USB wireless support for ARM device and old kernel version

USB wireless support for ARM device and old kernel version

[Miguel Garcia-Lopez]

Dear all,

We are developing an embedded linux platform using an ARM-based micro  
and other DSPs from Texas Instruments. Among other things, it supports  
USB.

We now need to add a wifi interface to the device, so we're thinking  
on using a USB wireless device. Now, the problem seems to be re are  
running a 2.6.10 kernel and most of the suff/drivers I found require  
much recent versions to work with.

I'm thinking on trying to compile the source code for some driver(s)  
against our kernel sources, but could not really find any working  
sources since most available driver code and wireless infraestructure  
seems to either be already merged into more recent versions of the  
kernel, or require it for compiling.

Any hints on what to try or driver sources distributions I could try  
to compile against my 2.6.10 kernel?

Thanks in advance!

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Miguel García López
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Re: USB wireless support for ARM device and old kernel version

[Johannes Berg]

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On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 14:12 +0200, Miguel Garcia-Lopez wrote:

> Any hints on what to try or driver sources distributions I could try  
> to compile against my 2.6.10 kernel?

There are none. 2.6.10 basically has no wireless drivers. You can try to
backport compat-wireless, but you're on your own. Just upgrade your
kernel to 2.6.27 or later.

johannes

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Re: USB wireless support for ARM device and old kernel version

[Miguel Garcia-Lopez]

On 21/08/2009, at 14:39, Johannes Berg wrote:

> There are none. 2.6.10 basically has no wireless drivers. You can  
> try to
> backport compat-wireless, but you're on your own. Just upgrade your
> kernel to 2.6.27 or later.


Thanks so much for the concise and quick response. We will try to find  
out wether the kernel upgrade is possible for our board.

Regards and thanks again!

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Miguel García López
Director Técnico
Technical Manager
.......................................................
E N V I T E L
Parque Científico de Madrid - Local 105
PTM - C/Santiago Grisolía, 2
28760 Tres Cantos - Madrid - Spain
T: +34 91 334 06 56
F: +34 91 358 52 36
M: +34 649 91 60 60
.......................................
mgarcia@envitel.com
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