Greetings all;
I bought a Belkin Wireless G card, a pci 802-11 radio of some sort.
The main chip on it wears the label "RTL8185L"
Is there any support for making this a wireless server in the kernel at
the present time?
I have visions of sticking it in the last pci slot of a box running DD-WRT
if there is a driver available.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 12:51:49AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I bought a Belkin Wireless G card, a pci 802-11 radio of some sort.
>
> The main chip on it wears the label "RTL8185L"
>
> Is there any support for making this a wireless server in the kernel at
> the present time?
>
> I have visions of sticking it in the last pci slot of a box running DD-WRT
> if there is a driver available.
Gene,
There is no such driver in the kernel at this time. There is an
out-of-kernel driver available here:
http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/
YMMV.
FWIW, I know of at least one person working on a driver for the
d80211-based stack in wireless-dev. I'm not sure when that will be
available publicly.
Hth!
John
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John W. Linville
[email protected]
On Thursday 04 January 2007 17:14, John W. Linville wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 12:51:49AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I bought a Belkin Wireless G card, a pci 802-11 radio of some sort.
>>
>> The main chip on it wears the label "RTL8185L"
>>
>> Is there any support for making this a wireless server in the kernel
>> at the present time?
>>
>> I have visions of sticking it in the last pci slot of a box running
>> DD-WRT if there is a driver available.
>
>Gene,
>
>There is no such driver in the kernel at this time. There is an
>out-of-kernel driver available here:
>
> http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/
>
>YMMV.
>
>FWIW, I know of at least one person working on a driver for the
>d80211-based stack in wireless-dev. I'm not sure when that will be
>available publicly.
>
>Hth!
>
Possibly in the future John. I took the Belkin back and got a Netgear
WG311T for another $35. Staples let me open it there and based on the
fact that the cd has some drivers on it that start with ATHE_* (the
chipset has a tincover soldered to the board over it so we can't ID it
that way), I'm assuming its an Atheros chipset, and Brian does has that
support available in DD-WRT, which is where this puppy will live. But
I'm up to my butt in alligators ATM, so it may be a day or 3 till I can
try it. I have a 160GB drive laying on the lappies carry case in the
doorway, to go up and be installed in the neighbors box to replace a 30GB
that upchucked all over their windows install, and convince it to let me
install windows on that box the 2nd time. M$ are such rectums over that.
Its piracy you know. :(
And its already 21:22 here and I'd druther space it for the night. :( I
probably will since I kept them up till midnight last night finding the
missing 1.5 megabaud download speed and making their wireless in a new
Acer lappy work. But its unsecured and that makes me nervous if some war
driver comes by. Not a high probability out here in the sticks, but you
never know. So I gotta go ask some dumb questions here and there.
Thanks John.
>John
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:48:36PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Possibly in the future John. I took the Belkin back and got a Netgear
> WG311T for another $35. Staples let me open it there and based on the
> fact that the cd has some drivers on it that start with ATHE_* (the
> chipset has a tincover soldered to the board over it so we can't ID it
> that way), I'm assuming its an Atheros chipset, and Brian does has that
> support available in DD-WRT, which is where this puppy will live. But
> I'm up to my butt in alligators ATM, so it may be a day or 3 till I can
> try it. I have a 160GB drive laying on the lappies carry case in the
> doorway, to go up and be installed in the neighbors box to replace a 30GB
> that upchucked all over their windows install, and convince it to let me
> install windows on that box the 2nd time. M$ are such rectums over that.
> Its piracy you know. :(
Atheros makes a lot of different chipsets. Not all are supported. Many
newer ones require annoying firmware loaded into an arm processor on the
card. Hopefully you found one that does have a working driver.
--
Len Sorensen
On Friday 05 January 2007 09:26, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:48:36PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Possibly in the future John. I took the Belkin back and got a Netgear
>> WG311T for another $35. Staples let me open it there and based on the
>> fact that the cd has some drivers on it that start with ATHE_* (the
>> chipset has a tincover soldered to the board over it so we can't ID it
>> that way), I'm assuming its an Atheros chipset, and Brian does has
>> that support available in DD-WRT, which is where this puppy will live.
>> But I'm up to my butt in alligators ATM, so it may be a day or 3 till
>> I can try it. I have a 160GB drive laying on the lappies carry case
>> in the doorway, to go up and be installed in the neighbors box to
>> replace a 30GB that upchucked all over their windows install, and
>> convince it to let me install windows on that box the 2nd time. M$
>> are such rectums over that. Its piracy you know. :(
>
>Atheros makes a lot of different chipsets. Not all are supported. Many
>newer ones require annoying firmware loaded into an arm processor on the
>card. Hopefully you found one that does have a working driver.
>
>--
>Len Sorensen
On that I have NDI Len. DD-WRT doesn't work OOTB on this, but must have a
registration key before it will enable the wireless stuff.
I requested an email from Brian when he was available so that I could
trade the challenge number for an enabling key, but he hasn't replied
yet.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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