Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
Kalle Valo wrote: From now on I will not send any more stlc45xx news to maemo-developers. Everyone interested should subscribe to stlc45xx-devel or follow stlc45xx category from my blog[1]: Hi Kalle I'm delighted that you're doing this work - can I ask you to please continue to post to maemo-developers - there appears to be a lot of interest and IMO we just don't need the fragmentation at this point. I don't want to subscribe to yet another list and I won't get round to following a blog; I suspect I'm not alone. We get a few messages a day - if this was lkml and the flood of messages drowned you out (or if you intend to flood the list!) then I'd understand; equally if you were working on something that was not maemo-specific then it would make sense. Otherwise I'd like to see you hang out here :) David -- Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once... ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
ext David Greaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kalle Valo wrote: From now on I will not send any more stlc45xx news to maemo-developers. Everyone interested should subscribe to stlc45xx-devel or follow stlc45xx category from my blog[1]: Hi Kalle Hello David, I'm delighted that you're doing this work - can I ask you to please continue to post to maemo-developers - there appears to be a lot of interest and IMO we just don't need the fragmentation at this point. I don't want to subscribe to yet another list and I won't get round to following a blog; I suspect I'm not alone. The discussion on stlc45xx might get very technical (at least I'm hoping so) and I doubt that very few people in maemo-developersare interested about that. I don't know how many people are currectly subscribed to maemo-developers, but I would guess that very few of them are really interested in technical aspects of the wlan driver. Most of the people just want the driver to work, they don't care about anything else. We get a few messages a day - if this was lkml and the flood of messages drowned you out (or if you intend to flood the list!) then I'd understand; equally if you were working on something that was not maemo-specific then it would make sense. The archive for stlc45xx-devel should be open, so you can always check from there what's happening. And if something newsworthy has happened, I can always drop a note to maemo-developers as well. Otherwise I'd like to see you hang out here :) Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere. I just won't be talking about stlc45xx all the time :) -- Kalle Valo ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
Hi Kalle, The archive for stlc45xx-devel should be open, so you can always check from there what's happening. And if something newsworthy has happened, I can always drop a note to maemo-developers as well. Better to use linux-omap ML . Let's not create one more mailing list for specific driver itself. -- ---Trilok Soni http://triloksoni.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/triloksoni ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
ext Andrew Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:46:56 +0300 Kalle Valo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The discussion on stlc45xx might get very technical (at least I'm hoping so) and I doubt that very few people in maemo-developersare interested about that. As a compromise I would propose to cross-post important messages/announcements to both lists :-) Sounds good, I'll do that. -- Kalle Valo ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
ext John Holmblad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kalle, Hello John, I took a look at the OS2008 wireless supplicant and it looks like it supports WPA and WPA with EAP but I do not see WPA2. eapd (the supplicant in OS2008) does support WPA2. I think the UI just doesn't make a difference between WPA1 and WPA2, there's just a very well hidden use only WPA2 setting somewhere. That suggests to me then that the supplicant referred to in this thread is NOT the standard one. Yes, use of wpa_supplicant in OS2008 needs a patched version of cx3110x. Currently the supplicant is called eapd and made by Nokia. -- Kalle Valo ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
ext John Holmblad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kalle, John, thanks for sharing that info. That suggests to me that there may be a performance security tradeoff when using the N800/N810 with encryption. Is the software implementation of the AES algorithm fast enough to be useable without noticing a performance degradation on the N800? Don't make too fast conclusions :) stlc45xx is work in progress and the reason why TKIP or CCMP is done is software is just that I haven't had the time to implement the hard encryption. It should be relative easily todo, patches welcome :) I surmise that the use of TKIP (RC4 based) encryption would be faster although less secure than AES/CCMP. Do you know if there is any noticeable degradation with AES? No, I haven't seen any measurement results about this. Also, is the wpa_supplicant a standard part of the Nokia OS200X or is it a maemo garage type of software component? I already answered this one. But here's the link to wpa_supplicant page: http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/ -- Kalle Valo ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
