VIA Wifi

[fabianpie]

Hi,
I'm trying to get the VIA Wifi dongle running. It is detected but I don't know how to configure that. Any howto available ?

[buserror]

Won't work, there is no working drivers for recent kernels.

Pick a $10 usb stick, most will work just fine, as long as they aren't VIA :>

[fabianpie]

I purchased the dongle to esky together with the board to avoid compatibility problems. Are you sure it won't work ? I found the driver listed in the kernel distributed with the board.

[esky-sh]

right now we only have wince drivers which can work on S3C2440 platform. you may find a support list for usb wifi in latest linux kernel.

[fabianpie]

I bought 4 of those to avoid loosing time with compatibility issues ... You might write a remark in your products in ebay. Being in the other side of the world it´s imposible to send you back the dongles.

[janiz]

Latest kernel with a patch contains driver source for VT6656. But I guess it's not a very stable driver. I got it working fine with the wpa_supplicant.

Download http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ ... 30.tar.bz2
Patch http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ ... 31-rc5.bz2
Patch http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/peop ... -rc5.patch

Now files are under drivers/staging. You can use Makefile to compile as seperate module from VT6656 WLAN Linux Driver Source at http://www.viaarena.com/displaydrivers. ... bCatID=176 or cut out needed stuff from the kernel config to put in the mini2440 kernel source.

[esky-sh]

Latest kernel with a patch contains driver source for VT6656. But I guess it's not a very stable driver. I got it working fine with the wpa_supplicant.

Download http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ ... 30.tar.bz2
Patch http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ ... 31-rc5.bz2
Patch http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/peop ... -rc5.patch

Now files are under drivers/staging. You can use Makefile to compile as seperate module from VT6656 WLAN Linux Driver Source at http://www.viaarena.com/displaydrivers. ... bCatID=176 or cut out needed stuff from the kernel config to put in the mini2440 kernel source.

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