Yeay, GOOD WORK. Congrats
Rob
Paul Sokolovsky schrieb:
> Hello kernel-discuss,
>
> After another brainstorming night on #htc-linux, mystery of ACX chip
> connected to PCMCIA interface is solved. This opens up road to WiFi
> support on h4000, htcblueangel, loox720, and other devices.
>
> And the issues was ... well, that PCMCIA ACX is indeed full-fledged
> PCMCIA device, d'oh. Well, this (not so) little acx chip is pretty
> bloated creature, able to talk to a host via raw memory mapping, PCMCIA,
> CardBus, PCI, USB, and SDIO. So far supported models (hx4700,
> htcuniversal, rx3000) used raw memory mapping (aka slavemem
> interface), so we kinda took it for granted that models where it is on
> PCMCIA memory range is the same, just chip-selected there. Well, not,
> it requires going thru additional PCMCIA-specific configuration.
>
> Writing acx_cs driver is yet task to do (won't be too easy, as
> PCMCIA card services thing is bloated one on its own), but here's the
> hack to make it work now:
>
> [load acx modules as usual]
> devmem2 0x28000200 h 0x45
> [iwconfig as usual]
>
> First ping of h4000 WiFi:
>
> root_at_h4000:~$ ping 192.168.20.1
> PING 192.168.20.1 (192.168.20.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 192.168.20.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=6.7 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.20.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=34.9 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.20.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=7.4 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.20.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=7.4 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.20.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=7.5 ms
>
>
> Thanks everyone who participated in this trial - William Reese for
> helpful hints, Oleg Gusev for processing all the ACX info and
> insisting there should be pcmcia driver for it, and BabelO for
> everything possible and impossible on his htcblueangel, like I did on
> h4000.
>
>
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