Can the driver of a wlan card for PC be used in embedded sytems?

Hi all,

Is there anybody can tell me that if I can use the wlan card driver for PC in the embedded system? I guess that there is something related to the interface. Then if I use usb will it work? Or do I need to modify some settings in the source code?

By the way can anybody give me some advice on card selection? Anything related to vendors, chips, drivers, interfaces and so on would be helpful. Better 802.11g cards.

Thank you all in advance and best regards!

Li Weichen
2005-12-8

You are a lucky guy!
I just did a similiar work today.
you can buy this wlan card: asus w167g (usb)
and get driver from here:
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/rt2570-cvs-daily.tar.gz (for 2.6 kernel)

untar,
edit Makefile and specify your kernel source directory, make arm
insmod ra2570.ko
then using iwconfig to config your wlan card done

2005/12/8, Li Weichen <[email protected]>:

Then do you connected it to the usb1.1 port of omap? Will the interface speed limits the wifi performance?

Thanks again.

_____

From: embedos [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 12:07 AM
To: Li Weichen
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Can the driver of a wlan card for PC be used in embedded sytems?

You are a lucky guy!

I just did a similiar work today.

you can buy this wlan card: asus w167g (usb)

and get driver from here:

http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/rt2570-cvs-daily.tar.gz (for 2.6 kernel)

untar,

edit Makefile and specify your kernel source directory,

make arm

insmod ra2570.ko

then using iwconfig to config your wlan card

done

2005/12/8, Li Weichen <[email protected]>:

Hi all,

Is there anybody can tell me that if I can use the wlan card driver for PC in the embedded system? I guess that there is something related to the interface. Then if I use usb will it work? Or do I need to modify some settings in the source code?

By the way can anybody give me some advice on card selection? Anything related to vendors, chips, drivers, interfaces and so on would be helpful. Better 802.11g cards.

Thank you all in advance and best regards!

Li Weichen
2005-12-8

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unfortunately, yes.
you will need usb 2.0 interface to access the full speed of the 80211g wlan card.

2005/12/9, Li Weichen <[email protected]>:

Then you implement the usb 2.0 interface with another chip? What is your choice? The OMAP5912 only supports usb1.1 interface.

_____

From: embedos [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 8:57 AM
To: Li Weichen
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Can the driver of a wlan card for PC be used in embedded sytems?

unfortunately, yes.

you will need usb 2.0 interface to access the full speed of the 80211g wlan card.

2005/12/9, Li Weichen <[email protected]>:

Then do you connected it to the usb1.1 port of omap? Will the interface speed limits the wifi performance?

Thanks again.

_____

From: embedos [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 12:07 AM
To: Li Weichen
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Can the driver of a wlan card for PC be used in embedded sytems?

You are a lucky guy!

I just did a similiar work today.

you can buy this wlan card: asus w167g (usb)

and get driver from here:

http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/rt2570-cvs-daily.tar.gz (for 2.6 kernel)

untar,

edit Makefile and specify your kernel source directory,

make arm

insmod ra2570.ko

then using iwconfig to config your wlan card

done

2005/12/8, Li Weichen < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]>:

Hi all,

Is there anybody can tell me that if I can use the wlan card driver for PC in the embedded system? I guess that there is something related to the interface. Then if I use usb will it work? Or do I need to modify some settings in the source code?

By the way can anybody give me some advice on card selection? Anything related to vendors, chips, drivers, interfaces and so on would be helpful. Better 802.11g cards.

Thank you all in advance and best regards!

Li Weichen
2005-12-8

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