ext Lorn Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sending this from Helsinki-Vantaa airport on my way to Berlin. I will be giving a presentation about stlc45xx at the Maemo Summit on Friday 15:00. See you there! hopefully these will be recorded for those on the other side of the planet. Luckily my presentation was not recorded :) But I have made the slides available here: http://stlc45xx.garage.maemo.org/stlc45xx-maemo-summit-2008.pdf From now on I will not send any more stlc45xx news to maemo-developers. Everyone interested should subscribe to stlc45xx-devel or follow stlc45xx category from my blog[1]: http://kvalo.wordpress.com/category/stlc45xx/ [1] Yes, I now have a blog even though I'm old school. Just don't tell my co-workers, otherwise I will be laughed out from the coffee room... -- Kalle Valo ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
ext Raphaël Jacquot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kalle Valo wrote: I'm excited to announce a new project called stlc45xx, an open source WLAN driver for Nokia N800 and N810. It's using mac80211 stack included in Linux since 2.6.22. Even though I currently classify the driver as alpha quality I have managed to transfer 1.2 GB of data with iperf. great. so I gather we should see a working kismet package rapidely ? The driver is not ready for normal users yet. -- Kalle Valo ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
The SVN version of kismet works minus packet injection. http://qwerty12.maemobox.org/screenies/kismet.png That was running for ~8 hours. I've had it running for 24 hours exactly. 24 hours was enough for me to put the dump in my aircrack-ng build and have a key in 1m 30s. But I go off topic here and apologize. ext Raphaël Jacquot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kalle Valo wrote: I'm excited to announce a new project called stlc45xx, an open source WLAN driver for Nokia N800 and N810. It's using mac80211 stack included in Linux since 2.6.22. Even though I currently classify the driver as alpha quality I have managed to transfer 1.2 GB of data with iperf. great. so I gather we should see a working kismet package rapidely ? ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
Hi, 2008/9/20 Faheem Pervez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The SVN version of kismet works minus packet injection. http://qwerty12.maemobox.org/screenies/kismet.png That was running for ~8 hours. I've had it running for 24 hours exactly. 24 hours was enough for me to put the dump in my aircrack-ng build and have a key in 1m 30s. could you please prepare a Kismet package for N800/N810? -- Andrea Grandi email: a.grandi [AT] gmail [DOT] com website: http://www.andreagrandi.it PGP Key: http://www.andreagrandi.it/pgp_key.asc ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
Hi, I don't have a ready package of the latest svn but the kismet aircrack-ng build on : http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20888 work fine and will carry on dumping packets. On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Andrea Grandi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 2008/9/20 Faheem Pervez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The SVN version of kismet works minus packet injection. http://qwerty12.maemobox.org/screenies/kismet.png That was running for ~8 hours. I've had it running for 24 hours exactly. 24 hours was enough for me to put the dump in my aircrack-ng build and have a key in 1m 30s. could you please prepare a Kismet package for N800/N810? -- Andrea Grandi email: a.grandi [AT] gmail [DOT] com website: http://www.andreagrandi.it PGP Key: http://www.andreagrandi.it/pgp_key.asc ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
Kalle, thanks for sharing that info. That suggests to me that there may be a performance security tradeoff when using the N800/N810 with encryption. Is the software implementation of the AES algorithm fast enough to be useable without noticing a performance degradation on the N800? I surmise that the use of TKIP (RC4 based) encryption would be faster although less secure than AES/CCMP. Do you know if there is any noticeable degradation with AES? Also, is the wpa_supplicant a standard part of the Nokia OS200X or is it a maemo garage type of software component? Best Regards, John Holmblad Acadia Secure Networks, LLC Kalle Valo wrote: ext John Holmblad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kalle, Hi John, does this driver provide full support for 802.11i-2004 (sometimes refereed to as WPA enterprise or WPA2 enterprise^1 ) or does it only support pre-shared key authentication? Actually the driver doesn't care, this is entirely up to the supplicant (in user space). I have used wpa_supplicant while testing the driver which supports also WPA enterprise (and almost any other method available). Actually currently the driver knows nothing about encryption or decryption because mac80211 encrypts all the frames in CPU. Hardware crypto support is in the TODO list. ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
