On Thursday, 11 September 2014 09:07:37 UTC-4, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 05:50:23AM -0700, Jason wrote: 
> > Right. So your response is to make the message even more aggressive and 
> > obnoxious. You just don't get it do you. 
>

Aiya!  Let's all take it down a notch.

Luc is a little gruff sometimes (okay, a lot of times), but he usually has 
a valid point.  The issue is you're asking us to help you make some random 
wifi device work without giving us any more details about what this random 
device is or even something that might help us figure that out (like the 
fex file or even photos of the chips on the board).  Usually what you need 
to do to get a wifi device to work is identify what it is and then load the 
appropriate module in the kernel.  Occasionally the manufacturer has 
screwed up the fex file (the compiled version being script.bin), but it's 
best to start with just making sure the proper driver/kernel module is 
loaded.

I also think the wiki points out that the fex file is gotten by using the 
sunxi-tools to "decompile" the script.bin file and then is stored in the 
github repo.  You can submit a pull request to the boards repo, but it may 
not be accepted until it's clear that this board is going to work with 
everything else (which is demonstrated by completing a page in the wiki). 
 The wiki page example also has a link to the wiki's upload page to upload 
photos of the device and board.

As with any open source community, there's a give and take.  There's often 
too many people who just want to take what they need and then go away and 
that often annoys the people who tend to give a lot more than they take. 
 Luc is a person who gives way more than he takes in this community.  Since 
you're new, and you're simply asking along the lines of "make my device 
work", it'd be natural to assume that you're in the "just take" column 
until proven otherwise.  Going through the New Device Howto and sharing 
everything you can about your device shows that you're in the "give" column.

-Tim

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