[debian-non-standard] asus wl500gp - debian with 2.6 kernel with wifi

[Igor Videc]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Miroslav Gajdos <gajdos.mirek at gmail.com>wrote:

> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> > Miroslav Gajdos schrieb:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> is there a way to run debian on this device with wifi (broadcom)
> >> working? My biggest problem with my try is building custom kernel, i am
> >> not sure if i can manage to do it correctly.
> >
> > I will provide a new image with Debian Lenny and a new kernel which
> > should make wifi work - this will take some time, I don't have a laptop
> > right now to test the wireless; I will have it in a month or so.
> >
> > So, either wait (I will post the announcement here), or try to build it
> > yourself.
> >
> >
>
> Thanks for quick answer, i guess i will wait. Hope to hear any news soon
>
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Will the new kernel have support for 128MB of ram (patch applied or is it
neccessary for 2.6?) as we discussed earlier ?
I have one of these running with 128MB of ram and it is great.

Igor

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at
wpkg.org <http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-non-standard>>
wrote:
>* Igor Videc schrieb:
*>*
*>*
*>*
*>* > Hy all,
*>* >
*>* > I have setup a wl500gP with debian as per instructions on
*>* > http://wpkg.org/Running_Debian_on_ASUS_WL-500G_deluxe .
*>* > It runs great with a 2.5'' notebook hdd on usb2.0.
*>* > As I started adding more services I noticed that ram usage went above
*>* > 32MB and swap was getting used a lot.
*>* > If you read http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=12962 it sounds
*>* > perfectly possible to upgrade to 128MB of ram which would make wl500gP
*>* > one fantastic small debian system.
*>* > For the 128MB support it is neccessary to have this patch
*>* > http://oleg.wl500g.info/wl500gp/kernel-mvista-mem.patch (or maybe not
*>* > ?).
*>* > Is that patch already included ?
*>* > If not, can it be ?
*>* > I'm not that much into kernel compiling(not at all) and have no idea
*>* > if that is applicable to 2.6.19.2 in use at the moment(the newer
*>* > kernels are not stable?) ?
*>* > I would rather know in advance before I disassemble my router :-)
*>* >
*>*
*>*  No, this patch is not included.
*>*
*>*  But as you download it, you will see it's really trivial and should apply
*>* without problems.
*
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