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pdaXrom Development / I Will Pay Anyone $150 Us Just Compile Aspj Rt73 Module For Zaurus

« on: October 17, 2008, 04:05:23 pm »

OK, with all of your fine help, I just compiled it myself now ! I DONT believe I did it !

well, here it is:

  [ Invalid Attachment ]

delete .zip and replace with .o

This is not a ZIP file it is a .o file . I had to change the suffix as OESF don't allow the modules to upload.

If someone can test this with any rt73 WiFi Card, but especially D-Link DWL G122 C1 I would appreciate it as I am using
Angstrom as a test for something else at the moment.

Also, the Sensitivity patch above, was applied before compilation. so, this is a different module to the first working
module listed in this thread which was eviLjazz's rt73-k2wrlz-2.0.1  . But, it is the same source code used.

Thanks everyone !

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pdaXrom Development / I Will Pay Anyone $150 Us Just Compile Aspj Rt73 Module For Zaurus

« on: October 17, 2008, 08:13:35 am »

also, someone made a sensitivity patch for 2.0.x. I,m now hosting it:

http://allelectrix.bravehost.com/rt73-k2wr...nsitivity.patch

you probably know the rest evilJazz, but for those that don't the rest is:

$ cd rt73-k2wrlz-2.0.0   (your driver source directory)
$ patch -p0 < /path/to/rt73-k2wrlz-2.0.x-rx_sensitivity.patch
$ make

Thanks again  

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pdaXrom Development / I Will Pay Anyone $150 Us Just Compile Aspj Rt73 Module For Zaurus

« on: October 16, 2008, 07:19:23 pm »

Attached is the latest version 3.0.1 of the rt73 driver module from http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~p_larbig/wlan/.
Enjoy.

Well, that was a good try, but were back to the Segmentation Fault again.  

Perhaps 3.0.0 and 3.0.1 are biased more towards the 2.6 kernel architecture ?

Anyway, its was a nice try evilJazz ;-)

I notice that the module has been reduced in size from a working 2.0.1 equaling 458,752 Bytes
down to the 3.0.1 version equaling 327,680 Bytes..

thats over 130,000 Bytes missing from the working version.

It also looks very much like the shape and size of the version Capn_Fish produced earlier with
the same fault showing.

perhaps we could just add the sensitivity patch to the working 2.0.1 source code and try that ?

All in all, I'll leave it for you to decide the next move  

Thanks a million

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pdaXrom Development / I Will Pay Anyone $150 Us Just Compile Aspj Rt73 Module For Zaurus

« on: October 16, 2008, 06:47:06 pm »

Attached is the latest version 3.0.1 of the rt73 driver module from http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~p_larbig/wlan/.
Enjoy.

Man, you are on fire !

I can't keep up with you !

I was going to put this in before you posted this version of rt73.o .

We got Rx Sensitivity issues with the other module.

thus we need to do:

add this patch to the final 3.0.1 code. Before adding it, I think you should check the source code in 3.0.1
to see if its been added already. the patch concerns the file :

rtmp_init.c

basically, as far as I can see this statement at line 2038 needs to go from:

pAd->BbpTuning.bEnable                            = TRUE;

to this:

pAd->BbpTuning.bEnable                            = FALSE;

and these two commands need to be at their respective line positions in the same file:

pAd->BbpTuning.R17LowerBoundG 0x00           (line 2009)
pAd->BbpTuning.R17UpperBoundG 0x00           (line 2010)

root :-)  make

and lets load this puppy up and see what gives ;-)

thanks so much for everything evilJazz, I await this 3rd module now.

In the meantime, I will load up the 2nd module you made of the 3.0.1 code and see if that has resolved this sensitivity issue already.

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pdaXrom Development / I Will Pay Anyone $150 Us Just Compile Aspj Rt73 Module For Zaurus

« on: October 16, 2008, 11:49:01 am »

I've had an internet connection from a USB-Ethernet card (not Wi-Fi, though). I assume it would be a similar sort of process to get yours running:

Code: [Select]

ifconfig INTERFACE up
iwconfig INTERFACE mode managed essid YOURSSID key YOURKEY
dhclient INTERFACE

Allelectrix replies using the SL-C1000...

Ah yes, I seem to remember issuing several iwconfig commands in BT3 then finally issuing:

dhcpcd -h zaurus -G 192.168.1.254 rausb0

this command fetches the clients new IP Addr from the AP where the IP address = the address of the AP on the network.

