Wireless Linux(802.11) for Embedded PowerPC

[Chun Chung Lo]

Hi,

This project is my university graduation project, so it is now stopped.
(I just finished some ugly prototypes :)

As I said before, I used ELDK for my project (since I am a student at
that moment, I really do not know how to manually build/compile a GNU
cross-platform toolchains), there is no WLAN drivers bundled inside the
toolkit. Also my WLAN card is based on Intersil Prism 2 chipset, so my
only choice is linux-wlan package. I do not know the project status, but
the driver stability seems OK for me. (No crash occurred during I do so
many ugly tests :)

But the performance and the compatibilty is quite good (provided that
the PCMCIA socket drirver is working properly) for a such small system
(MPC860 @ 50MHz).

Also I cannot see any drivers existing in the upstream kernel are really
support the "Intersil Prism 2 WLAN" cards (my card is differ from those
Orinoco cards and Hermes cards, also the drivers are also differ a lot).


If you are going to use Intersil Prism 2 cards/chips, I would suggest
you to use the linux-wlan driver (but seems this driver does not support
AP mode yet...)

Thanks.

Best regards,
Lo Chun Chung

-----Original Message-----
From: John W. Linville [mailto:linville at tuxdriver.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 06 September, 2006 9:58 PM
To: Chun Chung Lo
Cc: wei.li4 at elf.mcgill.ca; linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Wireless Linux(802.11) for Embedded PowerPC


On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:30:00AM +0800, Chun Chung Lo wrote:

> 1. WLAN card driver: linux-wlan -- http://www.linux-wlan.org/

Is this project even still active?  The last update to the page was 2.5
years ago (2/2004), and many of the links are broken...

Do the prism drivers in the upstream kernel not work for you?

John
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John W. Linville
linville at tuxdriver.com

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