2010/2/15 nxtcomputing <rwright%40esyscorp.com>:
> Does anyone know how to get USB wireless device working in the busybox environment? I have a TS-7500 and a usb wireless adapter that uses the realtek rtl8187 chipset.
>
> The device works just fine when I boot into the debian environment on the micro-SD card. I would like to get the same adapter working without loading the full debian distribution.
>
> In debian I found out the following:
> lsmod shows: rtl8187, mac80211, cfg80211, eeprom_93cx6, usb_storage, ehci_hdc, usbcore, sd_mod, scsi_mod
>
> modinfo rtl8187 shows: filename: /lib/modules/ 2.6.24.4/ kernel/drivers/ net/wireless/ rtl8187.ko
> depends: mac80211,eeprom_ 93cx6,usbcore
I think mac80211 depends on cfg80211.
> In
busybox, I was hoping I could use:
> navigate to files... cd /mnt/root/lib/ .../wireless/
> insmod rtl8187.ko
>
> and also load any other dependants.. . but this does not work.. i get the error: insmod: can't insert 'rtl8187.ko' : unknown symbol in module or invalid parameter
>
> Any suggestions?
>
Check the dependencies of the dependencies.
BTW, are you loading the dependencies first? insmod does not do that
automatically like modprode does.
Gonzalo