Re: atmel & OQO

Hi,

Jesus Arango wrote:
> 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.

The modules are loaded if hotplug detects an appropriate device during 
system boot.
You may want to restart hotplug by "/etc/init.d/hotplug restart" after a 
fresh build of the module.

> 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

If iwconfig doesn't report a device those drivers don't seem to detect 
your device.
Try to find out the vendor/product IDs for your device. Probably it's 
just a matter of missing entries in the driver.
"lspci" or "lsusb" may help you.

If you're sure that your device is of type at76c505a-rfmd2958 then you 
can add the appropriate IDs to "at76c505a-rfmd2958.c".

> 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.

There are actually two different drivers for atmel-based WLAN devices.
I guess the one from sourceforge [1] is the in-kernel version.
The News page on [1] says that USB support requires a kernel patch...

Good luck,

    Florian

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