From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755750AbZCQJAn (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:00:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752049AbZCQJAe (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:00:34 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:49291 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751911AbZCQJAd (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:00:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:03:23 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Pekka Enberg Cc: luoyi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH Subject: Re: w35und driver unusable Message-ID: <20090317090322.GA24133@elf.ucw.cz> References: <84144f020903162307x3d164432m4132b0dd1487bae@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <84144f020903162307x3d164432m4132b0dd1487bae@mail.gmail.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=664458 > > > > I know that the my box's wifi is WinBound's products. > > > > I'm currently running kernel 2.6.28.7 now and have modprobed w35und. > > and I also have a linksys usb wireless card on the USB port. > > > > Now, the situation is Linksys's card can just work well. and the > > Winbound card can't . > > > > wlan1 is the WinBound card: > > > > root@t700:~# dmesg |grep wlan1 > > udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlan1 > > ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready > > > > root@t700:~# iwlist wlan1 scan > > wlan1 No scan results > > > > root@t700:~# iwlist wlan0 scan > > wlan0 Scan completed : > > Cell 01 - Address: 00:1B:FC:7E:57:51 > > ESSID:"default" > > Mode:Master > > Channel:5 > > Frequency:2.432 GHz (Channel 5) > > Quality=56/100 Signal level:-22 dBm > > Encryption key:off > > IE: Unknown: 000764656661756C74 > > IE: Unknown: 010882848B968C929824 > > IE: Unknown: 030105 > > IE: Unknown: 0406000200000000 > > IE: Unknown: 2A0100 > > IE: Unknown: 3204B048606C > > Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s > > 9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s > > 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s > > Extra:tsf=00000035772ec17e > > Extra: Last beacon: 52ms ago > > > > does this mean that the winbound drivers in the kernel tree is not > > ready for use ? or do we have any idea for make it work ? > The driver is known to be broken in 2.6.28. You might want to try out > 2.6.29-rc8 which carries fixes for the driver. Note that the driver is > in the staging directory which means it is not of production quality. Winbond driver only supports channel 1, for now. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html