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. 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]
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]
