Thanks. Yes, USB wi fi is what I'm after. I did find the driver I
needed after enabling the WLAN80211 and EXPERIMENTAL options. The device
discovery appears to work, and with wireless tools I can iwconfig and
see my interface.
QUESTION: when I "ifoncfig wlan0 up" it results in an attempt to load a
firmwmare file as follows. as you can see, it fails. What are these
firmware files? I can't find it in my build output. How do I build it or
where do I get it? Where would I put it on my target?
I did search for answers to these questions and tried to stick an
rt73.bin of unknown origin (to me anyway) in /lib/firmware but I got the
same error.
-sh-2.05b# ifconfig wlan0 up
[ 2212.027071] phy1 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Loading
firmware file 'rt73.bin'.
[ 2272.058793] phy1 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to
request Firmware.
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
Thanks again,
Mike
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Grant Likely wrote:
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Mike Timmons <mike_timm...@trimble.com> wrote:
I'm running 2.6.24 with Freescale's lite5200 as my base. I'm interested in
this USB adaptor for wireless USB, but my web search does not make me
confident that my effort will yield fruit.
Can anyone direct me to a good source outlining success stories with
wireless USB adaptors? At present I'm mesing with Linksys WUSB54GC and some
driver source from Ralink, but my cross-compile is not working.
Umm, the WUSB54GC is not a "wireless USB" adapter. It is a USB WiFi
adapter. If you're looking for wireless USB then it is the wrong
device.
If you are looking for a suitable wifi adapter, then that device
should work, but if you can go with a PCI or a miniPCI WiFi adapter
instead then you should get better performance. The 5200 only has USB
1.1.
I'm having good success with an Atheros miniPCI adapter at the moment
using a 2.6.28 kernel.
g.
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