Kalle, I took a look at the OS2008 wireless supplicant and it looks like it supports WPA and WPA with EAP but I do not see WPA2. That suggests to me then that the supplicant referred to in this thread is NOT the standard one. Best Regards, John Holmblad Acadia Secure Networks, LLC * * *Serving the SmartDigital^TM home, entrepreneurial enterprise, and emerging network service provider markets* * * *GSEC Gold, GCWN Gold, GAWN, GGSC-0100, NSA-IAM, NSA-IEM*** *Cisco Select Certified Partner and SMB Specialist | **Microsoft Small Business Specialist | Speakeasy Certified VOIP Partner | Linksys Authorized LVS Partner | Qualys Certified Qualysguard Specialist* * * (M) 703 407 2278 (F) 703 620 5388 (W) www.acadiasecure.com primary email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] backup email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kalle Valo wrote: ext John Holmblad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kalle, Hi John, does this driver provide full support for 802.11i-2004 (sometimes refereed to as WPA enterprise or WPA2 enterprise^1 ) or does it only support pre-shared key authentication? Actually the driver doesn't care, this is entirely up to the supplicant (in user space). I have used wpa_supplicant while testing the driver which supports also WPA enterprise (and almost any other method available). Actually currently the driver knows nothing about encryption or decryption because mac80211 encrypts all the frames in CPU. Hardware crypto support is in the TODO list. ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
John Holmblad jholmblad at acadiasecurenets.com writes: Also, is the wpa_supplicant a standard part of the Nokia OS200X or is it a maemo garage type of software component? Nokia ITOS uses a proprietary supplicant that is part of the closed-source ICD software. ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
Hi Kalle Valo and OSSO team. Kalle Valo schrieb: I'm excited to announce a new project called stlc45xx, an open source WLAN driver for Nokia N800 and N810. It's using mac80211 stack included in Linux since 2.6.22. Even though I currently classify the driver as alpha quality I have managed to transfer 1.2 GB of data with iperf. This is great news! And what is also great about this is that the specification for the device is included. Our aim is to run the project in community mode and all community contribution is very welcomed. A git repository will be set up soon to make it easier for the developers to work on the driver. The project web page will contain more information as it comes available: http://stlc45xx.garage.maemo.org/ Very nice! AFAIK this is the first time that the community can help in delivering a free core component. I really appreciate this! What is also great is that DSME is going to be opened. The temptation is big to ask for BME as well but for today let us be happy with the things we got. :) In talks to other people here at the summit the move to open those two components was seen as a good step in the right direction. Congrats to those who made it possible! Regards Robert signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
Kalle Valo wrote: I'm excited to announce a new project called stlc45xx, an open source WLAN driver for Nokia N800 and N810. Excellent news, many thanks Nokia :-) This saves our N8x0 tablets from bitrotting. And hopefully 770 too. Now it actually makes sense to beat linux-omap into working shape for all current tablets giving them extra life for years. It's using mac80211 stack included in Linux since 2.6.22. I wonder what kernel will Fremantle use. Would be nice to run it with same kernel and switch between wi-fi stacks on the fly. Our aim is to run the project in community mode and all community contribution is very welcomed. Will definitely try. 770 support comes to my mind first, current stlc45xx_readXX/writeXX code uses SPI framework, 770 has the chip connected over McBSP port. Should be posible to either resurrect direct McBSP code back or maybe add its driver it into SPI framework. Frantisek ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
Kalle Valo kalle.valo at nokia.com writes: I'm excited to announce a new project called stlc45xx, an open source WLAN driver for Nokia N800 and N810. This is wonderful news, it is one less proprietary component needed on the tablets. Now if you guys could just free DSME and BME, I'd have few complaints left. :P I recommend anyone interested about the project joining stlc45xx-devel. Unfortunately the garage project is closed currently, but it will be opened as soon as possible. Does this mean we cannot download the source code or does this mean that joining the mailing list and/or the garage project is closed? Also, since the tablets are currently using a 2.6.21 kernel, what is the recommended source tree (e.g. linux-omap) and/or version to upgrade so we can test the driver? Also, if you are free to answer this question, what is the officiality of this project? Is this done with the blessing of Conexant? Does anyone have access to documentation or is this all done by reverse engineering? Thanks, Andrew ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
