[debian-non-standard] wireless on Asus wl500g Deluxe and 2.6 kernel

Tomasz Chmielewski mangoo at wpkg.org
Thu Jan 7 15:39:10 CET 2010


Frank Loeffler wrote:

> The web site
> <http://wpkg.org/Running_Debian_on_ASUS_WL-500G_deluxe#Wireless> states:
> 
> "Currently, wireless doesn't work for boards with Broadcom mini-PCI."
> 
> Now, according to openwrt
> <http://wiki.openwrt.org/oldwiki/hardware/asus>, the wl-500g Deluxe does
> not have mini-PCI, but an integrated wireless (which is true, I opened
> the box and would have switched the card a long time ago if it would be
> the case).
> 
> Now my question is: does wireless (in ap mode) work with a recent 2.6
> kernel on this station, reliably? Openwrt still recommends to use 2.4,
> but that might be outdated.
> 
> It would be nice to have contact to someone using such a device with
> working wireless using a 2.6 kernel.

As far as I know, it still doesn't work very well, at least with 2.6.30 
kernel.

Maybe newer kernels bring some improvement, but I haven't checked 
personally.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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