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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/wimax/i2400m.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/wimax/i2400m.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 194388c0c351..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/wimax/i2400m.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,283 +0,0 @@ -.. include:: <isonum.txt> - -==================================================== -Driver for the Intel Wireless Wimax Connection 2400m -==================================================== - -:Copyright: |copy| 2008 Intel Corporation < linux-wimax@intel.com > - - This provides a driver for the Intel Wireless WiMAX Connection 2400m - and a basic Linux kernel WiMAX stack. - -1. Requirements -=============== - - * Linux installation with Linux kernel 2.6.22 or newer (if building - from a separate tree) - * Intel i2400m Echo Peak or Baxter Peak; this includes the Intel - Wireless WiMAX/WiFi Link 5x50 series. - * build tools: - - + Linux kernel development package for the target kernel; to - build against your currently running kernel, you need to have - the kernel development package corresponding to the running - image installed (usually if your kernel is named - linux-VERSION, the development package is called - linux-dev-VERSION or linux-headers-VERSION). - + GNU C Compiler, make - -2. Compilation and installation -=============================== - -2.1. Compilation of the drivers included in the kernel ------------------------------------------------------- - - Configure the kernel; to enable the WiMAX drivers select Drivers > - Networking Drivers > WiMAX device support. Enable all of them as - modules (easier). - - If USB or SDIO are not enabled in the kernel configuration, the options - to build the i2400m USB or SDIO drivers will not show. Enable said - subsystems and go back to the WiMAX menu to enable the drivers. - - Compile and install your kernel as usual. - -2.2. Compilation of the drivers distributed as an standalone module -------------------------------------------------------------------- - - To compile:: - - $ cd source/directory - $ make - - Once built you can load and unload using the provided load.sh script; - load.sh will load the modules, load.sh u will unload them. - - To install in the default kernel directories (and enable auto loading - when the device is plugged):: - - $ make install - $ depmod -a - - If your kernel development files are located in a non standard - directory or if you want to build for a kernel that is not the - currently running one, set KDIR to the right location:: - - $ make KDIR=/path/to/kernel/dev/tree - - For more information, please contact linux-wimax@intel.com. - -3. Installing the firmware --------------------------- - - The firmware can be obtained from http://linuxwimax.org or might have - been supplied with your hardware. - - It has to be installed in the target system:: - - $ cp FIRMWAREFILE.sbcf /lib/firmware/i2400m-fw-BUSTYPE-1.3.sbcf - - * NOTE: if your firmware came in an .rpm or .deb file, just install - it as normal, with the rpm (rpm -i FIRMWARE.rpm) or dpkg - (dpkg -i FIRMWARE.deb) commands. No further action is needed. - * BUSTYPE will be usb or sdio, depending on the hardware you have. - Each hardware type comes with its own firmware and will not work - with other types. - -4. Design -========= - - This package contains two major parts: a WiMAX kernel stack and a - driver for the Intel i2400m. - - The WiMAX stack is designed to provide for common WiMAX control - services to current and future WiMAX devices from any vendor; please - see README.wimax for details. - - The i2400m kernel driver is broken up in two main parts: the bus - generic driver and the bus-specific drivers. The bus generic driver - forms the drivercore and contain no knowledge of the actual method we - use to connect to the device. The bus specific drivers are just the - glue to connect the bus-generic driver and the device. Currently only - USB and SDIO are supported. See drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/i2400m.h for - more information. - - The bus generic driver is logically broken up in two parts: OS-glue and - hardware-glue. The OS-glue interfaces with Linux. The hardware-glue - interfaces with the device on using an interface provided by the - bus-specific driver. The reason for this breakup is to be able to - easily reuse the hardware-glue to write drivers for other OSes; note - the hardware glue part is written as a native Linux driver; no - abstraction layers are used, so to port to another OS, the Linux kernel - API calls should be replaced with the target OS's. - -5. Usage -======== - - To load the driver, follow the instructions in the install section; - once the driver is loaded, plug in the device (unless it is permanently - plugged in). The driver will enumerate the device, upload the firmware - and output messages in the kernel log (dmesg, /var/log/messages or - /var/log/kern.log) such as:: - - ... - i2400m_usb 5-4:1.0: firmware interface version 8.0.0 - i2400m_usb 5-4:1.0: WiMAX interface wmx0 (00:1d:e1:01:94:2c) ready - - At this point the device is ready to work. - - Current versions require the Intel WiMAX Network Service in userspace - to make things work. See the network service's README for instructions - on how to scan, connect and disconnect. - -5.1. Module parameters ----------------------- - - Module parameters can be set at kernel or module load time or by - echoing values:: - - $ echo VALUE > /sys/module/MODULENAME/parameters/PARAMETERNAME - - To make changes permanent, for example, for the i2400m module, you can - also create a file named /etc/modprobe.d/i2400m containing:: - - options i2400m idle_mode_disabled=1 - - To find which parameters are supported