New oleg firmware version

[sebw]

Hi lly

Many thanks for including my sound card (041e:3048) in the r256 unmute patch.
I shall try it out in the next day or two.

[Lesiuk]

Strange question Bluetooth modules are present, bluez already in optware...
Nobody wrote step-by-step guide? Sorry, I know this topic only in russian Bluetooth â wl500gP

I do not know Russian language but it looks like somebody did it. Nice.

I will try it.

Thanks.

[theMIROn]

I do not know Russian language but it looks like somebody did it. Nice.
I will try it.

Btw, you can try http://transtale.google.com to read it from russian to your native

[sebw]

Hi lly

Many thanks for including my sound card (041e:3048) in the r256 unmute patch.
I shall try it out in the next day or two.

Just to confirm that I now have my sound card running unmuted across USB 2.0 using 1.9.2.7-d-r256 on my WL500gx.

Many thanks.

[wpte]

hey lly

would it be possible to set the default regulatory mode in the wireless advanced tab (for wl-500w routers) to 802.11h?
since it's something all the intel cards use and most other wireless cards to get a faster speed than 54mbit.

802.11h is also newer plus it's used in draft-N 2.0 (with the 5GHz band):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11h
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11d

to set it to H I think most people will stick with oleg because they won't notice any difference with original firmware on wireless speeds (since most of them don't look to advanced settings).

thanks

[lly]

would it be possible to set the default regulatory mode in the wireless advanced tab (for wl-500w routers) to 802.11h?

we will try to do that.

[sebw]

I am having trouble using my webcam which worked under 1.9.2.7-10 F/W.
I am using Palantir.
I have modprobed the pwc and pwcx modules but get the following:

dmesg output...

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
pwc Philips webcam module version 9.0.2 loaded.
pwc Supports Philips PCA645/646, PCVC675/680/690, PCVC720[40]/730/740/750 & PCVC830/840.
pwc Also supports the Askey VC010, various Logitech Quickcams, Samsung MPC-C10 and MPC-C30,
pwc the Creative WebCam 5 & Pro Ex, SOTEC Afina Eye and Visionite VCS-UC300 and VCS-UM100.
usb.c: registered new driver Philips webcam
pwc Logitech QuickCam 4000 Pro USB webcam detected.
pwc Registered as /dev/video0.
pwc Philips webcam decompressor routines version 9.0-BETA-2
pwc Supports all cameras supported by the main module (pwc).
pwc Adding decompressor for model 645.
pwc Adding decompressor for model 646.
pwc Adding decompressor for model 675.
pwc Adding decompressor for model 680.
pwc Adding decompressor for model 690.
pwc Adding decompressor for model 720.
pwc Adding decompressor for model 730.
pwc Adding decompressor for model 740.
pwc Adding decompressor for model 750.

Palantir ouput....

$ Apr 24 11:47:31 [config] Ignoring deprecated `Audio' directive at line 67
Apr 24 11:47:31 [main] -- palantir 2.7 starting --
Apr 24 11:47:31 [main] Definitions for 1 devices found
Apr 24 11:47:31 [main] No serial port specified
Apr 24 11:47:31 [main] No named pipe specified
Apr 24 11:47:31 [video] Card:   Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 (/dev/v4l/video0)
Apr 24 11:47:31 [video] Capabilities:   1 (capture )
Apr 24 11:47:31 [video] Size:   (160x120)-(640x480)
Apr 24 11:47:31 [video] Channel no. 0 ('Webcam')        tuners: 0, flags: 0, type: 2, norm: 10937
Apr 24 11:47:31 [video] Unmuted audio input 0
Apr 24 11:47:31 [video] Audio input 0 does not support volume control
Apr 24 11:47:31 [video] RGB palette unavailable.
Apr 24 11:47:31 [video] trying YUV420P...
Apr 24 11:47:31 [video] brightness: 32768  hue: 65535  colour: 32768
Apr 24 11:47:31 [video] contrast: 32768  whiteness: 32768
Apr 24 11:47:31 [video] depth: (24)  palette: 15
Apr 24 11:47:31 [video] Actual capture box is 320x240 (requested 320x240)
Apr 24 11:47:31 [video] Camera has no pan/tilt control
Apr 24 11:47:31 [video] Frame rate set to 15 f/s
Apr 24 11:47:31 [video] Video buffer size: 921600, frames: 2
Apr 24 11:47:31 [video] Allocating yuv->rgb buffer (230400 bytes)
Apr 24 11:47:31 [main] Starting device thread
Apr 24 11:47:31 [audio] Setting up audio device /dev/sound/dsp1
Apr 24 11:47:31 [audio] Audio sample rate set to 8000 Hz
Apr 24 11:47:31 [audio] Audio input buffering: 4 fragments of 256 bytes each
Apr 24 11:47:31 [main] Listening on 0.0.0.0 port 3000
Apr 24 11:47:31 [main] Listening on 0.0.0.0 port 3001
Apr 24 11:47:31 [main] Control queue timeout set to 30 s

