Hi Jordan Crouse,
Your message is wonderful helpful information to me :)
Thank you.
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Jordan Crouse wrote:
On 06/09/06 09:46 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At this moment I bring back old BIOS already and every thing go back.
(Marvell wireless can work under slackware)
this is not as simple as it sounds. Insyde uses a full AMD-supplied VSA.
The VSA does a lot of tricky magic. My guess is that the combo of
slackware+VSA is the issue, not Insyde per se. We still need to see what
is going on.
Yes. It does a lot of tricky magic to let old s/w like slackware to work
correctly.
My suspect at this moment is slackware compile with math emu and 496
support. So , some command on .config from fedora may not work correctly.
I did not give up but will try to find out the exact sustainable solution.
Slackware, like Fedora (and everything else) is just a combination of
packages. Of these packages, only the kernel happens to interact with the i
hardware and BIOS in any serious way. If you are not using the correct
kernel for this platform and situation, then bad things can and will happen.
Yes. and I beleive I used the right kernel already.
I did used exact config-2.6.17-1.2608.olpc1 , kernel, .img
And it can boot up slackware under new linux BIOS but wireless did not
show up. I guess because lib and bin of slackware cannot bring up some
devices correctly.
Slackware has no possible way of understanding the USB wireless or how to
configure it. Fedora Rawhide knows, but only because it is up to date, and
we have a crack Fedora staff that will do our bidding (insert evil laugh here).
Yes. and old BIOS do some magic trick to let slackware to see USB wireless
randomly :( because it was crashed easily and have to reprobe it again and
again.
The disadvantage of old BIOS is slow to boot and unstable.
If I have time I will develop linux BIOS to have more helpful feature.
Supat will need to make sure that he does the right things to see the
wireless:
1) Make sure the antennae are attached
2) Use a recent kernel - with libertas included
3) Use the recommended LinuxBIOS version
4) Mount usbfs on /proc/bus/usb and ensure that the marvell device
is listed in 'devices' (vendor=1286, product=2001).
5) Follow http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images and make sure that the
most recent firmware is installed in /lib/firmware/usb8388.bin
Thank you much FYI above.
I will try to trace it.
I think step #4 is messed up under slackware because some times
/proc/bus/usb show nothing (no usb wireless)
If all of these happen together and in the right order, things should work.
If any ofthe steps should fail, then please open a ticket to ensure
that we track any problems.
Yes, the right order is also important.
After all that, he is welcome to create slackware packages that will ensure
others don't have to work so much to see wireless. Its not always fun being
the early adopter, but it is rewarding.
Yes, it reward me to know a lot already. Actually, I stop compiling kernel
myself long time ago because people like you provide us a lot of an
alternative kernel that we simply can ftp it and plug it in.
Working always give us a lot of good experiance benefit to our world.
Thank you,
supat
Jordan
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Jordan Crouse
Senior Linux Engineer
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
<www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors>
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