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So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) debug Profile I know I've sorta asked this question before, but in a different way. I like the fact that the modem is working in Midori, however I'd much rather use the broadband connection and unfortunatley the 2 USB nics I have don't seem to want to work with me. I priced the Linksys EtherFast 10/100 at $44 and I think that's a little too pricey for a NIC. Anyone else using another type? BTW, the 2 I have that don't seem to work as of yet are a Linksys USB100M (which I'd prefer to have working) and a Kingston KNU101TX which doesn't seem to even be recognized at all in my IA1. My other alternative is to wait for the next revision and hope for the best, but I'm a bit anxious. thanx, debug- 04-05-2002 21:10:30

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) debug Profile Also, I forgot...has anyone tried a compactflash nic? debug- 04-05-2002 21:25:20

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) Publius Profile I am using both a Aten UC-10T that I had laying around and a Xircom Portgear (only a 10er) that is currently (as of 2 days ago) selling over a TD for $10.Both are USB and I have not even tried a CF solution yet. 04-05-2002 23:24:48

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) LasersInTheJungle Profile debug, I plan on integrating the patch Rat Bastard linked here http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=MSNCompanion&Post=478 into the 2.4.18 kernel and including that with my midori image in the next day or so. This should also enable support for KAWETH as well. , Julio 04-06-2002 03:43:00

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) LasersInTheJungle Profile P.S. Nothing will work in the CF beside IDE storage devices. i.e. CF cards, MicroDrives, etc.. Julio 04-06-2002 03:44:56

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) debug Profile Thats good news!! I can't wait to d/l it and test drive...I really like your version Julio. The games are great. Just wondering what other new programs were you able to squeeze into it. I'm hoping a semi decent email client... Keep up the good work, Wish I could do it but I haven't got the skillz. debug- 04-06-2002 15:30:29

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) RatBastard Profile The Realtek patch does work. I patched against 2.4.18 and it works great. I now have the linksys usb 100M working. I'd release it to the world, but the damn 802.11b stuff is on the fritz now. I suppose that if anyone wants just the kernel and modules, I could email them, but I'm not going to host a midori image 'till I get some of this other stuff fixed. 04-07-2002 19:24:30

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) LasersInTheJungle Profile I'd be happy if you sent me your kernel .config file. Along with a list of patches you used. ia1-dev[at]spamhole.bizland.com Thanks, Julio 04-07-2002 19:36:06

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) Throck Profile Maybe this deserves a new thread, but has anyone tried a USB Wireless NIC? Ive heard a lot of talk, but nothing definite. -BcPuX 04-19-2002 01:16:26

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) Jasoni40 Profile RatBastard Did you ever get a good img file or mordi with the usb100m? is there anyway I can get a copy of it? you can contact me directly at jason [at] i40 [dot] com. -Jason 06-01-2002 09:37:00

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) Wiz_ Profile I could sure use a midori image that supports a Linksys USB100TX version B1. 06-01-2002 20:48:36

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) shadowsunrise Profile RatBastard- I'm going to try the patch for the USB100M, but I just hope it doesn't require a development desktop... Anywho, I'm sure a lot of people would be interested in an img with USB100M support. If mine works I'm going to submit it to http://www.IA1Hacking.com . I will be (hopefully) applying it against wildwildwes' Midori_3.img from the same site. What image did you apply the patch against? I think a lot of people will be going for these USB100M's due to their nice form factor and/or because they don't know the difference between it and the USB100TX also from LinkSys. Anywho, thanks for the patch link, wish me luck. --[::]-- 07-26-2002 20:24:49

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) qDot Profile | Email What's the diff between the TX100 and TX100B1? My TX100 works fine OOB on my IA-1 midori... 07-27-2002 09:27:59

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 1 times) RatBastard Profile Shadow, The Realtek patch isn't against an "image" per se; it's only in the kernel. I just made a kernel based on 2.4.18 with both the pre-emptible and the realtek patches. Works great. It's in the jukebox image I mentioned, as well. Anybody who wants to use it either needs to make their own kernel, or use one of the images with the newer kernel. I can provide my kernel/config for download, if people are interested. By the way, there have been some USB nics at Tiger Direct for $5 now and then. I got a couple of 3com ones, which are chiefly nice because they have really short USB cables. There is a Zoom one now, but I don't know what kind of chipset that has. We can probably find out at linux-usb.org. 07-28-2002 21:50:16

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) shadowsunrise Profile Yeah, as soon as i dug a bit deeper I realized it wasn't patching an existing setup but rebuilding the whole thing (sort'a)... i've been away from linux too long, got used to winblowz updates/service packs and such. I'm tempted by your jukebox setup, just so I can use my USB100M... but I really like wes' midori_3.img as is for what I want to use my IA1 for (mostly intranet web and rdesktop to my winblowz machines). If I get impatient, I'll probably use your jukebox image until I have a chance to make my own version based off of wes' v3 midori image. Anyways, How hard would it be to just use wes' devkit off http://www.ia1hacking.com , add the rtl8150 stuff and get up and running (no other modifications)? I'm trying to figure out if this is a few hour or all weekend task ahead of me. Also, just want to say thanks to everybody out there building images and supporting the free exchange of information, especially RatBastard, qDot and wwwes. =D --[::]-- 07-31-2002 08:01:19