Palantir output following client connection....

Apr 24 12:09:32 [main] 192.168.0.1 - #0: connection accepted, spawning server.
Apr 24 12:09:32 [main] 1 client(s) connected
Apr 24 12:09:32 [main] Capture thread started
Apr 24 12:09:32 [http] 192.168.0.1 - video server started
Apr 24 12:09:32 [http] 192.168.0.1 - requested URL `/'
Apr 24 12:09:32 [http] 192.168.0.1 - User-Agent: pclient/ack 2.4 [1] (Win32)
Apr 24 12:09:32 [http] 192.168.0.1 - streaming mode: continuous, closed loop

back to dmesg output....

pwc Failed to set LED on/off time.
pwc set_video_mode(176x144 @ 10, palette 15).
pwc decode_size = 1.
pwc Using alternate setting 1.
hcd.c: use explicit queuing not urb->next
pwc isoc_init() submit_urb 0 failed with error -22
hcd.c: use explicit queuing not urb->next
pwc isoc_init() submit_urb 1 failed with error -22
pwc set_video_mode(320x240 @ 15, palette 15).
pwc decode_size = 3.
pwc Using alternate setting 4.
hcd.c: use explicit queuing not urb->next
pwc isoc_init() submit_urb 0 failed with error -22
hcd.c: use explicit queuing not urb->next
pwc isoc_init() submit_urb 1 failed with error -22

The client shows no picture and top shows no CPU load for Palantir.
I presume the problem is to do with the error -22 which occurs in the pwc-if.c module.
Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.

[lly]

I am having trouble using my webcam which worked under 1.9.2.7-10 F/W.
...
I presume the problem is to do with the error -22 which occurs in the pwc-if.c module.
Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.

This is due to updated kernel code.

Updated:
I was wrong - pwc 10.0.12-rc1 isn't compatible with 2.4 kernels [ At least, urb->next don't used in it. ]

Problems similar to this, present in most old webcam drivers For example - https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/532
We will try to fix this issue, but I can't you promise exact date when it happens.

[sebw]

Should I enter this pwc issue here: http://code.google.com/p/wl500g/issues/list

[lly]

Should I enter this pwc issue here: http://code.google.com/p/wl500g/issues/list

As you wish. People from russian forum discover this bug a few weeks ago. I didn't put this link here since most of people in this thread don't understand russian language.

Unfortunately, webcam developers switched to 2.6 trunk several years ago, so we have to backport much things from new kernels, and this job is not so easy...

[theMIROn]

this job is not so easy...

confirmed. only our free time, desire, ability, volunteers and/or donations are required

[wpte]

Unfortunately, webcam developers switched to 2.6 trunk several years ago, so we have to backport much things from new kernels, and this job is not so easy...

Why is it that we stay with kernel 2.4?
when I read some openWRT stuff I found out the only thing is the wireless driver is still in kernel 2.4 and not 2.6

isn't it easier to port the wireless driver to 2.6 then?

I guess there are also other things that are not compatible

[theMIROn]

isn't it easier to port the wireless driver to 2.6 then

isn't. broadcom wireless driver is closed sourced and shipped in binnaries only for 2.4 kernels yet

[wpte]

isn't. broadcom wireless driver is closed sourced and shipped in binnaries only for 2.4 kernels yet

I hate closed software for linux
they probably didn't update it ever since they released it as well I guess...

lets see if they allow decompiling in the ual
or... maybe send a letter

I'm on this

[lly]

lets see if they allow decompiling in the ual
or... maybe send a letter

As I know, you are not the first, who want ask Broadcom about wl driver sources (OpenWRT team, Oleg). Unfortunately, result is negative