On 06/10/14 17:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de> [14-10-06 17:56]: >> On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 07:44:03PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>> walt <w41...@gmail.com> [14-10-05 19:36]: >>>> On 10/05/2014 07:54 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>>>> walt <w41...@gmail.com> [14-10-05 16:16]: >>>>>>> On 10/05/2014 06:52 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> while trying to get a mt7601sta (UWN200 WiFi dongle) driver running >>>>>>>>> and working I came accross this in the dmesg output: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> [ 9.931938] usb 2-1: device v148f p7601 is not supported >>>>>>> This looks to me like it's the real error, not the one below. >>>>> What I dont understand is: If I provide the kernel driver...why does >>>>> the kernel "decides" not to support the hardware the driver itsself >>>>> supports...? >>>> Where did you get the driver? Are you sure it's really the right one? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> One of the main maintainer for the Beaglebone black kernel sources >>> (Robert C. Nelson) point me to his git repository of this driver. >>> >>> I am now back to kernel 3.8.13, where this stuff runs... >>> (The kernel I tried it before was 3.14.19) >>> But this kernel version get no much updates thess days and is >>> somehow old... >>> >> So you tried to run a driver for 3.8.x on a 3.14.x kernel? >> Such things often result in breakage as, while the kernels interface to >> userspace is very stable, the internal interfaces aren't stable at all. >> Likely >> there would be some other stuff necessary to get the driver to work properly. >> Some googling around led me to [1] though, which seems to imply that there is >> support on newer kernels (3.15.10 and newer), if you use the right patch... >> >> So maybe you are sucessful with that... >> >> WKR >> Hinnerk >> >> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg126291.html > > Moin Hinnerk, > (hopefully have guessed this greet correctly...I am from that > part of Germany ;) > > I have the source of the driver exclusivly compiled for 3.8.13 > as for 3.14.something (cant remember). > 3.14.x has some other problems (on that embedded platform) like > not powering off when shutdown, random reboots and such. > So decided to go back to 3.8.13. > Yesterday I started updateing (eix-sync and emerge) that Gentoo > and it ends up in an endless loop (bash update) of configureing > (damn slow on that mini iron) and compiling -
just a small aside - you might like to read up on cross compiling and save yourself a world of pain http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/beaglebone/install.xml > as it looks - > of a single file. > After more than 10 hours I CTRL-C that, reupated and now I am > ...updateing the bash again. > Sigh. > Currently "fun" is something else... > > Is the 3.15.10++ branch free of things like random reboot and > not powering off? > > Best regards, > mcc > > >
