On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:44:15AM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > 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.
An engineer geek friend of mine came over to do some business this afternoon, saw the pair of EEE PCs (WinXP, EZOS) on my desk, and we delayed business to do a complete teardown. I will post pictures on my wiki ( http://wiki.keithl.com ) this weekend. It uses a RT2790 PCIe mini card from AzureWave; getting to it required a complete disassembly. I also learned that besides the RP-SMA connector on the back, the card is also connected to a built-in antenna. I will pull both RF connectors from the card in the WinXP machine to make sure it is not on the air, but will leave the Linux antennas connected. The Linux EZOS runs a locked down version of KDE . The radio uses the rt2860sta driver for a 2.6.24.0-ep20 kernel; it is not configured for AP mode. Amusingly, the Linux consumes about 400MB of the 160GB disk - most of the rest of the disk is available for for user data. There is no easy way to use the GUI to launch package managers or even xterms. To get to an xterm requires "ctrl-alt-t", then a "sudo su" to get to root. Besides acting like a Linux version of "Microsoft Bob", the EZ-OS also has one user. You can't set up another user. That is probably fixable; however, I just pulled the original drive and put in my own, with a real distro. More as I learn about the machine. I will probably mount (but not boot from) the EZ-OS drive on another machine, and see what I can learn about the setup with that. If it has the AP mode drivers in there, I will report back about that. 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
