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+   Driver for the Intel Wireless Wimax Connection 2400m
+
+   (C) 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.