--- In "Blair" <> wrote:
>
> I suppose I could got through the exercise of upgrading to the 2.6.36 kernel.
> I'm not having too much luck building drivers that haven't been incorporated
> into the mainline kernel. Make files are less that friendly to cross
> compiling. I'd rather not waste a week trying to build a driver when I
> should be able to buy a dongle that already has drivers in the mainline.
>
> --- In Petr ©tetiar <ynezz@> wrote:
> >
> > Blair <bburtan65@> [2010-11-27 20:52:49]:
> >
> > > What are people having good luck with as far as USB Wifi products? I'm
> > > inclined to look for products whose drivers are in the mainline kernel
> > > (I'm
> > > currently running 2.6.34). Ideally I'd like a product that has an
> > > external
> > > antenna jack. If you had to do something funky to get it to work, please
> > > comment to that effect. Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Look at the source[1] what's supported :-) Well, I've bought TP-LINK
> > TL-WN422G[2] recently which is based on Atheros 9271 chipset and it works
> > quite well with 2.6.36. There's no support for ath9k_htc chipsets in 2.6.34
> > yet, but you can get it working using compat-wireless[2]. If you need
> > something for 2.6.34 directly, I would look for zd1211 based dongles.
> >
> > 1. http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers
> > 2. http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc
> > 3. http://www.tp-link.com/products/productDetails.asp?pmodel=TL-WN422G
> >
> > -- ynezz
> >
>
I have used rt73 chip based wifi dongles with good results.
D-link DWL-G122 in this case
# uname -a
Linux arm26 2.6.32.11-m4 #19 PREEMPT Mon Jun 7 00:12:11 CEST 2010 armv4tl
GNU/Linux
# lsmod
Not tainted
aes_generic 32952 1 - Live 0xbf08f000
arc4 1032 2 - Live 0xbf089000
ecb 1759 2 - Live 0xbf083000
rt73usb 20388 0 - Live 0xbf078000
crc_itu_t 1081 1 rt73usb, Live 0xbf072000
rt2x00usb 6278 1 rt73usb, Live 0xbf06a000
rt2x00lib 23794 2 rt73usb,rt2x00usb, Live 0xbf05d000
firmware_class 5968 1 rt2x00lib, Live 0xbf055000
mac80211 124442 2 rt2x00usb,rt2x00lib, Live 0xbf029000
cfg80211 108857 2 rt2x00lib,mac80211, Live 0xbf000000
Though it seems to drop the power if there's little/no traffic. This may or may
not be a feature.
I probably should set up a cronjob to tickle it every now and again.
HTH
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