Re: zd1211rw on ppc (iBook G4) -- Solved, somewhat)

[Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Leonardo H. Souza Hamada
<leonardo.hamada@ufra.edu.br> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> At this moment, after tweaking the zd1211rw code in kernel
> 2.6.31-gentoo, finally I am able to use the WLI-U2-KG54L wireless usb
> dongle on this old ibook.
>
> Browsing the source with a cross referencing tool
> (http://lxr.free-electrons.com) and making additional checking points, I
> could trace the issue as follow.
>
> The problem is that this device returns a regulatory region of 0x49,
> which is not defined in the zd1211rw tables. So the call
>
> r <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=r> = zd_reg2alpha2 <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=zd_reg2alpha2>(mac <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=mac>->regdomain, alpha2);
>
> will fail the initialization process.
>
>
> Workaround:
>
> ----snip----
> int zd_mac_init_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
> {
> ...
>        r = zd_read_regdomain(chip, &default_regdomain);
>        /* A unknown regulatory of 0x49 will be set default to
> ZD_REGDOMAIN_FCC. */
>        if (0x49 == default_regdomain)
>                default_regdomain = ZD_REGDOMAIN_FCC;
> ...
> ----snip----
>
> The above code will force the default regulatry to be FCC code for this
> case. I think that this was the case in previous zd1211rw driver. What
> is the country code for 0x49 region? There is a better way?
>
>
> Thanks all,
>
> Phew!! Leonardo

The vendor driver has quite a lot more regdomain code defined, and
0x49 is apparently

ZD_Region_Japan_3           = 0x49,//G channel->ch1-13; A channel->8~16,34~46;

the rw driver code probably should set it to most restrictive than let
it fail...