Make firmware caching on startup optional, and make it default.
When the option is not selected and PM_SLEEP is configured, then
cache firmware in the suspend pm_notifier. This configuration saves
about 64k RAM in normal use, but can lead to a situation where the
driver is configured to use a different firmware.
Signed-off by: David Kilroy <kilroyd@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
After considerable testing, the initial fears that the driver might damage
some flavors of RTL8187B hardware seem to be groundless. Accordingly, the
logged warning is removed. In addition, Kconfig is changed to remove the
dependence on EXPERIMENTAL.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger>
Acked-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Firmware download is enabled for Agere in orinoco_cs. Symbol firmware
download has been moved out of spectrum_cs into orinoco_cs. Firmware
download is not enabled for Intersil.
Symbol based firmware is restricted to only download on spectrum_cs
based cards.
The firmware names are hardcoded for each firmware type.
Signed-off-by: David Kilroy <kilroyd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This reverts commit 94d9842403.
Alan says it's not appropriate to remove this driver,
Adrian Bunk also agrees with this revert.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The latest trace about usage of this driver I found was an (unanswered)
request for help by a user trying to get it working reliably five years
ago with kernel 2.4 .
And even if it was still working the use cases of this driver (requiring
both the hardware and someone providing this kind of wireless network)
have become practically nonexisting.
This patch therefore removes the strip driver.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mac80211_hwsim is a Linux kernel module that can be used to simulate
arbitrary number of IEEE 802.11 radios for mac80211 on a single
device. It can be used to test most of the mac80211 functionality and
user space tools (e.g., hostapd and wpa_supplicant) in a way that
matches very closely with the normal case of using real WLAN
hardware. From the mac80211 view point, mac80211_hwsim is yet another
hardware driver, i.e., no changes to mac80211 are needed to use this
testing tool.
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Runtime-wise we only need escape_ssid from the deprecated IEEE80211
subsystem. However, it's easy to provide our own copy.
Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Most wireless drivers load their firmware at interface open time, which
generally occurs after the filesystem is available. However, the ipw drivers
load their firmware at probe time because firmware is required to read the
device MAC address. When built-in, probe happens before the filesystem is
available, hence device init will only complete successfully if the user
has made special arrangements (including firmware plus a loader in the
initramfs).
Note all this in the kconfig help text for both drivers.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Author: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Tested on 5211, 5213+5112, 5213A+2112A and it wors fine.
Also i figured out a way to process rate vallue found
on status descriptors, it's still buggy but we are getting
closer (i think it improved stability a little).
Changes to hw.c, initvals.c, phy.c
Changes-licensed-under: ISC
Changes to ath5k.h, base.c, base.h
Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@winlab.rutgers.edu>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch creates new cfg80211 wiphy API for channel and bitrate
registration and converts mac80211 and drivers to the new API. The
old mac80211 API is completely ripped out. All drivers (except ath5k)
are updated to the new API, in many cases I expect that optimisations
can be done.
Along with the regulatory code I've also ripped out the
IEEE80211_HW_DEFAULT_REG_DOMAIN_CONFIGURED flag, I believe it to be
unnecessary if the hardware simply gives us whatever channels it wants
to support and we then enable/disable them as required, which is pretty
much required for travelling.
Additionally, the patch adds proper "basic" rate handling for STA
mode interface, AP mode interface will have to have new API added
to allow userspace to set the basic rate set, currently it'll be
empty... However, the basic rate handling will need to be moved to
the BSS conf stuff.
I do expect there to be bugs in this, especially wrt. transmit
power handling where I'm basically clueless about how it should work.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
New driver for wireless RNDIS devices. So far only known chip that uses
wireless RNDIS is Broadcom 4320. Driver detects all RNDIS devices that
have RNDIS wireless physical medium. At least following devices are
detected:
Buffalo WLI-U2-KG125S
U.S. Robotics USR5421
Belkin F5D7051
Linksys WUSB54GSv2
Linksys WUSB54GSC
Asus WL169gE
Eminent EM4045
BT Voyager 1055
Linksys WUSB54GSv1
U.S. Robotics USR5420
BUFFALO WLI-USB-G54
Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds a mac80211 based wireless driver for the rtl8180 and
rtl8185 PCI wireless cards. Also included are some rtl8187 changes
required due to the relationship between that driver and this one.
Michael Wu is primarily responsible for the initial driver and rtl8185
support. Andreas Merello provided the additional rtl8180 support.
Thanks to Jukka Ruohonen for the donating a rtl8185 card! It was very
helpful for the rtl8225z2 code.
The Signed-off-by information below is collected from the individual
patches submitted to wireless-2.6 before merging this driver upstream.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Merello <andreamrl@tiscali.it>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Erik Ekman
David Kilroy
Larry Finger
John W. Linville
David Kilroy
Luis Carlos Cobo
Luis R. Rodriguez
Andrea Merello
David S. Miller
Hin-Tak Leung
Adrian Bunk
Jouni Malinen
Christian Lamparter
Holger Schurig
Daniel Drake
Luis R. Rodriguez
Johannes Berg
Jussi Kivilinna
Michael Wu