From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:45:48 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] mini-pci wireless driver In-Reply-To: <20081112215654.9A58C832E40A@gemini.denx.de> References: <49EF8B38CAABF74C8FFEA1405FDFBE923CD361@suzexch01.taihootech.com> <20081112215654.9A58C832E40A@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <20081113014548.GC9862@game.jcrosoft.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 22:56 Wed 12 Nov , Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear "Lance Zhang", > > In message <49EF8B38CAABF74C8FFEA1405FDFBE923CD361@suzexch01.taihootech.com> you wrote: > > > > My questions are: How can I support wireless network card on U Boot? > > Correct. And there is no support for TCP/IP einther, nor do we have > X11 or Gnome, and there is neither Eclipse nor Firefox available, > not even OpenOffice or iSCSI support. > > To make the story short: U-Boot is a boot loader, and a pretty > powerful one, but there are certain tasks where it makes sense to use > an OS. > > > I want to implement a wlan mini-pci driver, But when I see U Boot source > > tree, there is no codes related to wireless, do you have any suggestion > > on how to add wireless support on U Boot? Or is there any U Boot > > branches that have already implemented wireless extension on U boot? > > Don't waste your time. Use U-Boot to boot asmall configuration of > Linux with WLAN support included, and use this to do whjat you want to > do. With the Ralink chip it's not too much complicate to add wifi support. You need to upload the firmware and manage the wifi configuration via the firmware. After it will work as ant other ethernet driver. Best Regards, J.