atmel & OQO

Jesus Arango <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:19:00 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.atmel-wlan
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

I need some help getting my atmel interface working. 

I have an OQO machine (www.oqo.com) that has a built-in Atmel
AT76C505A Wifi interface. I am running kernel 2.6.8-2-386 (Debian
kernel).

I dowloaded the cvs tarball of the at76c503a berlios driver from their
website. I compiled and installed the drivers and I also installed the
firmware in the atmel-firmware-1.2.tar.gz tarball. I have the hotplug
package installed too.

Problem description:

First of all, my drivers don't get loaded automatically. I am guessing
this could be because the WIFI is built-in son I can't plug it on and
off.

Second, nothing happens when I load the driver manually using
"modprobe at76c505a-rfmd2958". The following drivers got loaded but no
interface is reported by iwconfig or ifconfig.

- at76c505a-rfmd2958
- at76c503
- at76_usbdfu

I noticed there are some atmel in-kernel drivers with the 2.6 kernel.
These are called atmel.ko, atmel_pci.ko and atmel_cs.ko (there is no
atmel_usb.ko). I don't know at this point which drivers I really need
or how to make them work.

I need some guidence on making this work or on troubleshooting the problem.

Thanks
Jesus Arango