Wireless LAN resources for Linux http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
The linux-wlan™ Project http://www.linux-wlan.org/
Linux Wireless Networking HowTo http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-hn/wmp11-linux.htm
WLAN Adapter Chipset Directory http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz
See WLAN Adapter Chipset Directory.
CompactFlash cards using the Prism2/2.5/3 chip set are expected to work (No Guarantee)
Known working Cards:
Blackfin Interface Card
Under the top level submenu “Device Drivers” you should find the “Network device support” menu.
[*] Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extensions --- Obsolete Wireless cards support (pre-802.11) < > STRIP (Metricom starmode radio IP) < > AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN Pcmcia wireless support < > Xircom Netwave AirSurfer Pcmcia wireless support --- Wireless 802.11 Frequency Hopping cards support < > Aviator/Raytheon 2.4MHz wireless support --- Wireless 802.11b ISA/PCI cards support <*> Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol) < > Atmel at76c50x chipset 802.11b support --- Wireless 802.11b Pcmcia/Cardbus cards support <*> Hermes PCMCIA card support < > Symbol Spectrum24 Trilogy PCMCIA card support < > Blackfin WLAN card support < > Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards < > Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards < > IEEE 802.11 for Host AP (Prism2/2.5/3 and WEP/TKIP/CCMP)
Change configuration during kernel configuration.
see also here gpio_interrupt_processing
root:~> dmesg Linux version 2.6.12.1 (michael@mhenner-D01) (gcc version 3.4.4) #8 Tue Nov 15 5 Blackfin support (C) 2004 Analog Devices, Inc. ADSP-BF537 Rev. 0.2 uClinux/BF537 Blackfin uClinux support by blackfin.uclinux.org Processor Speed: 500 MHz core clock and 71 Mhz System Clock Board Memory: 64MB Memory map: text = 0x001000-0x0cc7c0 data = 0x0d90fc-0x0f75b0 bss = 0x0f75b0-0x104e24 rootfs = 0x3b00000-0x3f00000 stack = 0x0da000-0x0dc000 Command line: 'root=/dev/mtdblock0 rw' On node 0 totalpages: 15104 DMA zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 15104 pages, LIFO batch:7 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 Instruction Cache Enabled Data Cache Enabled (write-through) Hardware Trace Enabled Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock0 rw Configuring Blackfin Priority Driven Interrupts PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 4096 bytes) Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Physical pages: 3b00 Memory available: 58752k/64667k RAM, (47k init code, 813k kernel code, 175k dat) Blackfin Scratchpad data SRAM: 4 KB Blackfin DATA_A SRAM: 16 KB Blackfin DATA_B SRAM: 16 KB Calibrating delay loop... 996.14 BogoMIPS (lpj=4980736) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized Capability LSM initialized Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 NET: Registered protocol family 16 Blackfin DMA Controller for BF533 stamp_init(): registering device resources Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e BlackFin BF533 serial driver version 2.00 With DMA Support io scheduler noop registered io scheduler cfq registered RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize orinoco 0.14alpha2 (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <) orinoco_wlan_blackfin.c (Michael Hennerich <hennerich@blackfin.uclinux.org>) orinoco_wlan_blackfin: CIS: 01:03:00:00:FF:17:04:67: Detected Orinoco/Prism2 WLAN BLACKFIN device at irq:34, io addr:0x20300000 Blackfin WLAN interrupt setup: flag PF4, irq 34 eth1: Hardware identity 801b:0000:0001:0000 eth1: Station identity 001f:0002:0001:0004 eth1: Firmware determined as Intersil 1.4.2 eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth1: MAC address 00:0F:66:10:C7:11 eth1: Station name "Prism I" eth1: ready uclinux[mtd]: RAM probe address=0x3b00000 size=0x400000 Creating 1 MTD partitions on "RAM": 0x00000000-0x00400000 : "EXT2fs" uclinux[mtd0]: set EXT2fs to be root filesystem NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048) NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k freed (0xcd000 - 0xd7000) ttyS0 at irq = 18 is a builtin BlackFin UART dma_alloc_init: dma_page @ 0x000d3000 - 256 pages at 0x03f00000 bfin_change_speed: baud = 57600, cval = 0x13 root:~>
orinoco 0.14alpha2 (David Gibson hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au, Pavel Roskin <)
orinoco_wlan_blackfin.c (Michael Hennerich hennerich@blackfin.uclinux.org)
orinoco_wlan_blackfin: CIS: 01:03:00:00:FF:17:04:67:
Detected Orinoco/Prism2 WLAN BLACKFIN device at irq:34, io addr:0x20300000
Blackfin WLAN interrupt setup: flag PF4, irq 34
eth1: Hardware identity 801b:0000:0001:0000
eth1: Station identity 001f:0002:0001:0004
eth1: Firmware determined as Intersil 1.4.2
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth1: MAC address 00:0F:66:10:C7:11
eth1: Station name “Prism I”
eth1: ready
root:~> iwconfig eth1 nickname "STAMP" mode Ad-Hoc essid "foo" root:~> ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.2 up root:~> eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
and on the host PC (as root):
imhotep:/home/rgetz # iwconfig eth1 mode Ad-Hoc essid "foo" imhotep:/home/rgetz # ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.3 up imhotep:/home/rgetz # ping 192.168.1.2 PING 192.168.1.2 (192.168.1.2) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1026 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=31.8 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=3.48 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.2: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=5.43 ms
root:~> iwconfig eth1 essid dlink key s:12345 root:~> dhcpcd eth1 & 28 root:~> eth1: New link status: Connected (0001) root:~> iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"dlink" Nickname:"Prism I" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:13:46:C7:A2:EE Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3 Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:3132-3334-35 Security mode:open Power Management:off Link Quality:88/92 Signal level:5/153 Noise level:119/153 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 root:~>
root:~> ifconfig eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:66:10:C7:11 inet addr:192.168.0.100 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 Interrupt:34 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 root:~>
root:~> ping 192.168.0.1 PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=127 time=3.1 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=127 time=2.7 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=127 time=2.7 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=127 time=2.6 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=127 time=3.6 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=127 time=2.6 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=127 time=2.8 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=127 time=2.7 ms --- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics --- 8 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 2.6/2.8/3.6 ms root:~>
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