From: Michael B. <mic...@gm...> - 2005-11-03 04:06:03
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On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 10:50 +1000, Michael Brett wrote: > Hi everyone (Ralph and Alex in particular), > > I'm currently trying to get the Linksys WCF54g WiFi card to work with my > Gumstix. > > I notice in the email archives that you've had recent luck with this > card. Could you perhaps expand on exactly what changes you've made to > the source code to get this to work? > > I'm a complete n00b to both linux and gumstix, so please be gentle :) > > Cheers, > Michael > > > From: Ralph Metzler <rjkm@me...> > Re: Recommended CF WiFi card(s)? > 2005-10-20 16:31 > Alex Brown writes: > > I'm going to try getting this one running. > > http://www.agere.com/mobility/wireless_lan_drivers.html > > > > I also played around with this driver and a Linksys WCF54G and > got it running about 30 minutes ago. > > I rewrote it to compile with the kernel PCMCIA drivers. For > development I am using it via CF to PCMCIA adapter on a notebook > running kernel 2.6.13.4. Changing that to cross-compile for gumstix > should only take a few changes in the makefile. > > It still makes some problems. There are some strange kernel error > messages I will still have to debug and a larger transfer made it stop > running (IRQ disabled by kernel) but it basically works. > > I only tried STA mode with 40 bit WEP but I guess it should then also > be possible to compile the AP mode version. > > I'll make something available for download later this weekend. > > > Ralph > |