Comments on: Wireless card = ARM development platform

By: japroach

japroach — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:07:46 +0000

Anyone have a list of ISL38** cards?

I think the USB model mentioned above would be a tad small for this kind of work..

By: ellis

ellis — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:40:33 +0000

The thing I would like to see is GPS and storage (CF/SD/etc...). I wouldn't need to have an LCD.

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=MS-GM-03&cat=GPS (16 channels - and I bet getting the TTL off of it would be simple).

By: Tillin9

Tillin9 — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:03:53 +0000

@6, the last a tried was awhile ago (2.6.12). Maybe I just couldn't get ndiswrapper and stuff to work or maybe it wasn't fully supported then. Remember not all cards are the same. If I may, what exactly is the card you are using and what are you using to get it to work?

Also, @3 try http://www.prism54.org/newdrivers.html I didn't notice the first time around but it has a list of some cards with the isl chips.

By: archantos

archantos — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:34:15 +0000

Tillin9 ,i have got an isl3880 card working on linux, mine works just fine.

By: archantos

archantos — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:27:31 +0000

i would like to point out that u can run any arbitrary code on the arm processor, the wireless(Baseband) part is the only thing that hasnt been figured out yet so you can run and use this board as a development platform even now, the existing codebase is functionally complete enough for using the board as an amazing development platform, everything else like dma, pci, i2c and gpio have been fully reverse engineered(And have the required software support), here's the additional link i forgot to post
http://www.prism54.org/freemac.html
http://www.prism54.org/mustumbler.html

Happy Hacking :)

By: Tillin9

Tillin9 — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:35:07 +0000

The D-Link DWL-G120 is an ISL38801K according to the two I have here. I had bought them for use with an older laptop that soon after died and was replaced with a new one with internal wi-fi. Was trying to figure out what to do with them (cards don’t seem to work under Linux). I’d be willing to try this, or donate to the cause if more cards are needed.

By: tom61

tom61 — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 06:26:44 +0000

I was wondering when hacks like this would appear, but was expecting it to be a more high-end card used, like the “killer-nic”.

A list of cards containing ISL38xx chips would be usefull.

:( Unless I already have a card with the chipset, I’ll probably end up picking one up, and I already have too many ARM platforms as it is. 6 Mattle Juiceboxs, not from the overstock.com deal, but from various Wal-Marts and K-Mart. A handfull of wireless and non-wireless routers. In addition to a WinCE PDA. And that’s just the ARM stuff I have laying around.

By: Rectifier

Rectifier — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 04:39:29 +0000

Very interesting.
I might have to search around for the parts to do something like this in my free time. :)

By: Andrew H

Andrew H — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 04:38:56 +0000

First Post

Cool idea- lots of possibilities