROM
ssb: Read 0x103C137C from SPROM
ssb: Read 0x6DBE0078 from SPROM
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 23:07:29 Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/18/2009 06:51 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
After you get access to the machine, please try my patch. It has been tested
here. The first few lines from the output are:
ssb: Entering sprom_do_read
ssb: Read 0x2801 from SPROM
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 23:53:42 Michael Buesch wrote:
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 23:07:29 Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/18/2009 06:51 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
After you get access to the machine, please try my patch. It has been
tested
here. The first few lines from the output
Please keep it on-list. This is really important to get this debugged properly.
On Thursday 19 November 2009 00:23:18 Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/18/2009 11:59 PM, Michael Buesch wrote:
What kind of device is that? Some laptop? I only knew about embedded
devices
using these wireless cards
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Michael Buesch m...@bu3sch.de wrote:
Please keep it on-list. This is really important to get this debugged
properly.
On Thursday 19 November 2009 00:23:18 Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/18/2009 11:59 PM, Michael Buesch wrote:
What kind of device is that? Some
On 11/18/2009 05:57 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
Hmm... this kinda reminds me of when the SPROM died on my Asus 4318,
causing it to display as a 14e4:0008, and freeze immediately upon
any SPROM read/write attempt. Quite possibly we have something similar
here (there is an SPROM, but it's broken -
Is it this device?
http://hax0rpedia.com/index.php/Disassembeling_the_AAO_D250
Can you open the lower-right cover shown here:
http://hax0rpedia.com/index.php/File:Aao_d250_step2.jpg
and take a closeup picture of the wireless card?
Also probably a picture of the backside of the card.
On Thursday 19 November 2009 01:26:41 Oncaphillis wrote:
Is it this device?
http://hax0rpedia.com/index.php/Disassembeling_the_AAO_D250
Can you open the lower-right cover shown here:
http://hax0rpedia.com/index.php/File:Aao_d250_step2.jpg
and take a closeup picture of the wireless
Michael Buesch wrote:
Hmm, surprise surprise. The slot is empty. They seem to have moved
it onto the motherborad.
Whoa, sick man. :)
So I think there's a fair chance that there's no sprom at all, if
the device is on-board.
One idea is to look up the FCC ID of the laptop in the FCC
Thanks for posting the dmesg. In looking through it, the only thing I noticed
was the following:
[ 25.844834](523 KHz - 533 KHz @ 4 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300
mBm)
[ 25.844844](5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 4 KHz), (600 mBi, 3000
mBm)
[ 25.845455] cfg80211:
On 11/16/2009 05:03 PM, Oncaphillis wrote:
Which gives:
snip
[9.972581] In sprom_do_read with sprom address 0xF8079000
/snip
This address is also calculated in ssbioremap
You may have a look at the full dmesg under:
http://oncaphillis.net/dmesg-aspire-d250.txt
Thanks
On Saturday 14 November 2009 21:20:28 Michael Buesch wrote:
Yeah, ok. That doesn't seem to be a bug in b43 then. It's the CRDA subsystem
waiting for a userspace daemon. But it won't finish waiting, because userspace
is not running, yet. I guess running cfg80211 as module is an acceptable
On 11/15/2009 03:40 PM, Michael Buesch wrote:
On Saturday 14 November 2009 21:20:28 Michael Buesch wrote:
Yeah, ok. That doesn't seem to be a bug in b43 then. It's the CRDA subsystem
waiting for a userspace daemon. But it won't finish waiting, because
userspace
is not running, yet. I guess
Oncaphillis wrote:
I poked around in the sbb code and found that ssb_do_read never
returns:
snip
static int sprom_do_read(struct ssb_bus *bus, u16 *sprom)
You wrote ssb_do_read above, this is sprom_do_read. Maybe they call
each other?
So I guess the mmio address is wrong. It is set to
On 11/13/2009 08:20 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
On 11/13/2009 11:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
Thanks for the tip. But it still hangs
We still need to know where it hangs. If you boot to console mode (type a 3 on
the option line in GRUB), does it boot? If it does not, what is the last line
shown
On 11/14/2009 12:24 PM, Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/13/2009 08:20 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
On 11/13/2009 11:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
Thanks for the tip. But it still hangs
We still need to know where it hangs. If you boot to console mode (type a 3
on
the option line in GRUB), does it
On 11/14/2009 07:37 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
So it seems to me it doesn't even reach the loading of p43.ko
but gets stuck in the cfg80211 layer.
