Hi!

I have a broadcom based router, so I can't use the 2.6 kernel and have WiFi working.

But could I use 2.6 and use an external USB WiFi adapter in AP mode (plus WDS) ?
Has anyone done it ? Is there a list of supported WiFi adapters ?

Regards,
David

(Last edited by xerces8 on 14 Apr 2008, 10:34)

I've tested a rt73usb based wireless adapter. Should work.

Of course you can boot a 2.6 Kernel but Broadcom wireless will still not work good or does not work at all.

Does rt73usb support AP Mode?
Last time I tried (some months ago) rt73 supported only managed and ad-hoc modes.

I too have TRENDnet TEW-424UB. The driver in WIN XP is sis163u.sys.
What to check and how to try it on my Asus with 2.4 kernel (broadcom)
When i connect it to Asus, i see

hub.c: new USB device 01:03.2-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x457/0x163) is not claimed by any active driver.

Thanks

i googled and found that no linux driver for sis163u and many people installed it with ndiswrapper... so lets forget it on OPENWRT

Thanks

(Last edited by baba2s on 14 Apr 2008, 17:42)

Pretty much.  You *might* be able to somehow convert the binary over to mips somehow with qemu or another tool, but probably not.

You really need to get a wireless device with a supported chipset.

There are USB->pcmcia converters, but they're hard to find (and at least $100) http://www.arstech.com/item-USB-2-0-to- … cmcia.html

Might as well get an ALIX board at that price.

After more googling i found that wireless driver ZD1211 supports sis163u, which is already available in package directory. I decided to try to compile it for Kamikaze 2.4.
Here is the error i am getting... anyone please guide me .. thx

ubuntu@ubuntu:~/mipsel$ make package/zd1211-compile V=99
make -C package zd1211-compile
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ubuntu/mipsel/package'
make -j1 -C zd1211 compile
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ubuntu/mipsel/package/zd1211'
gzip -dc /home/ubuntu/mipsel/dl/zd1211-driver-r85.tgz | /bin/tar -C /home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/zd1211-driver-r85/.. -xf -

