On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 08:42:14PM -0800, Russell Senior wrote: > > If you want to try to run the radio inside the EEE Box in AP mode, I > would look first at the manpage for the hostapd daemon, and/or ask > pointed concrete questions of the linux-wireless.org people. I would > not at all be surprised to find that AP mode doesn't work reliably on > that hardware at the present time, though I might well be wrong as > well. In short, I would not expect success.
Good idea about hostapd. The available driver sources are written by engineers at Ralink (including internationalization and AP modes) and the Windoze XP version supports AP mode, so I assume the linux driver and the underlying hardware all works. A second EEE box, with "Linux EZ-OS", shows up today, and I will see how that works as an AP. I will be changing it over to my own distribution (replacing the hard drive), and I will probably just wait for a kernel upgrade to support it. The way these machines are designed, I can swap the hard drives in a minute or so (though I have to pull a security sticker and void the warranty to do so). That means I can swap the original hard drive back in, to see how they set up the drivers and the software that they use for AP mode. > Oh, one other thing, the radio inside the EEE Box is *probably* > (again, I could be wrong) not a mini-PCI, but rather a PCI Express > Mini Card: Probably true. Most of what I can tell about it is from a the windoze XP driver results (which I can post, if someone can interpret it better than I can) and from a little sticker on the side of the box written with 3 point grey lettering on a black background. The sticker is for two different AzureWave radios, BTW, so they may have two manufacturing paths. The radio is presumably socketed on the mainboard inside a metal box inside a snap-together-with-hidden-screws plastic box - fiendishly difficult to get into, so unless somebody really wants to play with it, it stays inside the EEE box. But if somebody does - well, anything to advance the geek cause! Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
