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Re: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle

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Originally Posted by Estel (Post 1061971)

Just have in mind that it use *much* more battery than stock ones - when connected to some AP and idle (battery usage on wifi load or disconnected is same).

Just for the record, I never noticed increased battery consumption when connected. Just leaving monitor mode on eats battery more, but I never noticed increased battery consumption during normal wifi operation.

Re: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle

Interesting. It's only perceived value, or did You measured current_now? Everytime I tried it - both with stock pr1.3, and with all latest kp's, I always got ~100 mA higher current, when connected to WLAN via bleeding edge drivers.

Re: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle

...how do i compile the kernel objects for kp48 in the shortest possible /least intrusive way? Scratchbox of course is only available for Linux... all i currently have is a corporate Win7 x64 laptop. Precompiled wl1251 driver is not playing nice with kp48 anymore...

Re: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle

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Originally Posted by don_falcone (Post 1064230)

You can still obtain ubuntu as either a dualboot, wubi, live setup or even virtualised setup. Using windows is purely not the solution as windows lacks any necessary required tools to compile linux binaries let alone in a cross compile environment.

There is however another solution, which is turning your N900 into a device capable of compiling stuff without the need to use any other computer/device to compile/cross-compile anything for your N900. Though it highly depends on your linux skills in order to turn your N900 into the said development environment.

Re: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle

Thanks, i have downloaded the ready-made Ubuntu Maemo 5 SDK image for VMWare. I do not want to compile directly on the N900, particularly for messing up environment settings and for rootfs space reasons.

Now, i have kp48 headers + sources + wl1251 sources in sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL /usr/src/ and am kinda lost.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=67995
http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...Kernel_Modules
http://psfreedom.com/wiki/Nokia_N900...9_maemo_kernel

are not helping much right now. For example, in wl1251-maemo/sources/ I see 4 source tarballs:

Code:

[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: /usr/src/wl1251-maemo/source] > ls

compat-wireless-2.6.tar.gz               osso-wlan-3.0.20+0m5.tar.gz

compat.tar.gz                            wireless-testing.tar.bz2

kernel-power_2.6.28-maemo46-wl1.tar.bz2

Which one should i untar, 'compat-wireless-2.6.tar.gz'? Btw, pali is a funny guy:

Code:

[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: /usr/src/kernel-power-source] > less Makefile

shows:

Code:

VERSION = 2

PATCHLEVEL = 6

SUBLEVEL = 28

EXTRAVERSION = .10

NAME = Erotic Pickled Herring

Also, do i have to switch the toolchain from madde to gcc?

Code:

export PATH := /usr/bin:$(HOME)/.madde/0.7.48/toolchains/arm-2007q3-51sb6-gdb71-

arm-none-linux-gnueabi_linux_x86_64/bin:$(PATH)

My LInux compile experiences were never greater than unpacking source tarballs, and using make / qmake with adapted defines/includes. And all that on x64 desktop machines...

Re: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle

FWIW, that's not pali being funny, that is a legitimate Linux kernel version name.

Re: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle

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Originally Posted by hawaii (Post 1066979)

FWIW, that's not pali being funny, that is a legitimate Linux kernel version name.

And _I_ thought Canonical were the guys with "funny" version names...

Re: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle

Sorry for the stupid question but how to install wl1251-monitor-mode-2.This is the DIFF File and I do not know what command to use

Re: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle

DIFF file contain, well... Differences. You path certain sources with it, and it attach code changes to make "old" source "upgraded" (patched) source. You know, source codes, compiling, and this kind of stuff, that almost no one want to start doing if she/he haven't tried before, but after, life is becoming much better ;)

Re: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle

Thanks for the reply but this is exactly the problem I do not know how to do this process.There is a package(dpkg-dev),but do not know if I would benefit from something.To make this change, the files must have linux on my pc.

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no one want to start doing if she/he haven't tried before, but after, life is becoming much better

For this right does not dispute,