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Miguel Angel Del Campo(deleted)
09/11/2008 1:29 PM
post13261
Network USB-Wi-Fi brand issue   
Hi, i need to know witch is the best brand@ USB-Wifi adapters, that offer native support for QNX 6.4, and, how i run it 
in QNX 6.4 development platform LIVE CD.
Thank you!
Miguel, from argentina.
Robert Craig
09/11/2008 1:47 PM
post13262
RE: Network USB-Wi-Fi brand issue   
Hi Miguel:
	There are no USB WiFi adapters included in the 6.4 distribution
given problems with being able to properly support them (lack of docs
from vendors).  However, there are drivers available in source format or
as part of the Core Milestone 4 download from the Networking project on
the Foundry.
In order to run them from the live-cd, the best thing to do would be to
copy them onto a USB key and use them from there.

There are two drivers available:

devnp-ural.so
devnp-rum.so

These are straight ports of the NetBSD drivers.  You can go to the
NetBSD web site (www.netbsd.org) and click on the Manual pages to get
information about them (just type in ral or rum).

We're using the Linksys WUSB-54GC internally with the rum driver, so
that's the one that I'd recommend for you to use.

I've included x86 versions of the dll's in this post (directly from
Milestone 4) as well so that you don't have to download the full
archive.

	Robert.

-----Original Message-----
From: Miguel Angel Del Campo [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 1:29 PM
To: drivers-networking
Subject: Network USB-Wi-Fi brand issue

Hi, i need to know witch is the best brand@ USB-Wifi adapters, that
offer native support for QNX 6.4, and, how i run it in QNX 6.4
development platform LIVE CD.
Thank you!
Miguel, from argentina.

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Agoston Feher
04/09/2009 6:40 PM
post26656
Re: RE: Network USB-Wi-Fi brand issue   
> We're using the Linksys WUSB-54GC internally with the rum driver, so
> that's the one that I'd recommend for you to use.

just a small notice to those who run to the shops to buy Linksys WUSB-54GC:
the newer v2 version has a realtek chip that is not supported neither by the rum nor the ral driver
Robert Craig
04/09/2009 9:10 PM
post26661
RE: RE: Network USB-Wi-Fi brand issue   
That's one of the things that is so difficult about consumer electronics
when it comes to support.  The manufacturers often completely change the
innards with pretty much no means of being able to tell this from the
box.  We recently recommended the linksys dongle to someone who picked
one up only to find that this was marked 
"WUSB-54GCV3" and, as you've discovered, it actually contains a
different chipset.  I'm not sure if it's a realtek.  My understanding
was that it was another Ralink, but that it was a next gen RAL (2870, I
think) for which there is no driver (and it's new enough that there
doesn't appear to be a NetBSD driver available to port yet either).

In any case, if you did go out and buy one of these dongles you have my
apologies...  This has, unfortunately, happened a number of times before
with other forms of USB dongles.  We don't have enough clout with the
vendors to get notification when these changes are going to occur so
usually the only way that we find out is when someone picks up a new
device and it doesn't work.
   Robert.


-----Original Message-----
From: Agoston Feher [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 6:41 PM
To: drivers-networking
Subject: Re: RE: Network USB-Wi-Fi brand issue

> We're using the Linksys WUSB-54GC internally with the rum driver, so 
> that's the one that I'd recommend for you to use.

just a small notice to those who run to the shops to buy Linksys
WUSB-54GC:
the newer v2 version has a realtek chip that is not supported neither by
the rum nor the ral driver


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Miguel Angel Del Campo(deleted)
09/11/2008 1:58 PM
post13264
Re: Network USB-Wi-Fi brand issue   
Thank you very much for fast response my Q. Sincerely.
How can i set this driver working in live cd?
Robert Craig
09/11/2008 2:03 PM
post13268
RE: Network USB-Wi-Fi brand issue   
To start the driver, after it's been plugged into the USB slot

# mount -Tio-pkt full_path_to_driver/devnp-rum.so

This loads the driver into the stack.

To use the driver, please go to the foundry here for more information:

http://community.qnx.com/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.networking/wiki/Ho
mePage

You will find a section on 802.11 WiFi

	Robert.

-----Original Message-----
From: Miguel Angel Del Campo [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 1:58 PM
To: drivers-networking
Subject: Re: Network USB-Wi-Fi brand issue

Thank you very much for fast response my Q. Sincerely.
How can i set this driver working in live cd? 


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