On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:51 PM, RB <aoz....@gmail.com> wrote: >> Currently I am working on the brcm 2.4 build and was hoping to move to >> the 2.6 kernel if the wifi and pcmcia support was resolved. I saw a >> post in the forums saying wifi was reasonably stable so was going to >> check out head and build and see how it goes. > > I also did some work on the PCMCIA bit. As far as I know, it's still > broken - the TI chipset on a Broadcom bus is a pretty unique and > there's only scattered interest in fixing it. Someone better with > drivers than I will have to take a look at the interrupt handling and > figure out why it's locking up when disabling interrupts. As noted > before, Linksys' driver is pretty ugly with a lot of magic numbers and > evidently relies on some buggy initialization.
Ahh ok... so from that I take it the 2.4 kernel is the way to go as there isn't much interest / will to get it working with the 2.6 kernel. Unless linksys release an updated source with a 2.6 kernel I doubt somehow it's going to happen. >> My wish list includes: >> Proper support without needing to specify prod/vendor for usbserial >> for 4 umts/hsdpa cards including: >> Novatel u630 and x870 >> Haewei 600 & 800 >> >> Cdma/evdo cards >> Sierra aircard 580 & 595 >> >> Ipwireless PCMCIA card which is a PCMCIA card not a cardbus card which >> there are 2.6 kernel drivers for in the kernel source. Can work with >> jiri if I need to. > > Not sure about the Novatel/Huawei/ipwireless cards, but the patches I > posted to the list last year enable the Sierra cards with the 2.4 > kernel; is something not working? I've not looked at the > Novatel/Huawei cards, but if they have a 2.4 driver they'd be trivial > to incorporate. Otherwise, the bus driver fix will block those. The huawei and novatel cards work, just need to be inited by loading usbserial with the product/vendor. Will take another look at branch and see how they go. >> Also I have a wish to support SMS from the gsm cards as there is a >> page I found listing all AT commands to interrogate the SMS messages. >> pull them off the card and put them into a sqlite db to be viewed in x- >> wrt. Plus have the reverse having x-wrt doing an insert on a table and >> the service picking up the MSG and sending a SMS. Could be good for >> monitoring active Internet connection or sending SMS when bad things >> happen etc. When time permitted I was going to tale the comgt code and >> see what could be done there. >> Would like to have evdo cards also do SMS but their interface is not >> AT command based and have snoopypro sniff of the traffic on windows >> but am not good enough coder to turn that into useable code in linux. > > That will be more of a package than anything G3G-specific. There are > several programs already available for sending SMS via serial > connections (emulated or not). Most of them would probably be pretty > easy to package. Or at least dissect and emulate. Thats my plan, just having gone searching for tools for sending/receiving SMSs. I found these pages http://designbuildtestrepeat.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/huawei-e220-on-linux-for-sms/ http://www.developershome.com/sms/ Lots of good info. Just seems that it can't be easily done or no one has really wanted to do it on the EVDO cards yet. > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
