It turns out most device vendors don't set the correct country code
in their devices' on-flash-EEPROM sections as they apparently rather
provide a complete per-target-market firmware with patched drivers
instead of just setting the country code.
This results in the driver to incorrectly assume the value stored in
the on-flash-EERPOM (usually US or China) being the regulatory domain
inside which the device is being used.
To work around this issue, OpenWrt introduced the ATH_USER_REGD config
variable to decide during build whether or not to allow the user to
override the regulatory domain setting. This option, however, is not
enabled by default and thus ends up being disabled for snapshots builds
and released binaries.
As we know for a long time that most devices got borked regulatory
domain values set in their EEPROMs we should allow our users to respect
their local law (instead of just assume US or China laws).
Note that also the current default has great potential of users not
ever setting their regulatory domain and thus using inapproriate and
potentially illegal frequencies and/or tx-power settings
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
airo requires ISA_DMA_API and
that symbol is only set on some ppc,malta,x86
x86 is probably only platform where that driver is used
fixes buildbot errors on ar71xx,lantiq ...:
airo.ko is missing
Signed-off-by: Dirk Neukirchen <dirkneukirchen@web.de>
SVN-Revision: 49073
The UML target does not have spi support.
This fixes a build problem found by the build bot.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
SVN-Revision: 49034
This adds option to build kernel module and firmware packages
for a Marvell 8686 SPI Wireless device
Signed-off-by: Joseph Honold <mozzwald@gmail.com>
SVN-Revision: 48750
OpenWrt is often used to develop or test new devices
Some users might want to test and help to improve
this new driver
upstream commit notice 26f1fad29ad973b0fb26a9ca3dcb2a73dde781aa
New driver: rtl8xxxu (mac80211)
This is an alternate driver for a number of Realtek WiFi USB devices,
including RTL8723AU, RTL8188CU, RTL8188RU, RTL8191CU, and RTL8192CU.
It was written from scratch utilizing the Linux mac80211 stack.
After spending months cleaning up the vendor provided rtl8723au
driver, which comes with it's own 802.11 stack included, I decided to
rewrite this driver from the bottom up.
Many thanks to Johannes Berg for 802.11 insights and help and Larry
Finger for help with the vendor driver.
The full git log for the development of this driver can be found here:
git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jes/linux.git
branch rtl8723au-mac80211
This driver is still under development, but has proven to be very
stable for me. It currently supports station mode only. It has support
for OFDM and CCK rates. It does lack certain features found in the
staging driver, such as power management, AMPDU, and 40MHz channel
support. In addition it does not support AD-HOC, AP, and monitor mode
support at this point.
The driver is known to work with the following devices:
Lenovo Yoga (rtl8723au)
TP-Link TL-WN823N (rtl8192cu)
Etekcity 6R (rtl8188cu)
Daffodil LAN03 (rtl8188cu)
Alfa AWUS036NHR (rtl8188ru)
Compile tested only
Signed-off-by: Dirk Neukirchen <dirkneukirchen@web.de>
SVN-Revision: 48104
We don't use Kernel drivers but ucode -16 is
usable on Kernel 4.3+ - with backports and mac80211
this should work on older Kernel versions too.
Intel does not provide a changelog.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Neukirchen <dirkneukirchen@web.de>
SVN-Revision: 48103
Update dependencies for linux 4.4 and mark as broken where source code
needs updating.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jogo@openwrt.org>
SVN-Revision: 47700
compat-wireless/backports now contains a bcm47xx_nvram.h file to
backport some of the functions in it which are used by the bcmfmac
driver. This file just checks for the kernel versions and provide an
empty implementations on older kernel versions. This is OK on most
systems, but on bcm47xx / bcm53xx systems we want to call the real
functions here. This commit removes the file from backports in our
build process like we do it with the bcma and ssb header files. Instead
we add a recent version into our kernel so all code uses only one
header file. On bcm47xx / bcm53xx the real implementations of this code
will be used.
Reported-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
SVN-Revision: 47467
The driver only supports wl18xx-fw-4.bin and does not support the old
firmware wl18xx-fw-3.bin and more.
The wl18xx-conf.bin file was removed upstream it does not fit all
devices any more, see this on how to generate one:
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Open_Source_Wireless_Connectivity_wlconf
If someone has a config file for the common platforms with the wifi nic
OpenWrt uses please send a patch.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
SVN-Revision: 46887