Applying ./patches/100-linux_2.6.22.patch using plaintext:
patching file src/zd1205.c
touch /home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/zd1211-driver-r85/.prepared_5763bc2ace9ce1fd2faa6fd21878c00e
(cd /home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/zd1211-driver-r85/./; if [ -x ./configure ]; then cp -fpR /home/ubuntu/mipsel/scripts/config.{guess,sub} /home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/zd1211-driver-r85// && AR=mipsel-linux-uclibc-ar AS="mipsel-linux-uclibc-gcc -c -Os -pipe -mips32 -mtune=mips32 -funit-at-a-time" LD=mipsel-linux-uclibc-ld NM=mipsel-linux-uclibc-nm CC="mipsel-linux-uclibc-gcc" GCC="mipsel-linux-uclibc-gcc" CXX=mipsel-linux-uclibc-g++ RANLIB=mipsel-linux-uclibc-ranlib STRIP=mipsel-linux-uclibc-strip OBJCOPY=mipsel-linux-uclibc-objcopy OBJDUMP=mipsel-linux-uclibc-objdump SIZE=mipsel-linux-uclibc-size CFLAGS="-Os -pipe -mips32 -mtune=mips32 -funit-at-a-time -I/home/ubuntu/mipsel/staging_dir_mipsel/usr/include -I/home/ubuntu/mipsel/staging_dir_mipsel/include" CXXFLAGS="-Os -pipe -mips32 -mtune=mips32 -funit-at-a-time -I/home/ubuntu/mipsel/staging_dir_mipsel/usr/include -I/home/ubuntu/mipsel/staging_dir_mipsel/include" CPPFLAGS="-I/home/ubuntu/mipsel/staging_dir_mipsel/usr/include -I/home/ubuntu/mipsel/staging_dir_mipsel/include -I/home/ubuntu/mipsel/staging_dir_mipsel/usr/include -I/home/ubuntu/mipsel/staging_dir_mipsel/include" LDFLAGS="-L/home/ubuntu/mipsel/staging_dir_mipsel/usr/lib -L/home/ubuntu/mipsel/staging_dir_mipsel/lib" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/home/ubuntu/mipsel/staging_dir_mipsel/usr/lib/pkgconfig" PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR="/home/ubuntu/mipsel/staging_dir_mipsel/usr/lib/pkgconfig"  ./configure --target=mipsel-linux --host=mipsel-linux --build=i486-linux-gnu --program-prefix="" --program-suffix="" --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --libexecdir=/usr/lib --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/man --infodir=/usr/info --disable-nls ; fi; )
touch /home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/zd1211-driver-r85/.configured
make -C /home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/zd1211-driver-r85 ARCH="mips" CROSS_COMPILE="mipsel-linux-uclibc-" CC="mipsel-linux-uclibc-gcc" CPP="mipsel-linux-uclibc-gcc" LD="mipsel-linux-uclibc-ld" KERNELVERSION="2.4" KERNEL_SOURCE="/home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/linux-2.4.34" KDIR="/home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/linux-2.4.34" all
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/zd1211-driver-r85'
/home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/linux-2.4.34
/home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/zd1211-driver-r85
-I/home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/zd1211-driver-r85/src/include -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -pipe -DZDCONF_WE_STAT_SUPPORT=1 -DHOST_IF_USB -DAMAC -DGCCK -DOFDM -DHOSTAPD_SUPPORT -DUSE_EP4_SET_REG -DDOWNLOADFIRMWARE -DfTX_GAIN_OFDM=0 -DfNEW_CODE_MAP=1 -DfWRITE_WORD_REG=1 -DfREAD_MUL_REG=1 -DENHANCE_RX=1 -DZD1211
src/zd1205.o src/zdasocsvc.o src/zdauthreq.o src/zdauthrsp.o src/zdmmrx.o src/zdshared.o src/zdhci.o src/zdglobal.o src/zdencrypt.o src/zdpmfilter.o src/zdpsmon.o src/zdsynch.o src/zdbuf.o src/zd1205_proc.o src/zdhw.o src/zddebug.o src/zdtkipseed.o src/zdmic.o src/zdusb.o src/zd1211.o
make -C /home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/linux-2.4.34 SUBDIRS=/home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/zd1211-driver-r85 modules
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/linux-2.4.34'
make -C  /home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/zd1211-driver-r85 CFLAGS="-D__KERNEL__ -I/home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/linux-2.4.34/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -Os -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fno-builtin-sprintf -fomit-frame-pointer   -funit-at-a-time -I /home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/linux-2.4.34/include/asm/gcc -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -pipe  -finline-limit=100000 -mabi=32 -march=mips32 -Wa,-32 -Wa,-march=mips32 -Wa,-mips32 -Wa,--trap -DMODULE -mlong-calls -fno-common" MAKING_MODULES=1 modules
make[5]: Entering directory `/home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/zd1211-driver-r85'
make[5]: *** No rule to make target `modules'.  Stop.
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/zd1211-driver-r85'
make[4]: *** [_mod_/home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/zd1211-driver-r85] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/linux-2.4.34'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/zd1211-driver-r85'
make[2]: *** [/home/ubuntu/mipsel/build_mipsel/linux-2.4-brcm/zd1211-driver-r85/.built] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/mipsel/package/zd1211'
make[1]: *** [zd1211-compile] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/mipsel/package'
make: *** [package/zd1211-compile] Error 2
ubuntu@ubuntu:~/mipsel$

Thx

Depends on Kernel 2.6 (line 205 @ https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/p … s.mk#L205)

OK, thanks Forum2008.