Thanks for the reminder Capn_Fish :-)

getting back to the rt73 module, it seems to lack a lot of sensitivity on all AP's .

I find that using my D-Link DWL G122 C1 while not at home is very difficult to get a connection, at the same time my DCF-650W sees networks with ease, and easily picks them up.

I will see if we can get an update to rt73-k2wrlz . The source code that I gave evilJazz was not the most update. I only selected it because I thought it was the last version of this code available for kernel 2.4 .

I guess were not out of the woods yet !

It appears there is a fresher version:

http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~p_larbig...z-3.0.0.tar.bz2

lets all have a go at compiling this for our 2.4.20 kernel this time ! I wonder if I can follow your advice evilJazz on setting up an xcompiler ?

now were going to find out !

I take it you can step in again if we don't succeed ?

thanks for eveything !

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pdaXrom Development / I Will Pay Anyone $150 Us Just Compile Aspj Rt73 Module For Zaurus

« on: October 16, 2008, 07:44:08 am »

Thanks evilJazz for that information, I'll have a go at zd1211b.o myself now with this and let you all know how it goes.

Not that it matters evilJazz, but what was the Linux x86 OS you used ? I guess most x86 Linux Boxes will do ?

A special thanks also to :

Frederic Bergero
Iaan
sdjf

for their contributions to this project.

I was so over the moon the other day I nearly forgot to mention you all too.

In fact, if there is anyone else that helped here I left out, well, thank you too !

You people rock my world !  

Now for something a little different.. just continuing on with the rt73 theme, I think it would be really nice if we could get
the rt73 Card to give us an Internet connection in pdaXii13 from using a BASH Shell and a few BASH commands,

So, how do we do this ? has anyone tried it before ? - that is get a Wifi Card other than a CF to give them an Internet connection
in PdaXii13 or PdaXrom ?

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pdaXrom Development / I Will Pay Anyone $150 Us Just Compile Aspj Rt73 Module For Zaurus

« on: October 15, 2008, 08:01:15 pm »

The Beautiful Sight

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pdaXrom Development / I Will Pay Anyone $150 Us Just Compile Aspj Rt73 Module For Zaurus

« on: October 15, 2008, 07:18:36 pm »

I compiled the module against my kernel branch (see sig). No changes required in the USB struct. Although I had to remove one union from a struct since the compiler was complaining.
Anyway, the compiled module + modified sourcecode is attached. Let me know if that works. If it does I'll try to integrate the module into my branch.

eviLjazz,

Guess what ?

YOU DID IT !! YOU DID IT !! YOU DID IT !! YOU DID IT !! YOU DID IT !! YOU DID IT !! YOU DID IT !! YOU DID IT !! YOU DID IT !! YOU DID IT !! YOU DID IT !!

You and Capn_Fish have made not only my day, but I think my whole year too!!                      

WOW! your both amazing !    

But, you eviLjazz, your our inspiration ! your my inspiration !  

I am absolutely blown away by it all !  WOW! WOW! WOW!

I really didn't think that there was anyone out there that was going to fulfill my begging pleas ! but you have fulfilled all my Z
dreams and more !

I have waited SO very long for this moment... Hey ! this is beginning to sound like a love rant !! LOL!  
But thats how happy you have made me feel today !   I am completely ecstatic !

when I saw the interface come up:

RT73 WLAN

Seriously, my heart was beating so hard, it nearly jumped out of my chest ! LOL!  
I really don't think I have ever been so excited in all my life !

All Card functions are now fully enabled thanks to your kindness, and your awesome minds.

So, what now ?

Now that I am a little calmer ... After the excitement has abated somewhat..

I have a pot of 200 Pounds UK available for this special occasion, please don't tell me your not going to accept as I
I WILL NOT accept that !

I would like to share this between yourself and Capn_Fish, could you both chat and agree to how much you would
both like  then let me know ? note that if one of you subsists from receiving the split, the full amount of 200 UK Pounds
will go to the other one of you! so, its up to you both to decide who gets what. I just want this to be as fare as possible.

Yes, I really want to do this, as I feel like rolling out the Champagne today, and this is the only way I can show
you both how elated I feel, so, please accept my gift to you both

I require 2 paypal accounts, thats 2 EMail addresses to deposit the payments.