Andrew, read the http://stlc45xx.garage.maemo.org/ and you will have answers for your questions. Regards, Leandro. On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Andrew Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kalle Valo kalle.valo at nokia.com writes: I'm excited to announce a new project called stlc45xx, an open source WLAN driver for Nokia N800 and N810. This is wonderful news, it is one less proprietary component needed on the tablets. Now if you guys could just free DSME and BME, I'd have few complaints left. :P I recommend anyone interested about the project joining stlc45xx-devel. Unfortunately the garage project is closed currently, but it will be opened as soon as possible. Does this mean we cannot download the source code or does this mean that joining the mailing list and/or the garage project is closed? Also, since the tablets are currently using a 2.6.21 kernel, what is the recommended source tree (e.g. linux-omap) and/or version to upgrade so we can test the driver? Also, if you are free to answer this question, what is the officiality of this project? Is this done with the blessing of Conexant? Does anyone have access to documentation or is this all done by reverse engineering? Thanks, Andrew ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers -- Leandro Melo de Sales Pervasive and Embedded Computing Laboratory Master in Computer Science http://embedded.ufcg.edu.br/indexen.html +55 83 3310-1404 (extension 208) http://www.leandrosales.com/ PGP: 0xDE492718 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
On Sep 18, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Andrew Barr wrote: Now if you guys could just free DSME and BME, I'd have few complaints left. :P DSME is being opened. -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council chair ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
Frantisek, ok, you got me. bitrotting? May I surmise that that is what happens to files, hw software when you throw them in the bit bucket aka the trash-heap of digital history? Best Regards, John Holmblad Acadia Secure Networks, LLC * * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Frantisek Dufka wrote: Kalle Valo wrote: I'm excited to announce a new project called stlc45xx, an open source WLAN driver for Nokia N800 and N810. Excellent news, many thanks Nokia :-) This saves our N8x0 tablets from bitrotting. And hopefully 770 too. Now it actually makes sense to beat linux-omap into working shape for all current tablets giving them extra life for years. It's using mac80211 stack included in Linux since 2.6.22. I wonder what kernel will Fremantle use. Would be nice to run it with same kernel and switch between wi-fi stacks on the fly. Our aim is to run the project in community mode and all community contribution is very welcomed. Will definitely try. 770 support comes to my mind first, current stlc45xx_readXX/writeXX code uses SPI framework, 770 has the chip connected over McBSP port. Should be posible to either resurrect direct McBSP code back or maybe add its driver it into SPI framework. Frantisek ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
John Holmblad wrote: Frantisek, ok, you got me. bitrotting? May I surmise that that is what happens to files, hw software when you throw them in the bit bucket aka the trash-heap of digital history? Yes, this happens also to linux kernel and all software running on the tablet. Having free wi-fi driver means open possibilities to have newer systems ported to the tablet (like Android for instance) so people are not permanently stuck with ancient software on the tablet. Until now it was possible to use wi-fi on the tablet only with 2.6.16, 2.6.18 and 2.6.21 linux kernels (all quite old today) and only in specifc configurations that do not break closed wi-fi driver module. Frantisek ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
Kalle Valo wrote: I'm excited to announce a new project called stlc45xx, an open source WLAN driver for Nokia N800 and N810. It's using mac80211 stack included in Linux since 2.6.22. Even though I currently classify the driver as alpha quality I have managed to transfer 1.2 GB of data with iperf. Excellent news! our sales and marketing will love you! Our aim is to run the project in community mode and all community contribution is very welcomed. A git repository will be set up soon to make it easier for the developers to work on the driver. The project web page will contain more information as it comes available: http://stlc45xx.garage.maemo.org/ I recommend anyone interested about the project joining stlc45xx-devel. Unfortunately the garage project is closed currently, but it will be opened as soon as possible. I'm sending this from Helsinki-Vantaa airport on my way to Berlin. I will be giving a presentation about stlc45xx at the Maemo Summit on Friday 15:00. See you there! hopefully these will be recorded for those on the other side of the planet. -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter Software Engineer, Systems Group, Trolltech, a Nokia company ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
