Re: Fiberline WL-240U aka WL240 maybe even FL-WL24OU support

Hi Sascha,

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Sascha Wuestemann wrote:

> Meanwhile I have spend a few hours on solving the problem.
> I have found
> http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/at76c503a-user/2003-September/000578.html
> and the following answer of Joerg stating that the cvs-snapshot has built
> in the support for the FL-WL240U but the one I have got today hasn't,
> because the new compiled modules still don't recognize the device - I
> couldnt even found a Produkt_ID for 0x14 (remember? 0x1731,0x14) at the
> sources...

I'm pretty sure that the cvs snapshot contains your device id since
2003/10/30, look into at76c505-rfmd2958.c for it.

> Being no c-programmer, I tried to add support to the c files by manually
> editing:
> 	/at76c503a/at76c503-rfmd.c

nop, that's the wrong driver (firmware) variant ...

> I could even ifconfig wlan0 to a correct IP-Addresss etc. and (wow!)
> iwconfig was able to set it's SSID and each setting fine, without any
> errors.
>
> But (argh!) the device is not pinging.

sure, the driver runs fine but you've loaded the wrong firmware into the
device.

/Jörg