[fli4l] alix.2d3 installation problem

[Alexander Dahl]

Hei hei,

Bernard schrieb Dienstag, 14. April 2020, 17:02 (CEST):
> Le 14/04/2020 à 07:01, Alexander Dahl a écrit :
>>   lspci -k -nn
>> 
>> We see the device IDs then and can look for that in e.g. kernel code.
>
> fli4l 3.10.19 # lspci -k -nn
> 00:01.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] CS5536 
> [Geode companion] Host Bridge [1022:2080] (rev 33)
>          Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] CS5536 [Geode 
> companion] Host Bridge [1022:2080]
> 00:01.2 Entertainment encryption device [1010]: Advanced Micro Devices, 
> Inc. [AMD] Geode LX AES Security Block [1022:2082]
>          Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Geode LX AES 
> Security Block [1022:2082]
>          Kernel driver in use: Geode LX AES
> 00:09.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M 
> [Rhine-III] [1106:3053] (rev 96)
>          Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device [1106:0106]
>          Kernel driver in use: via-rhine
> 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M 
> [Rhine-III] [1106:3053] (rev 96)
>          Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device [1106:0106]
>          Kernel driver in use: via-rhine
> 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105M 
> [Rhine-III] [1106:3053] (rev 96)
>          Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device [1106:0106]
>          Kernel driver in use: via-rhine
> 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Ralink corp. Device [1814:0801]
>          Subsystem: Gemtek Technology Co., Ltd Device [17f9:0028]

That PCI ID 1814:0801 is not known by the Linux kernel, not in master
which is at v5.7-rc1 currently. I'm not entirely sure what to do about
this now, we could ask on the netdev mailing list, maybe someone knows
that card. It might help, if you have a precise description, e.g.
everything printed on the card, maybe some pictures?

Maybe there's a non mainline driver for this, or someone has it already
in development?

We could just add that PCI ID to the driver, but that's more or less
crossing fingers and seeing if it works, that might as well just fail at
runtime. Without knowing some details of the card, this is not the best
idea in my opinion.

> 00:0f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] CS5536 
> [Geode companion] ISA [1022:2090] (rev 03)
>          Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] CS5536 [Geode 
> companion] ISA [1022:2090]
>          Kernel driver in use: cs5535-mfd
> 00:0f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] CS5536 
> [Geode companion] IDE [1022:209a] (rev 01)
>          Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] CS5536 [Geode 
> companion] IDE [1022:209a]
>          Kernel driver in use: pata_amd
> 00:0f.4 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] CS5536 
> [Geode companion] OHC [1022:2094] (rev 02)
>          Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] CS5536 [Geode 
> companion] OHC [1022:2094]
>          Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci
> 00:0f.5 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] CS5536 
> [Geode companion] EHC [1022:2095] (rev 02)
>          Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] CS5536 [Geode 
> companion] EHC [1022:2095]
>          Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
>
>> Well, I'm a bit puzzled the driver is not loaded. Could you please try
>> this again?
>> 
>>    modprobe -v rt2800pci
>
> fli4l 3.10.19 # modprobe -v rt2800pci

After that dmesg would show something, if the card is known to the
kernel. But as already written above, the kernel does not know about a
card with that PCI ID and so nothing happens, this is the expected
result.

>> Just to remind me, you're still trying with fli4l 3.10.x, right?
>
> yes, i will test with version 4, but i haven't had time yet

If you want to use that WiFi card, I would recommend it. Adding new
cards to the kernel is a lot easier on recent kernels, no one would
support us to add a new card to kernel v3.16 … the chances to get
something to work are a lot better with kernel 5.4 or 5.6 in fli4l 4.0!

Greets
Alex

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