* USB wireless support for ARM device and old kernel version
@ 2009-08-21 12:12 Miguel Garcia-Lopez
2009-08-21 12:39 ` Johannes Berg
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From: Miguel Garcia-Lopez @ 2009-08-21 12:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-wireless
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
Director Técnico
Technical Manager
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* Re: USB wireless support for ARM device and old kernel version
2009-08-21 12:12 USB wireless support for ARM device and old kernel version Miguel Garcia-Lopez
@ 2009-08-21 12:39 ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-21 12:46 ` Miguel Garcia-Lopez
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From: Johannes Berg @ 2009-08-21 12:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Miguel Garcia-Lopez; +Cc: linux-wireless
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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
2009-08-21 12:39 ` Johannes Berg
@ 2009-08-21 12:46 ` Miguel Garcia-Lopez
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From: Miguel Garcia-Lopez @ 2009-08-21 12:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Johannes Berg; +Cc: linux-wireless
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!
--
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
www.envitel.com
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