We can test that hypothesis. Generate a kernel without b43. Once it boots, enter
the following commands as root:
modprobe -v rfkill
modprobe -v
On 11/14/2009 04:42 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
On 11/14/2009 07:37 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
So it seems to me it doesn't even reach the loading of p43.ko
but gets stuck in the cfg80211 layer.
We can test that hypothesis. Generate a kernel without b43. Once it boots,
enter
the following commands
On 11/14/2009 08:45 PM, Michael Buesch wrote:
On Saturday 14 November 2009 12:24:24 Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/13/2009 08:20 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
On 11/13/2009 11:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
Thanks for the tip. But it still hangs
We still need to know where it hangs. If you boot to
On Saturday 14 November 2009 12:24:24 Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/13/2009 08:20 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
On 11/13/2009 11:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
Thanks for the tip. But it still hangs
We still need to know where it hangs. If you boot to console mode (type a 3
on
the option line
On Saturday 14 November 2009 21:03:09 Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/14/2009 08:45 PM, Michael Buesch wrote:
On Saturday 14 November 2009 12:24:24 Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/13/2009 08:20 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
On 11/13/2009 11:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
Thanks for the tip. But it still
Hi,
I have a Acer One D250 which is equipped with a BCM4312 for
which on the homepage the support is marked as in progress.
Whenever the kernel tries to insert b43.ko it freezes. If've moved up
to 2.6.32-rc7, but is always stays like this.
snip source=lspci -vnn
01:00.0 Network controller
On 11/13/2009 09:33 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
Hi,
I have a Acer One D250 which is equipped with a BCM4312 for
which on the homepage the support is marked as in progress.
Whenever the kernel tries to insert b43.ko it freezes. If've moved up
to 2.6.32-rc7, but is always stays like this.
snip
On 11/13/2009 05:12 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
On 11/13/2009 09:33 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
Hi,
I have a Acer One D250 which is equipped with a BCM4312 for
which on the homepage the support is marked as in progress.
Whenever the kernel tries to insert b43.ko it freezes. If've moved up
to
On Friday 13 November 2009 17:41:21 Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/13/2009 05:12 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
On 11/13/2009 09:33 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
Hi,
I have a Acer One D250 which is equipped with a BCM4312 for
which on the homepage the support is marked as in progress.
Whenever the kernel
Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/13/2009 05:12 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
On 11/13/2009 09:33 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
Hi,
I have a Acer One D250 which is equipped with a BCM4312 for
which on the homepage the support is marked as in progress.
Whenever the kernel tries to insert b43.ko it freezes. If've
On 11/13/2009 05:56 PM, William Bourque wrote:
Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/13/2009 05:12 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
On 11/13/2009 09:33 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
Hi,
I have a Acer One D250 which is equipped with a BCM4312 for
which on the homepage the support is marked as in progress.
Whenever the
On Friday 13 November 2009 18:46:22 Oncaphillis wrote:
Thanks for the tip. But it still hangs
So, any chance to tell us what hangs means? See my other mail.
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On 11/13/2009 11:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
Thanks for the tip. But it still hangs
We still need to know where it hangs. If you boot to console mode (type a 3 on
the option line in GRUB), does it boot? If it does not, what is the last line
shown on the console? If your distro shows a splash
On 11/13/2009 08:20 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
On 11/13/2009 11:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
Thanks for the tip. But it still hangs
We still need to know where it hangs. If you boot to console mode
(type a 3 on
the option line in GRUB), does it boot? If it does not, what is the
last
On Friday 13 November 2009 21:36:31 Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/13/2009 08:20 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
On 11/13/2009 11:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
Thanks for the tip. But it still hangs
We still need to know where it hangs. If you boot to console mode
(type a 3 on
the option
On 11/13/2009 09:43 PM, Michael Buesch wrote:
On Friday 13 November 2009 21:36:31 Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/13/2009 08:20 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
On 11/13/2009 11:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
Thanks for the tip. But it still hangs
We still need to know where it hangs. If
On 11/13/2009 03:02 PM, Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/13/2009 09:43 PM, Michael Buesch wrote:
On Friday 13 November 2009 21:36:31 Oncaphillis wrote:
On 11/13/2009 08:20 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
On 11/13/2009 11:46 AM, Oncaphillis wrote:
Thanks for the tip. But it still hangs
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