[U-Boot-Users] wlan driver

[U-Boot-Users] wlan driver

[Dan Malek]

Hello everyone.

Has anyone worked on a 802.11 wireless driver for u-boot?
I'm faced with a board that has mini-PCI, adapters aren't
working for standard cards, and it looks like the only
solution may be a 3.3V wireless LAN card.

There are some "standard" 3.3V mini-PCI cards for
laptops, but I don't know how the connectors attach
or if the magnetics are on the cards.  If anyone knows,
that would be useful information too.

Thanks for any suggestions (I suspect Wolfgang will
respond with a URL to an archive I couldn't find) :-)


	-- Dan

[U-Boot-Users] wlan driver

[Wolfgang Denk]

Hi Dan,

in message <c48defeba68ed687d83d7baa28cf738e@embeddededge.com> you wrote:
> 
> Has anyone worked on a 802.11 wireless driver for u-boot?

Probably. Craig A. Vanderborgh  reported  in  January  (12  Jan  2005
17:31:01  -0500)  that he was going to work on Cisco/Aironet wireless
drivers, but I haven't heard anything from him since.

> I'm faced with a board that has mini-PCI, adapters aren't
> working for standard cards, and it looks like the only
> solution may be a 3.3V wireless LAN card.

Be careful. Chose a card for which you can get at  least  full  Linux
source code. There are still cards with binary-only HAL modules which
are more or less useless to try.

> Thanks for any suggestions (I suspect Wolfgang will
> respond with a URL to an archive I couldn't find) :-)

Sorry, I'm afraid I'm not much of help here.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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