Hello Forum2008,

To test my USB wifi TRENDnet TEW-424UB (wireless driver ZD1211), i flash my Asus with Kamikaze 2.6, installed all drivers. Here is my..
dmesg:
Linux version 2.6.22 (nbd@ds10) (gcc version 4.1.2) #2 Sun Sep 30 20:38:47 CEST 2007
CPU revision is: 00029006
ssb: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (cc 0x800, rev 0x03, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 1 found: Fast Ethernet (cc 0x806, rev 0x06, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 2 found: Fast Ethernet (cc 0x806, rev 0x06, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 3 found: USB 1.1 Hostdev (cc 0x808, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 4 found: PCI (cc 0x804, rev 0x08, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 5 found: MIPS 3302 (cc 0x816, rev 0x00, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 6 found: V90 (cc 0x807, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 7 found: IPSEC (cc 0x80B, rev 0x00, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 8 found: MEMC SDRAM (cc 0x80F, rev 0x00, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Initializing MIPS core...
ssb: set_irq: core 0x0806, irq 2 => 2
ssb: set_irq: core 0x0806, irq 3 => 3
ssb: set_irq: core 0x0804, irq 0 => 4
ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found at address 0x18000000
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
On node 0 totalpages: 8192
  Normal zone: 64 pages used for memmap
  Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
  Normal zone: 8128 pages, LIFO batch:0
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 8128
Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock2 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 init=/etc/preinit noinitrd console=ttyS0,115200
Primary instruction cache 16kB, physically tagged, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
Primary data cache 16kB, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
Synthesized TLB refill handler (20 instructions).
Synthesized TLB load handler fastpath (32 instructions).
Synthesized TLB store handler fastpath (31 instructions).
Synthesized TLB modify handler fastpath (30 instructions).
PID hash table entries: 128 (order: 7, 512 bytes)
Using 132.000 MHz high precision timer.
Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Memory: 29872k/32768k available (2030k kernel code, 2896k reserved, 297k data, 120k init, 0k highmem)
Calibrating delay loop... 263.16 BogoMIPS (lpj=526336)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ssb: PCIcore in host mode found
registering PCI controller with io_map_base unset
PCI: fixing up bridge
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:00.0 to 64
PCI: Fixing up device 0000:00:00.0
Time: MIPS clocksource has been installed.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
TCP reno registered
squashfs: version 3.0 (2006/03/15) Phillip Lougher
Registering mini_fo version $Id$
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered (default)
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 2 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
b44.c:v1.01 (Jun 16, 2006)
eth0: Broadcom 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:18:f3:6b:3b:82
eth1: Broadcom 10/100BaseT Ethernet 40:10:18:00:00:2d
flash init: 0x1c000000 0x02000000
Physically mapped flash: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 16-bit bank
Physically mapped flash: Found an alias at 0x800000 for the chip at 0x0
Physically mapped flash: Found an alias at 0x1000000 for the chip at 0x0
Physically mapped flash: Found an alias at 0x1800000 for the chip at 0x0
Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table at 0x0040
Physically mapped flash: CFI does not contain boot bank location. Assuming top.
number of CFI chips: 1
cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness.
Flash device: 0x800000 at 0x1fc00000
bootloader size: 262144
Creating 4 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "cfe"
0x00040000-0x007f0000 : "linux"
0x000f8000-0x007f0000 : "rootfs"
mtd: partition "rootfs" doesn't start on an erase block boundary -- force read-only
0x00200000-0x007f0000 : "rootfs_data"
0x007f0000-0x00800000 : "nvram"
nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (256 buckets, 2048 max)
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
TCP vegas registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5
diag: Detected 'ASUS WL-500g Premium'
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
Probing device eth0: found!
mini_fo: using base directory: /
mini_fo: using storage directory: /jffs
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
device eth0.0 entered promiscuous mode
eth0.0: dev_set_promiscuity(master, 1)
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
eth0.0: add 01:00:5e:00:00:01 mcast address to master interface
br-lan: port 1(eth0.0) entering learning state
br-lan: topology change detected, propagating
br-lan: port 1(eth0.0) entering forwarding state
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'CCMP'
eth0.1: add 01:00:5e:00:00:01 mcast address to master interface
BFL_ENETADM not set in boardflags. Use force=1 to ignore.
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
wlan: 0.8.4.2 (svn r2568)
ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
ath_hal: 0.9.30.13 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5416, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413, RF2133, REGOPS_FUNC)
ath_rate_minstrel: Minstrel automatic rate control algorithm 1.2 (svn r2568)
ath_rate_minstrel: look around rate set to 10%
ath_rate_minstrel: EWMA rolloff level set to 75%
ath_rate_minstrel: max segment size in the mrr set to 6000 us
wlan: mac acl policy registered
ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (svn r2568)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:03.2 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: Fixing up device 0000:00:03.2
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.2: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.2: irq 6, io mem 0x40000000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usbcore: registered new interface driver zd1211rw
SCSI subsystem initialized
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
zd1211 - http://zd1211.ath.cx/ - SVN_TRUNK
Based on www.zydas.com.tw driver version 2.5.0.0
usbcore: registered new interface driver zd1211
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Myson    CS8819A2-108  0  1.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 121856 512-byte hardware sectors (62 MB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 121856 512-byte hardware sectors (62 MB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
usb-storage: device scan complete
root@OpenWrt:~#

