[Cbe-oss-dev] ps3 linux kernel & wifi

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sun, 6 May 2007, nick kama wrote:
> I'm sorry to trouble you, i build a ps3 kernel  in ubuntu 7.04   using the
> source you provide linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux.git
> <http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux.git;a=summary>  .
> 
> At the boot time the system hang looking for root device , and after a while
> i figured out that device name changed and all i need to do is to replace in
> kboot.conf    sda1 with ps3da1 and so on .. I  wonder if this is normal or
> did i miss something ?

Indeed. The old storage driver used the SCSI framework, while the new one (at
least the disk part) uses the block layer directly. Hence the new device names
`ps3d' instead of `sd'.

If you use udev and file system labels, everything should still work fine.

> Anyway now kernel boots but  i was'nt able to deal with wireless : iwconfig
> tells me that eth0 has wireless extension but actually i'm not able to get
> ip , or set any parameter. What i want to know if wireless under linux is
> supposed to work  with  firmware 1.5 of ps3 or only with later version.

Wireless needs at least 1.60, IIRC.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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