Andrew Webster wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
> <dbarysh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Andrew Webster wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have backported the drivers from the latest git devel to 2.6.24,
>>
>> Hmmm. Pretty much outdated. Very outdated in my opinion (esp. for
>> development).
> 
> I know, but it's what I'm stuck with until the board support is accepted
> into main line.

m5208evb? From the quick glance it is supported in 2.6.31 (at least there is
a defconfig for it). If you need to port some other driver, drop me a private
mail, maybe I can help.

>>> however I am having some trouble getting the wpan* devices to be added
>>> properly.
>>>
>>> I do see the wpan-phy* ieee802154 device being added (so
>>> wpan_phy_register is being called) when the driver is loaded, or when
>>> I write to adddev, and I do see the devices ieee802154:wpan-phy* under
>>> /sys/bus/platform/devices/ieee802154fakelb, however none of the rtnl
>>> code ever runs and so alloc_netdev is never called for "wpan*" and so
>>> I can't see it listed by ifconfig or iz.
>>
>> It isn't supported to be called automatically. Please install current
>> iproute2, current lowpan-tools (which provide iproute plugin).
>>
>> Then please use
>> # iz listphy
>>
>> to get phy instance name (e.g. wpan-phy0) Then
>> # ip link add address de:ad:be:af:ca:fe:ba:be type wpan phy wpan-phy0
>>
>> to instantiate wpan networking device.
> 
> Thanks, that works (mostly).  I still have a few porting issues to
> resolve though.


:)


-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry



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