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On 06/10/14 17:34, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen@×××××××××.de> [14-10-06 17:56]: |
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>> On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 07:44:03PM +0200, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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>>> walt <w41ter@×××××.com> [14-10-05 19:36]: |
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>>>> On 10/05/2014 07:54 AM, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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>>>>> walt <w41ter@×××××.com> [14-10-05 16:16]: |
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>>>>>>> On 10/05/2014 06:52 AM, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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>>>>>>>>> Hi, |
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>>>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>>>> while trying to get a mt7601sta (UWN200 WiFi dongle) driver running |
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>>>>>>>>> and working I came accross this in the dmesg output: |
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>>>>>>>>> |
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>>>>>>>>> [ 9.931938] usb 2-1: device v148f p7601 is not supported |
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>>>>>>> This looks to me like it's the real error, not the one below. |
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>>>>> What I dont understand is: If I provide the kernel driver...why does |
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>>>>> the kernel "decides" not to support the hardware the driver itsself |
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>>>>> supports...? |
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>>>> Where did you get the driver? Are you sure it's really the right one? |
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>>> One of the main maintainer for the Beaglebone black kernel sources |
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>>> (Robert C. Nelson) point me to his git repository of this driver. |
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>>> |
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>>> I am now back to kernel 3.8.13, where this stuff runs... |
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>>> (The kernel I tried it before was 3.14.19) |
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>>> But this kernel version get no much updates thess days and is |
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>>> somehow old... |
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>>> |
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>> So you tried to run a driver for 3.8.x on a 3.14.x kernel? |
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>> Such things often result in breakage as, while the kernels interface to |
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>> userspace is very stable, the internal interfaces aren't stable at all. Likely |
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>> there would be some other stuff necessary to get the driver to work properly. |
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>> Some googling around led me to [1] though, which seems to imply that there is |
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>> support on newer kernels (3.15.10 and newer), if you use the right patch... |
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>> So maybe you are sucessful with that... |
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>> WKR |
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>> Hinnerk |
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>> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg126291.html |
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> Moin Hinnerk, |
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> (hopefully have guessed this greet correctly...I am from that |
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> part of Germany ;) |
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> I have the source of the driver exclusivly compiled for 3.8.13 |
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> as for 3.14.something (cant remember). |
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> 3.14.x has some other problems (on that embedded platform) like |
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> not powering off when shutdown, random reboots and such. |
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> So decided to go back to 3.8.13. |
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> Yesterday I started updateing (eix-sync and emerge) that Gentoo |
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> and it ends up in an endless loop (bash update) of configureing |
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> (damn slow on that mini iron) and compiling - |
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just a small aside - you might like to read up on cross compiling and |
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save yourself a world of pain |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/beaglebone/install.xml |
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> as it looks - |
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> of a single file. |
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> After more than 10 hours I CTRL-C that, reupated and now I am |
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> ...updateing the bash again. |
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> Sigh. |
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> Currently "fun" is something else... |
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> Is the 3.15.10++ branch free of things like random reboot and |
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> not powering off? |
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> Best regards, |
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> mcc |
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