maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - [ANNOUNCE] Wlan Driver Selector Applet - Switch easily between stock and bleeding edge drivers and shut down WLAN complitely [0.2.2 in extras]

	laasonen	2011-06-02 , 01:15
	Posts: 565 \| Thanked: 618 times \| Joined on Jun 2010 @ Finland	#1

Just coded a little status area applet which lets you switch between stock and bleeding edge drivers

It also has a possibility to shut down WLAN complitely.

You can find it under name status-area-wlan-driver-selector-applet on extras-testing. Please vote, if you think its stable.

All ideas and feedback are welcome

How?

Install kernel-power (>=v46-wl1)
Download the bleeding edge drivers with the applets wizard, if you don't have them allready
First time when you bleeding edge drivers, it will ask for the folder where you saved the drivers, if you didn't use the applet's wizard

Applet is not showing up? You could try to run this as root:

Code:

apt-get install python python-hildondesktop
reboot
apt-get install --reinstall status-area-wlan-driver-selector-applet

My drivers are not located in MyDocs or memory card. How to select?

Code:

gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/wlan_driver_selector/driver_folder /path/to/drivers/

Customized osso-wlan (optional)

This fixes a bug where WLAN gets stuck, when you are connected to an
access point and go out-of-range.

WARNING: Installing this will break seamless upgrades to new PR versions.
Most likely you will have to reinstall normal osso-wlan version
before you can do OTA upgrades.

You can also skip this step, but keep in mind that the above mentioned bug
can occur. If this bug is triggered you have 3 options:
manually unset ssid, unload and reload driver or reboot your phone.

Run this as root:

Code:

apt-get install wget #If you don't have wget already
wget http://files.laasonen.net/osso-wlan_3.0.20+0m5-1_armel.deb
dpkg -i osso-wlan_3.0.20+0m5-1_armel.deb

Or click this on MicroB and then click "Open with App. manager".
Or download this with your PC, move it to your N900 and then open it with the file browser.

Last edited by laasonen; 2011-08-18 at 13:38.

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