All that remains for me to do now is to thank the following persons for their kind assistance in arriving at this point:

For giving directions on encouraging me to try to do this myself:

Krasimir Kazakov
David Louigi

And my special thanks to :

Capn_Fish

Who started everybody on this game and gave it a good go, your an inspiration to us Capn_Fish

And finally, to the man of the moment:

eviLjazz

you get the gold cup and the big big deep thank you from the bottom of my heart !

FINALLY
---------

eviLjazz, can you please tell us all the following:

1) What is your compiler ? and can you post it here for us all to download ? are there any special library's or add on's that have to be added to the
    compiler to get this to work ? if so, can you allow us to download them too ?

2) Can you package up the kernel source code you used to compile the rt73-k2wrlz against, then allow us to download it ?

I ask the questions because I and I am sure, we, would all like the ability to help someone else with a similar enquiry in the future. Certainly,I
would love the opportunity myself if someone requested my services in this manner as I have of you both.

I have eviLjazz's modified rt73-k2wrlz-2.0.1 source code if anyone wishes to compare it to the original, if thats OK with you eviLjazz
to release this modification for others to see ?

And once again, peace, love and most importantly, good health be with all of you who have helped me in any way with this, Bye for now
and have a lot of fun with your beautiful Zaurus Computers !  

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pdaXrom Development / I Will Pay Anyone $150 Us Just Compile Aspj Rt73 Module For Zaurus

« on: October 15, 2008, 02:49:21 pm »

Come on everybody ! Please help Capn_Fish solve this problem !!

Capn_Fish, I want you to know that you have my respect and brotherly love for undertaking this for me, thank you so very much again !

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pdaXrom Development / I Will Pay Anyone $150 Us Just Compile Aspj Rt73 Module For Zaurus

« on: October 15, 2008, 07:15:35 am »

Code: [Select]

struct usb_device *dev = pAd->pUsb_Dev;
...
//struct device *udevice = &dev->dev;
struct device *udevice = dev;
The third, commented out one is the original. The compiler claims that there's no such member "dev" in "&dev," so I hacked it together so it compiled

The code is trying to assign udevice as a pointer to the dev member of dev struct and the compiler is complaining there is no member dev in dev struct so you need to find the definition of dev struct and find why there is no dev member.

The change you made assigned udevice as a pointer to whole dev struct which will overflow as soon as the code tries to use that pointer, if you find and post the definition of dev struct may be we can give you a hand (or maybe no )

As a stupid example the code is pointing to a book on a shelf and the compiler can not find that book while your edition in code pointed to the bookshelf itself not a single book and once compiled it brokes its back trying to pick the bookshelf .

Oh.  

Talk about doing a Rubiks Cube ! This riddle makes Rubiks Cube look like play dough. Some people in here are going to get seriously rewarded for
solving it ! thats my personal promise !

Keep it coming. we want to know how to resolve this. Gracious thanks to everyone that's helped so far.

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pdaXrom Development / I Will Pay Anyone $150 Us Just Compile Aspj Rt73 Module For Zaurus

« on: October 14, 2008, 07:05:38 pm »

Try this (It's likely broken in some way or another)

Remove the .txt and add .o

Darn!... you were right, there are faults, but a REALLY nice try !  
We're getting so warm with this, I can now feel the heat on my Face !  

I'm getting the Segmentation Fault now when I try to bring the Interface up.

We nearly had it !  

this is what I have tested it with:

SL-C1000 Computer
pdaXii13
D-Link DWL G122 C1

USB 2.0 Hub = dont work at all
USB 1.0 Hub = Segmentation Fault
Direct connection to Computer = Segmentation Fault

I presume that if the module will run the D-Link DWL G122 C1 it will run all the other rt73 Cards ?

Here's the system output:

rt73_k2wrlz_2.0.1.tar.bz2

Isn't it normally rausb0 ?

would it be possible to see if you could compile this code to ARM rt73.o ?:

 [ Invalid Attachment ]

1 Million Thank You's from me for trying this, your the Man!

I REALLY look forward to your next post here !  

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New Packages Announcement

« on: October 14, 2008, 05:26:50 pm »

I'm glad you are getting somewhere with your search for this module. I hope you don't mind too much but I'm just off to delete the WIKI page you made asking for help with this problem.   The WIKI really isn't the appropriate place for that sort of thing.

