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VIA Wifi
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:05 pm
by 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 ?
Re: VIA Wifi
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:51 pm
by 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 :>
Re: VIA Wifi
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:23 am
by 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.
Re: VIA Wifi
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:00 am
by 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.
Re: VIA Wifi
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 4:20 pm
by 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.
Re: VIA Wifi
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:12 am
by 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.
Re: VIA Wifi
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:36 pm
by esky-sh
Thank you very much for updating us with latest news.