root@OpenWrt:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P 
zd1211                291488  0
usb_storage            27664  1
sd_mod                 18416  2
scsi_mod               71968  2 usb_storage,sd_mod
zd1211rw               42128  0
ehci_hcd               28016  0
ath_pci                94384  0
wlan_xauth               480  0
wlan_wep                4000  0
wlan_tkip               9664  0
wlan_ccmp               5408  0
wlan_acl                1888  0
ath_rate_minstrel       7840  0
ath_hal               271168  2 ath_pci,ath_rate_minstrel
wlan_scan_sta           8736  0
wlan_scan_ap            2624  0
wlan                  146400  9 ath_pci,wlan_xauth,wlan_wep,wlan_tkip,wlan_ccmp,wlan_acl,ath_rate_minstrel,wlan_scan_sta,wlan_scan_ap
ppp_async               9664  0
ppp_generic            20000  1 ppp_async
slhc                    5408  1 ppp_generic
crc_ccitt               1024  1 ppp_async
vfat                    8512  1
fat                    42448  1 vfat
nls_utf8                 896  0
nls_iso8859_15          3392  0
nls_iso8859_1           2880  1
nls_cp850               3648  0
nls_cp437               4416  1
usbcore               102032  5 zd1211,usb_storage,zd1211rw,ehci_hcd
nls_base                4416  7 vfat,fat,nls_utf8,nls_iso8859_15,nls_iso8859_1,nls_cp850,nls_cp437
ieee80211softmac       23936  1 zd1211rw
ieee80211_crypt_ccmp     4992  0
ieee80211_crypt_tkip     8512  0
ieee80211_crypt_wep     2720  0
ieee80211              27040  2 zd1211rw,ieee80211softmac
ieee80211_crypt         2496  4 ieee80211_crypt_ccmp,ieee80211_crypt_tkip,ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211
switch_robo             4048  0
switch_core             5056  1 switch_robo
diag                    8272  0
root@OpenWrt:~#

Still i am not making it work ??

root@OpenWrt:~# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

eth0.0    no wireless extensions.

eth0.1    no wireless extensions.

br-lan    no wireless extensions.

root@OpenWrt:~#

Any suggestions please...?  How to enable wifi and what should be in my /etc/config/wireless  ?

Thanks

I have zd1211b dongle and wgt634u . Im using zd1211b.ko driver and it work in the ap mode... but it fails at heavy traffic (high transfer rate)
If u want dual radio solution on wireless client ,use zydas dongle in client mode .It seems working well on my connection (1024/256)
i will try rt73 usb dongle as i have it on my other system

Just ran across these USB->PCMCIA dongles:

http://www.hacker-technology.com/3387/157597.html
http://www.hacker-technology.com/3387/162891.html
http://www.hacker-technology.com/175366.html

Not sure if they'd work for a wireless card, but they're another option.

is there any progress on this ?
do we have zd1211rw wireless support in openwrt?

I have installed Openwrt x86 on a wince terminal with two usb ports. Openwrt works fine on this, but now i want to get my USB wireless card configured. So i installed the required packages, upon rebooting Openwrt detects the card and install it as zd1211rw. But now how do i configure this under /etc/config/wireless and  /etc/config/network?

Thanks and regards,
Adarsh

(Last edited by ak007 on 18 Jul 2008, 23:46)