by a module, run:: - - $ modinfo path/to/module.ko - - During kernel bootup (if the driver is linked in the kernel), specify - the following to the kernel command line:: - - i2400m.PARAMETER=VALUE - -5.1.1. i2400m: idle_mode_disabled -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - - The i2400m module supports a parameter to disable idle mode. This - parameter, once set, will take effect only when the device is - reinitialized by the driver (eg: following a reset or a reconnect). - -5.2. Debug operations: debugfs entries --------------------------------------- - - The driver will register debugfs entries that allow the user to tweak - debug settings. There are three main container directories where - entries are placed, which correspond to the three blocks a i2400m WiMAX - driver has: - - * /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:DEVNAME/ for the generic WiMAX stack - controls - * /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:DEVNAME/i2400m for the i2400m generic - driver controls - * /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:DEVNAME/i2400m-usb (or -sdio) for the - bus-specific i2400m-usb or i2400m-sdio controls). - - Of course, if debugfs is mounted in a directory other than - /sys/kernel/debug, those paths will change. - -5.2.1. Increasing debug output -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - - The files named *dl_* indicate knobs for controlling the debug output - of different submodules:: - - # find /sys/kernel/debug/wimax\:wmx0 -name \*dl_\* - /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/i2400m-usb/dl_tx - /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/i2400m-usb/dl_rx - /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/i2400m-usb/dl_notif - /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/i2400m-usb/dl_fw - /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/i2400m-usb/dl_usb - /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/i2400m/dl_tx - /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/i2400m/dl_rx - /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/i2400m/dl_rfkill - /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/i2400m/dl_netdev - /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/i2400m/dl_fw - /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/i2400m/dl_debugfs - /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/i2400m/dl_driver - /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/i2400m/dl_control - /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/wimax_dl_stack - /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/wimax_dl_op_rfkill - /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/wimax_dl_op_reset - /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/wimax_dl_op_msg - /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/wimax_dl_id_table - /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/wimax_dl_debugfs - - By reading the file you can obtain the current value of said debug - level; by writing to it, you can set it. - - To increase the debug level of, for example, the i2400m's generic TX - engine, just write:: - - $ echo 3 > /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/i2400m/dl_tx - - Increasing numbers yield increasing debug information; for details of - what is printed and the available levels, check the source. The code - uses 0 for disabled and increasing values until 8. - -5.2.2. RX and TX statistics -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - - The i2400m/rx_stats and i2400m/tx_stats provide statistics about the - data reception/delivery from the device:: - - $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/i2400m/rx_stats - 45 1 3 34 3104 48 480 - - The numbers reported are: - - * packets/RX-buffer: total, min, max - * RX-buffers: total RX buffers received, accumulated RX buffer size - in bytes, min size received, max size received - - Thus, to find the average buffer size received, divide accumulated - RX-buffer / total RX-buffers. - - To clear the statistics back to 0, write anything to the rx_stats file:: - - $ echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/i2400m_rx_stats - - Likewise for TX. - - Note the packets this debug file refers to are not network packet, but - packets in the sense of the device-specific protocol for communication - to the host. See drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/tx.c. - -5.2.3. Tracing messages received from user space -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - - To echo messages received from user space into the trace pipe that the - i2400m driver creates, set the debug file i2400m/trace_msg_from_user to - 1:: - - $ echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/i2400m/trace_msg_from_user - -5.2.4. Performing a device reset -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - - By writing a 0, a 1 or a 2 to the file - /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0/reset, the driver performs a warm (without - disconnecting from the bus), cold (disconnecting from the bus) or bus - (bus specific) reset on the device. - -5.2.5. Asking the device to enter power saving mode -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - - By writing any value to the /sys/kernel/debug/wimax:wmx0 file, the - device will attempt to enter power saving mode. - -6. Troubleshooting -================== - -6.1. Driver complains about ``i2400m-fw-usb-1.2.sbcf: request failed`` ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - If upon connecting the device, the following is output in the kernel - log:: - - i2400m_usb 5-4:1.0: fw i2400m-fw-usb-1.3.sbcf: request failed: -2 - - This means that the driver cannot locate the firmware file named - /lib/firmware/i2400m-fw-usb-1.2.sbcf. Check that the file is present in - the right location. |