Latest version of zd1211b and its latest firmware

[Nazim Khan-3]

Hi,

Currently I am using Vendor driver version 2.22 and firmware version
1.4 for zd1211b chipset.
Is there any latest version of this driver available?

I read in the mailing list someone mentioning vendor driver 3.0 but
could not find it anywhere on net.

Thanks and regards,
Nazim Khan

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[Hin-Tak Leung-3]

3.0 was hosted on the kernel web site.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/zd1211/

You might want to get my patch sets if you want to run 3.0 on more recent kernels than 2.6.26(?).
http://htl10.users.sourceforge.net/LinuxUSB_AR2524-3.0.0.56_2009May_pathset/

The in-kernel rw driver works quite well so unless you want AP mode or antenna affinity, you probably should just use the rw driver.


     


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[Nazim Khan-3]

Hi Hin,

Thanks for your quick response.
I am using Vendor driver and rw driver because my platform is based on
2.6.18 and I believe rewritten driver got added in the kernel
in 2.6.21 or somewhere there.

Looks like in 3.0.0.56 firmware is added as header files, compared to
firmware upload from user space as it used to be in 2.22.

Does you patches contains fix for moving to recent kernel or does it
have any issue/problem fixes also ?

Thanks and regards,
Nazim Khan

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Hin-Tak
Leung<htl10@...> wrote:

>
> 3.0 was hosted on the kernel web site.
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/zd1211/
>
> You might want to get my patch sets if you want to run 3.0 on more recent kernels than 2.6.26(?).
> http://htl10.users.sourceforge.net/LinuxUSB_AR2524-3.0.0.56_2009May_pathset/
>
> The in-kernel rw driver works quite well so unless you want AP mode or antenna affinity, you probably should just use the rw driver.
>
>
>
>
>

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[Hin-Tak Leung-3]

--- On Tue, 23/6/09, Nazim Khan <nazim.asad@...> wrote:

> Looks like in 3.0.0.56 firmware is added as header files,
> compared to
> firmware upload from user space as it used to be in 2.22.

rw driver has them from user space, the vendor driver has always have them in header files.
 
> Does you patches contains fix for moving to recent kernel
> or does it
> have any issue/problem fixes also ?

Both - there are about 7-8 parts, 2 or 3 of them move you to recent kernels, there is a big fix I think, and a couple of cosmetic things (e.g. cut down on too many messages). See the individual git log headers.


     


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[Hin-Tak Leung-3]

--- On Tue, 23/6/09, Nazim Khan <nazim.asad@...> wrote:

> Hi Hin,
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> So far my 2.22 driver is working fine except one problem
> that under
> stress I get AP loss
> (did not receive the beacon in the 5 seconds).
>
> I was hoping that this issue may get fixed with the latest
> driver
> version but even 3.0.0.56 gave me the same
> problem. I did not check your patch changes though.
>
> I had same issue with 2.18 version also. I tested on PC as
> well as on
> my ARM based board but everywhere
> I get the same problem.

Next to the newer patchset is a similiar set for the older 2_22 at:
ZD1211LnxDrv_2_22_0_0_2009May_pathset

(sorry I just realized I misspelled patchset during the upload for both!) I didn't want to advertise the older set since 2.22 itself is considered obsolete. As in 3.0, some of them are for porting to newer kernels, some are bug fixes, some are cosmetic, but the headers or even the name of each patch would say what each one does. The separation of patches for different purposes are less clear cut in the 2.22 series - or rather, after patching the 2.22 by trial and error,  when I was porting 3.0 to newer kernels, etc, I did it more cleanly.

 



     


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