I've been trying to get the rt2x00 drivers to compile on ppc, but have been met with some troubles. The model of the NIC is Asus WL-167G.

If you have not tried this chipset NIC, what USB wifi cards that are widely available (ie, newegg) would you reccomend? (prism based devices seem to be hard to come by)

The driver is available from: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/ind ... =Main_Page

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I tried this driver quiet often domewhere arround christmas.
It built fine but refused to work finally.
Maybe latest cvs-snapshots will work, & it maybe might be
of some help to define your essid name manually, just in case
they can't be fetched automatically.

Last time I tried (couple of weeks ago) it build fine, but couldn't be brought up. ifconfig got stuck and was grabbing all cpu cycles. Well, at least it didn't crash the system outright, so it's an improvement of sorts

I was able to get the driver to compile now, using the latest CVS snapshot, instead of the tarballs. The firmware loads, ifconfig can initialize the device.

The only thing now is I cannot seem to join a wireless network. The device does not use all cpu available, it just does nothing.

Thanks guys for your feedback, hopefully I can resolve this this weekend.

On a side note, the usb camera came in today and that worked right away. Video quality isn't the best, but it works for my purposes 8-)

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you can try with this one:
ural
i noticed this works fine on iBook.


greetz,

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the uraql may be interesting, too, but maybe it doesn't support all rtX drivers (?).
But new cvs of rtxx seems to work now:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-447178.html
So time's up to recompile :)

it's great! Tell us about your test.

We, instead, have succesfully tested an USB/WiFi adapter based on ZyDas chip (zd1211rw kernel's module) on iBook G4,PowerBook G4 and Efika too.


greetz,

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hm, my D-Link wlan stick (V:07d1 - ProdID:3c03) doesn't seem
to work. With both debug on+off i only get
"Device Descriptor not matching".
for some reason the rt73 module depends on
"4294967295" whatever that is.

interesting... I'll have to give this a try tomorrow, thanks for the input!

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new version of the driver loads, but never finds any ssids, nor will it connect to my route via autodiscovery...


Can you still buy prism2 based usb cards?

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Did you try to set your essid manually?
s.th. like
iwconfig wlan0 essid "your essid name"
could help, in case the autodetection fails.
(i also have to do so on a x86 machine with ndiswrapper with the same stick)

Yes, I have. It doesnt not connect, almost as if the radio is actually off during the duration the driver is loaded

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