[maemo-developers] WLAN connectivity using only wireless-tools

[From: Kalle Valo]

"ext Kalle Vahlman" <kalle.vahlman at gmail.com> writes:

>> But it might that you were just lucky this time. If only two channels
>> are scanned, most of the time the driver won't be able to associate
>> because it can't find the AP. How many channels did it scan?
>
> On boot, it says two channels was scanned. Association hasn't failed
> on me yet, so perhaps I'm a very lucky guy :P

On what channel is your AP?

> Running iwlist scanning by hand reports 13 channels afterwards though.

That sounds normal.

> And shows one result with zeroed values (I think I've seen
> discussion on this bug though).

What values were zero?

> On a related matter, I tried to build the modules from garage sources
> and although it seemingly worked, replacing the modules on board left
> me with non-functional wlan. Being a smart guy (not just lucky), I had
> a way to go back to the original drivers of course.

The umac.ko is an empty module, don't use that. Only use cx3110x.ko.

> I didn't yet dig deeper and gather logs (IIRC the firmware or driver
> was resetting the chip after any commands to the interface), since I
> wanted to know first if they are known to be compatible with the
> current ITOS2007 release (initfs) or was it just me?

Sources for ITOS2007 releases are available from repository.maemo.org.
See my post here:

https://garage.maemo.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1236


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Kalle Valo