If we can get the Marvell firmware on the TX, will a similar approach work on other Palms? Or is this particular to that version of the Marvell WiFi chip?

You mean palmld ? The chip in palmld is pretty ancient and the firmware palm supplies with it is v.3.something (tx has v.4.something, the most recent fw available for CF8385 is v.5.0.16 and USB8388 has v.5.something too). v.4 and v.5 are apparently mostly the same so it works with palmtx with that little patch above, but it seems there are noticable differencies between v.3 and v.4 (I got some command timeouts on palmld and the card basically crashed).

Please give me a tip on how to apply a patch, I've never patched kernel before, and nothing happen if I make patch -p1 *patch*

Thanks for all your hard work on the wifi. I'm looking forward to trying it. However, I did have one question. Since the 2.6.21-hnd kernel isn't supported, can you provide a link to the development kernel that is needed? I did look around a bit this afternoon, but wasn't able to locate the arm development kernel that you mentioned.I thought it might be the 2.6.27 kernel in the hackndev git repository, but I wasn't sure that was the one I should use.

Regards,

LMH

Try this one.

http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/armlinux/kernel/git-cur/linux-2.6-arm.gi...

Hey there!

I'm starting to use linux at my PamlTX and i'm a bit lost here about patching the files and upgrading the kernel.

When i try to patch the files i get this error:

Patching file if_cs.c
patch: bad src file

How do i fix it?

And How to change the kernel too?

Tanks a lot!

Rumour has it that |miska| is preparing a bootpack for the T|X to show at the LinuxEXPO. (Which is today, I believe.) Mebe if we wait a couple of days he will upload it.
~(0__0)~

Hi from Argentina, anybody sucessfully using the patch? Does wifi really work?!?!?!?. Not even tried to load opie on my tx because of the wifi problem. I first read about this 7 months ago, and today while i was tuning a linux laptop i thought about this. Please o please add wifi support, this is a deal-breaker for me. By the way, great work you guys, never gave up on the TX potential.

Marex,

Your work on this has been great. I am new to the Opie TX environment. I have successfully loaded the original Opie on the palm and can't wait to try your patch. Over 3000 students will get the chance to learn about the open source environment at an early age, and you gave them the key. Unfortunately I still need your help. I have two questions about your post.

1) How and were do I place the patch in order to run the dump.

2) I can not find the correct kernel. I would truly appreciate the location of a post were I can download.

We are converting the palms to linux at the cost of a SD chip. This is truly for the kids and open source movement. I am new to development, and would appreciate further guidance. Help us to impact the kids future.

notone1

I think I can partially answer your questions. I have been trying to compile and deploy the kernel myself.
1) The correct kernel is at:
http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/kernel/git-cur/linux-2.6-arm.g...

So in an Ubuntu terminal you would type:

git clone http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/kernel/git-cur/linux-2.6-arm.g...

After it's done, type:
git checkout -t -b devel origin/devel
so that you have the right files.

Save the patch(es?) and pop open another terminal. ( Don't think extensions matter ) cd to the source directory and type:
patch -p0 < /full/path/to/patch.file

And there's your patched kernel source. I'm still trying to figure out what to do beyond that though. :P

Good Luck!

Thanks bug,

Let me understand you on my Linux box download the kernel and patches. Run the patch command and save it in a patch.file.

Is the next step to place the patch file on the palm tx, and upload the patch? If so how would someone do this.

natwrkz

I have no idea.
That's what I'm trying to figure out. /c:<
(Also: The name really doesn't matter. I just wanted to get the info into the file path. (; )

Has anyone been able to compile the recommended kernel? Tried but got an error message the kernel.config was missing any ideas what this file contains or how to create it?

Yo!

I don`t know if i`m right, but i got a kernel and opie at the testing page of Miska. I looked at the kernel config and i saw something about the liberta driver been loaded. I didn`t had time to test it, but i downloaded tx-vanilla-kernel, initrd, and config-tx-vanilla. I also got the latest opie-large ext2.

If anyone would like to test it, here`s the files:

http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~miska/testing

Hi
I've a problem. I don't now how I connect my TX to wifi? In TX have I kernel-Vanila and i n network is wlan but it have any errors. Thanks

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