Thanks, yes, sorry about that, beginners ignorance. I am still looking for the illusive rt73.o I understand Capn Fish is my Hero as he has posted it,
where has he put it ?, I can't find it yet !  

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pdaXrom Development / I Will Pay Anyone $150 Us Just Compile Aspj Rt73 Module For Zaurus

« on: October 13, 2008, 10:07:48 am »

Out of curiousity, what does "works for a few times and then just dies" mean?

May be a stupid question, from someone who knows nearly zilch about hostap and wireless, but it sounds suspiciously to me like there may just be some wrong settings somewhere in /etc/.  I found Opera was resetting my config and ppp file settings to the wrong baud rate if I let it.

May be totally unrelated, you seem sure it's the driver you need, but what the heck.  I just got my post up about that a few days ago (again, sl6000, Sharp ROM):

http://sdjf.esmartdesign.com/blog/settings.html

Maybe the new card would do the same thing, because some application is messing up your settings?

Its a good thought sdjf, but I have confirmed that it is a Hardware problem with these 2 Cards.

The Cards main IC has no heatsink on it, and this is whats making these cards perform in the way I mentioned.
I put my finger on the top of the main IC on the card while connected to the USB system, as soon as I issued the
wireless control commands:

ifconfig rausb0 up
iwconfig rausb0 mode monitor channel 2

the main IC on the card heats up to such a degree that I can't keep my finger on the top of the IC anymore.

So, I'm hoping that by adding some refrigeration to the IC that the card continues to run indefinitely without
burning itself out.

Thats a real interesting problem you had there with Opera and your CF Modem !  nice that you sorted
it out !

If you know anyone that has a kernel 2.4.20 toolchain up and running and can make .o kernel modules
please let me know everyone.

In the meantime, please keep this thread running, I want to hear from all of you, thanks to all
so far that have tried to assist mw with this problem ;-)

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / New Packages Announcement

« on: October 13, 2008, 09:37:10 am »

After a lot of mucking around with the older pdaxrom-builder stuff I finally got a working kernel toolchain going, and compiled a couple of modules for beta3/pdaXii13:

/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/fs/udf.o - for reading UDF format discs from a usb-connected dvd drive - just don't expect to be playing DVD video though.

/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/usb/dm9601.o - If your dongle is recognised by your current driver there's no need to change to this one. But a few USB device id's are missing from Meanie's pdaXii13 build of this driver, including the one from my dongle. Originally I got around it by hex-editing the original driver and replacing another ID with mine, but the result wasn't exactly releasable  If you got a "USB device X (vend/prod 0xXXXX/0xXXXX) is not claimed by any active driver" error in dmesg with the old driver and the device ID is one of 0x0a46:0x6688, 0x0a46:0x0268, or 0x0a46:0x0668 then this build should sort you out.

Make sure to do a "depmod -a" after installing either of these.

Hi there Pelrun,

I have been waiting a long time to hear about someone who can generate .o modules for pdaxii13.

I will pay you handsomely if you can compile:

rt73-k2wrlz-2.0.1.tar.gz

into

rt73.o

for kernel 2.4.20

do you think you could do that for me ? please name your price and I am happy to pay whatever you want.

the source code for the module is at:

rt73 Source Code

with gracious thanks and appreciation. Allelectrix

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pdaXrom Development / I Will Pay Anyone $150 Us Just Compile Aspj Rt73 Module For Zaurus

« on: October 11, 2008, 03:50:46 pm »

I've only got Hostap for 802.11b CF Cards and the kernel Module:

rt2570.o

this is for 2 Cards:

a) D-Link DWL-G122 B1
 Linksys WUSB54G

Which both turn out to be a load of crap. They run for a few times, then mysteriously just die, and
become about as much use as a worn out shoe. While I am investigating this great phenomena, the real
powerhouse card:

D-Link DWL-G122 C1

is just waiting for me to slap it into its USB slot and let it do its great stuff, alas, my Computer wont know
what to do with it, as it does not (as yet) have the kernel module:

rt73.o

Alas, your thought is good, but for the application I want, there is only one choice available:

Any rt73 chipset based USB wifi card

so, role up, role up, all you Unixheads, payment to whatever level I pledge to the first person to compile
for me:

rt73.o in ARM Machine Code

your payment awaits.

in the meantime, keep your ideas rolling in, I want to hear all.