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emil10001
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We can initialize and use the chip with our testing firmware, we just couldn't get it to work properly with Angström yet.
More info (GOOD news
) about the WiFi issue tonight in our blog :"] [/quote]Thanks for the reply. And thank you for all the updates in the last couple of days! It's actually getting to be difficult to keep up with.
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It seems to be good news indeed! I hope ED doesn't mind me quoting this from the official blog.
QUOTE (EvilDragon on the official OpenPandora.org blog)
Transmitting more news
2009-06-16 21:37:25, posted by EvilDragon
Hiya, it's EvilDragon again.
I got some more fresh news, and those are not about delaying or anything like that.
As you have all read, the only driver problem is WiFi. To put things short (and as they are pretty complicated), here is what was our problem:
There's a closed-source driver available for the WiFi chip, but we didn't at all want to use it (hey, we're OPENPandora, not ClosedPandora). Then we found an OpenSource project for that WiFi chip - we used it and it worked well at the beginning (you might remember some WiFi testing videos).
But that driver was poorly coded - and it did have more and more problems. We can't even get to work it anymore with the latest Angström image, only with our testing rootfs (which is good, as we do know that the hardware is fine.
Well, DJWillis wanted to take on the WiFi task - and it's already looking really good. He found another driver which should work way better - and it already compiled with our latest kernel.
So basically, that WiFi issue MIGHT be solved faster than we thought. There's still a lot of work needed, but this has been a HUGE progress.
I'll keep you informed.
QUOTE (EvilDragon on the official OpenPandora.org blog)
Transmitting more news
2009-06-16 21:37:25, posted by EvilDragon
Hiya, it's EvilDragon again.
I got some more fresh news, and those are not about delaying or anything like that.
As you have all read, the only driver problem is WiFi. To put things short (and as they are pretty complicated), here is what was our problem:
There's a closed-source driver available for the WiFi chip, but we didn't at all want to use it (hey, we're OPENPandora, not ClosedPandora). Then we found an OpenSource project for that WiFi chip - we used it and it worked well at the beginning (you might remember some WiFi testing videos).
But that driver was poorly coded - and it did have more and more problems. We can't even get to work it anymore with the latest Angström image, only with our testing rootfs (which is good, as we do know that the hardware is fine.
Well, DJWillis wanted to take on the WiFi task - and it's already looking really good. He found another driver which should work way better - and it already compiled with our latest kernel.
So basically, that WiFi issue MIGHT be solved faster than we thought. There's still a lot of work needed, but this has been a HUGE progress.
I'll keep you informed.
Of course, now we're all spoiled and will be expecting megaton announcements at the rate of one per day.
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QUOTE (EvilDragon on the official OpenPandora.org blog"]It seems to be good news indeed! I hope ED doesn't mind me quoting this from the official blog.
Transmitting more news[/quote]
Of course, now we're all spoiled and will be expecting megaton announcements at the rate of one per day.
I'm expecting kiloton announcements twice per day!
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A kiloton is less then a megaton.
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