Re: wireless Q

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>]

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

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