Ryan Abel wrote: On Sep 18, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Andrew Barr wrote: Now if you guys could just free DSME and BME, I'd have few complaints left. :P DSME is being opened. Also excellent news! -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter Software Engineer, Systems Group, Trolltech, a Nokia company ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
Does it support packet injection :) ? I want that featur :D 2008/9/18 Lorn Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ryan Abel wrote: On Sep 18, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Andrew Barr wrote: Now if you guys could just free DSME and BME, I'd have few complaints left. :P DSME is being opened. Also excellent news! -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter Software Engineer, Systems Group, Trolltech, a Nokia company ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers -- Andrea Grandi email: a.grandi [AT] gmail [DOT] com website: http://www.andreagrandi.it PGP Key: http://www.andreagrandi.it/pgp_key.asc ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
ext Frantisek Dufka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Our aim is to run the project in community mode and all community contribution is very welcomed. Will definitely try. 770 support comes to my mind first, current stlc45xx_readXX/writeXX code uses SPI framework, 770 has the chip connected over McBSP port. Should be posible to either resurrect direct McBSP code back or maybe add its driver it into SPI framework. Nokia 770 has stlc4370 and documentation for that chipset is not available. I'm not aware of the differences between stlc4370 and the newer chips so I cannot say how much work there is needed to get the driver working in 770. -- Kalle Valo ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
ext John Holmblad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kalle, Hi John, does this driver provide full support for 802.11i-2004 (sometimes refereed to as WPA enterprise or WPA2 enterprise^1 ) or does it only support pre-shared key authentication? Actually the driver doesn't care, this is entirely up to the supplicant (in user space). I have used wpa_supplicant while testing the driver which supports also WPA enterprise (and almost any other method available). Actually currently the driver knows nothing about encryption or decryption because mac80211 encrypts all the frames in CPU. Hardware crypto support is in the TODO list. -- Kalle Valo ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
ext Lorn Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kalle Valo wrote: I'm excited to announce a new project called stlc45xx, an open source WLAN driver for Nokia N800 and N810. It's using mac80211 stack included in Linux since 2.6.22. Even though I currently classify the driver as alpha quality I have managed to transfer 1.2 GB of data with iperf. Excellent news! our sales and marketing will love you! Heh. This release is for developers, definitely not for users. But maybe some day... I'm sending this from Helsinki-Vantaa airport on my way to Berlin. I will be giving a presentation about stlc45xx at the Maemo Summit on Friday 15:00. See you there! hopefully these will be recorded for those on the other side of the planet. I hope not because I suck as a presenter =) -- Kalle Valo ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
Kalle Valo wrote: Nokia 770 has stlc4370 and documentation for that chipset is not available. I'm not aware of the differences between stlc4370 and the newer chips so I cannot say how much work there is needed to get the driver working in 770. Not good :-( But still, the driver talks to the firmware and so far you were shipping both (3825/3826.arm) firmwares together so I hoped they offer same API when accessed over SPI. Or do you have some special and different 3826.arm firmware now for open source driver? Or is the difference in umac.ko for 770 vs N8x0? I hope not, I think Poky people were succesfull with 2.6.18 kernel and umac.ko for N800 runing on 770. So can we take the firmware as working black box offering same functionality for both chips? Frantisek ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
