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

[embedos <embedos@gmail.com>]

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


2005/12/9, Li Weichen <iaadoa@gmail.com>:
>
>  Then do you connected it to the usb1.1 port of omap?  Will the interface
> speed limits the wifi performance?
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>
> Thanks again.
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> *From:* embedos [mailto:embedos@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, December 09, 2005 12:07 AM
> *To:* Li Weichen
> *Cc:* Linux-omap-open-source@linux.omap.com
> *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,
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> edit Makefile and specify your kernel source directory,
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> make arm
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> insmod ra2570.ko
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> then using iwconfig to config your wlan card
>
> done
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> 2005/12/8, Li Weichen <iaadoa@gmail.com>:
>
> 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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