Re: WiFi on alpha
D-Link G550 with Atheros chip does not work (standard madwifi drivers make kernel oops on modproble, openhal branch modprobes but does not work). Switched to Linksys WMP54G which I thought is Broadcom-based, but my revision appeared to be Ralink-based, manufacture's opensource driver works. -- Alexander Kotelnikov Saint-Petersburg, Russia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: WiFi on alpha
Try adding a PCI->USB port card to the PCI bus, then ATMEL driver AT76C503A cards will work, you will need to compile the driver from http://at76c503a.berlios.de , cards are : http://at76c503a.berlios.de/devices.html mel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WiFi on alpha
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 07:58:55PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can any one make a success reporn on plugging any wifi card in an > alpha machine? Would like to do so, but there exist so many hardware > types and drivers, large parts of them is not opensource, some need > binary modules which may be platform dependant etc. Steve's right about the wireless, quite often they just look like strange ethernet cards. Another option, and one I use because I had it lying around, is to convert an old AP into a bridge, using something like OpenWrt or dd-wrt. Then you use normal ethernet cards to connect to it. I have that in my setup. The reason why I don't use wires is because I'm renting the place. I'm using dd-wrt myself, it's prettier! - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au http://www.debian.org/ Debian GNU/Linux, software should be Free -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WiFi on alpha
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 07:58:55PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can any one make a success reporn on plugging any wifi card in an > alpha machine? Would like to do so, but there exist so many hardware > types and drivers, large parts of them is not opensource, some need > binary modules which may be platform dependant etc. If you have a binary kernel module, you indeed have no recourse for getting the device to work with alpha. But the vast majority of drivers are not binary-only; many include binary-only firmware, but firmware is run on the device not on the host processor, so this doesn't prevent the driver from working on alpha. I have no direct experience with wireless on alpha, because I have no reason not to use the perfectly good wires already in place; but the vast majority of wireless network devices should work under alpha just as well as they do under other architectures. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