ext Andrew Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kalle Valo kalle.valo at nokia.com writes: I recommend anyone interested about the project joining stlc45xx-devel. Unfortunately the garage project is closed currently, but it will be opened as soon as possible. The garage project is open now, or at least it should be. Please let me know if there are problems. Does this mean we cannot download the source code I put the source code temporarily to the webpage but in the future all releases are available from the project page: https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_id=774 or does this mean that joining the mailing list and/or the garage project is closed? They should work now as the garage project is open. Also, since the tablets are currently using a 2.6.21 kernel, what is the recommended source tree (e.g. linux-omap) and/or version to upgrade so we can test the driver? I used stlc45xx 0.1.3 against this commit from linux-omap: commit de1121fdb899f762b9e717f44eaf3fae7c00cd3e Author: Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Aug 27 04:31:59 2008 +0300 ARM: OMAP2: Fix definition of SGX clock register bits Also, if you are free to answer this question, what is the officiality of this project? Is this done with the blessing of Conexant? Does anyone have access to documentation or is this all done by reverse engineering? Everything is fully legal and official, no reverse engineering were done. This all was made possible by good co-operation with ST NXP Wireless. As someone said, the homepage constains a bit more information, like the link to the firmware documentation. I'll make better webpage next week. -- Kalle Valo ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
ext Andrea Grandi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does it support packet injection :) ? I want that featur :D The best part with mac80211 design is that the driver doesn't care[1], it's up to mac80211 if packet injection works or not. I haven't tested it myself, but my understanding is that mac80211 supports packet injection now. [1] Of course the driver might have a bug which prevents packet injection, but that's just a bug. The driver itself doesn't need to be know where the transmitted packet is coming from. -- Kalle Valo ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
ext Frantisek Dufka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kalle Valo wrote: Nokia 770 has stlc4370 and documentation for that chipset is not available. I'm not aware of the differences between stlc4370 and the newer chips so I cannot say how much work there is needed to get the driver working in 770. Not good :-( Yeah, I know. But still, the driver talks to the firmware and so far you were shipping both (3825/3826.arm) firmwares together so I hoped they offer same API when accessed over SPI. Let's hope so. Or do you have some special and different 3826.arm firmware now for open source driver? There is no separate firmware, stlc45xx uses the same firmware as cx3110x/umac combination. Or is the difference in umac.ko for 770 vs N8x0? I hope not, I think Poky people were succesfull with 2.6.18 kernel and umac.ko for N800 runing on 770. So can we take the firmware as working black box offering same functionality for both chips? I can't comment on this. This is also a bit grey area for me because the documentation covers only stlc4550 and stlc4560. I don't know the legal situation with stlc4370. -- Kalle Valo ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
Kalle Valo wrote: ext Lorn Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kalle Valo wrote: I'm excited to announce a new project called stlc45xx, an open source WLAN driver for Nokia N800 and N810. It's using mac80211 stack included in Linux since 2.6.22. Even though I currently classify the driver as alpha quality I have managed to transfer 1.2 GB of data with iperf. Excellent news! our sales and marketing will love you! Heh. This release is for developers, definitely not for users. But maybe some day... of course. I am a bit of a forward thinker. :) I'm sending this from Helsinki-Vantaa airport on my way to Berlin. I will be giving a presentation about stlc45xx at the Maemo Summit on Friday 15:00. See you there! hopefully these will be recorded for those on the other side of the planet. I hope not because I suck as a presenter =) -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter Software Engineer, Systems Group, Trolltech, a Nokia company ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 23:29 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: I'm sending this from Helsinki-Vantaa airport on my way to Berlin. I will be giving a presentation about stlc45xx at the Maemo Summit on Friday 15:00. See you there! hopefully these will be recorded for those on the other side of the planet. I hope not because I suck as a presenter =) No escaping, it _will_ be recorded ;P Regards, Jamie -- http:/www.linuxuk.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
Re: stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 23:47 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: Everything is fully legal and official, no reverse engineering were done. This all was made possible by good co-operation with ST NXP Wireless. That's great news for the free software world, thanks to all involved! Now, transforming my Nokia N810 paired with the modem of my Nokia 6086 into a pocket wifi hotspot is just a few releases away :). Laurent ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers