hi folks,
I harvested a mini-pci wifi card with a marvell chip, and plugged it
into my soekris net4801.
I patched the mwl8k driver:
mwl8k: add support for MWL8361P
patch from here, with tweaks to apply:
https://dev.openwrt.org/attachment/ticket/7209/mwl8k_8361p.patch
firmware is obtainable following recipe here:
https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/7209#comment:5
Firmware extraction from Windows driver was described in
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=103243#p103243
The patch is small & straightforward,
it just adds DEVICE-ID and struct recording firmware names.
I followed the recipe to get fw files,
moprobe mwl8k works, module appears in lsmod output,
and it increases use-count on its dependencies,
so things look sort-of ok.
root@voyage:/var/log# lsmod | grep mwl8k
mwl8k 29691 0
mac80211 159120 2 mwl8k,rtl8180
cfg80211 106017 3 mwl8k,rtl8180,mac80211
However, nothing else happens with card, driver:
- lspci -k fails to show driver operating the card.
- no network device shows up in ifconfig
- udev logs some activity, below compares working wifi card to non-working.
Best I can tell, mwl8k driver is not populating /sys/ the same way rtl8180 is:
root@voyage:/var/log# ls /sys/devices/pci0000\:00/0000\:00\:0{a,e}.0/
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.0/:
broken_parity_status enable net resource1
class ieee80211 power subsystem
config irq remove subsystem_device
consistent_dma_mask_bits local_cpulist rescan subsystem_vendor
device local_cpus reset uevent
dma_mask_bits modalias resource vendor
driver msi_bus resource0
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0/:
broken_parity_status dma_mask_bits modalias reset subsystem_device
class enable msi_bus resource subsystem_vendor
config irq power resource0 uevent
consistent_dma_mask_bits local_cpulist remove resource1 vendor
device local_cpus rescan subsystem
and consequently, udev is missing critical elements, so cant add a net-device
root@voyage:/var/log# jobs
[1]+ Running tail -f daemon.log | grep devpath &
root@voyage:/var/log# for m in mwl8k rtl8180 ; do modprobe $m; done
Jun 18 05:21:40 loading mwl8k_init emerg
voyage udevd-work[4955]: device loading mwl8k_init alert
0xb77b1188 has devpath '/module/mwl8k'
loading mwl8k_init crit
loading mwl8k_init err
loading mwl8k_init warn
loading mwl8k_init info
loading mwl8k_init default
Message from syslogd@voyage at Sat Jun 18 05:21:40 2011 ...
voyage kernel: loading mwl8k_init emerg
Jun 18 05:21:40 voyage udevd-work[4955]: device 0xb77b1188 has devpath
'/bus/pci/drivers/mwl8k'
Jun 18 05:21:40 voyage udevd-work[4955]: device 0xb77b1188 has devpath
'/module/rtl8180'
Jun 18 05:21:40 voyage udevd-work[4955]: device 0xb77b1188 has devpath
'/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.0/ieee80211/phy1'
Jun 18 05:21:40 voyage udevd-work[5171]: device 0xb779c050 has devpath
'/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.0/net/wlan0'
Jun 18 05:21:40 voyage udevd-work[5171]: device 0xb77b1198 has devpath
'/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.0'
Jun 18 05:21:40 voyage udevd-work[5171]: device 0xb77b2ee8 has devpath
'/devices/pci0000:00'
Jun 18 05:21:40 voyage udevd-work[5171]: '/lib/udev/pci-db' (stderr)
'device 0xb778b108 has devpath '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00ieee80211
phy1: hwaddr 0030bd4de247, RTL8180 + Philips
:0a.0/net/wlan0''
Jun 18 05:21:40 voyage udevd-work[5171]: '/lib/udev/pci-db' (stderr)
'device 0xb778b2c0 has devpath '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.0''
root@voyage:/var/log# Jun 18 05:21:40 voyage udevd-work[4955]: device
0xb77b1188 has devpath
'/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.0/ieee80211/phy1/rfkill5'
Jun 18 05:21:40 voyage udevd-work[5183]: device 0xb779c050 has devpath
'/bus/pci/drivers/rtl8180'
Jun 18 05:21:40 voyage udevd-work[4955]: device 0xb77b1188 has devpath
'/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.0/ieee80211/phy1/rfkill5'
Q. is does this interpretation make sense ?
Am I missing anything ?
what to try next ?
any other hints ?
thanks in advance
Jim Cromie