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) RatBastard Profile It's quite easy. You do need to do it from a linux box, though. Basically, you expand the build kit, modify what's inside of it, run one script, wait 5 minutes, and you've got an image. I'll upload my kernel and config to my ia1 page. There are more lucid instructions associated with the build kit (not sure if it's inside, but maybe it's at ia1hacking.com). 07-31-2002 16:22:03

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) shadowsunrise Profile RatBastard- Compiling a kernal is no biggie to me, i'm a software engineer, so if it was then i'd be in trouble. Having the time to get linux up and running on a desktop however is another issue. When i do get around to it though, what flavors of linux would you recommend for build environment? The midori home page says that the latest kernel should compile under RH7.1, but does that apply to build kits based on wildwes' midori v3? Also, in the mean time i was going to give your jukebox image a whirl (in the hopes that it would still have rdesktop or vncviewer) but the images i downloaded off your site didn't seem to work. When i tried dolly'ing them over it said there was a problem with the image file. Any ideas? Thanks. 08-02-2002 07:53:24

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) RatBastard Profile I use Debian. I don't think it matters so much, especially with the kernel. If you want to recompile all of midori, then I'm pretty sure it matters. If all you need is the realtek support, why bother starting over? Why not just use my kernel? As far as the images, well, I specifically tried them after I uploaded them. If you're using the bzipped one, make sure you unzip it. That's all I can think of. My image does not have rdesktop, but I think I left vnc in there. Has anyone else had a problem like this? 08-05-2002 11:11:56

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) shadowsunrise Profile I'm using dolly.exe to clone the image over... do i need to dd or something? could that be it? i know my CF isn't bad because i used it before and after to copy over wildwes' midori_3... i would use your image for now if i could just get it to copy over to my internal CF, but no luck yet. 08-05-2002 14:43:19

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) RatBastard Profile The process should be IDENTICAL to Wes' image. I'll download my image and try it again this afternoon. I do use 'dd', but that shouldn't be the problem. Basically, I get the image on a card, stick the card in the IA1 and dd the external onto the internal. Make sure that you limit it to the right number of blocks (31296 I think) if dolly requires that sort of thing. 08-06-2002 09:17:26

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) jcassar Profile Hello, just bought a linksys USB100M and found out that the adaptor didn't show up. An ifconfig -a only returned the lo interface. dmesg boot log show the following message: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0xbda/0x8150) is not claimed by any active driver. I am running the last midori_3.img. I did also rebuild the image using the build kit available at ia1hacking. Does anyone have an idea why I cannot bring this adaptor up. /sbin/network start failed too. The adaptor is correctly configured using the web interface Network config. Any help will be greadly appreciated. Thanks, JP 11-14-2002 20:24:56

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) shadowsunrise Profile Hello. I'm back. I've gotten back into linux now (RH7.3 and RH8) and decided it was time to take another crack at this stuff. I followed the tutorial from http://www.ia1hacking.com and everything looked good. However, since the patch for USB100M support is a kernel patch, i of course had to recompile the kernel. It seemed to work, however i had to sacrifice sound support (I get an error if I include the sound support, a little digging mentioned something about my version of binutils being too new, so i grabbed the binutils from \midori.transmeta.com and promptly hosed my binutils and now i can't build anything). Anyways, i'm probably going to just reinstall redhat and give up on using it for building midori. I have the debian woody on a 7CD set, does anybody know if this would work as a build environment for midori? If so, i think i'll give it a whirl using VMWare. Anybody have some hints/tips? dont panic 12-04-2002 11:57:54

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) shadowsunrise Profile Well, I couldn't compile midori under RH7.3 or RH8.0, and i just didn't like how debian felt, so I got RH7.1 and it seems to have compiled fine. So, now I have an image with the rtl8150.patch applied to the kernel which should allow me to use the USB100M, right? Well, I don't know how to pause/review the boot messages, but it looked like it found it fine (in the 2 seconds i had to read it), but once its up and running, i'm also getting just 'lo' from ifconfig -a Also, when i try to 'ifup eth0' i get 'SIOCADDRT: No such device'... I have a valid config using DHCP setup at /config/net/eth0, and /config/network lists "eth0" as the GATEWAYDEV... I really have no clue as to what's going wrong here... anybody got an idea? dont panic 01-01-2003 15:23:09

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) shadowsunrise Profile Weeeeeeee! I'm posting this using my IA1 connected to my LAN using the USB100M! I had a hell of a time getting the rtl8150 patch to work. For some reason 'make xconfig' just wasn't showing it, neither was 'make config' so i just went and manually hacked linux/.config into submission. I was then able to build a new bzImage just fine under RH7.1. So, now I have a .tar.gz with the patched kernel source, the patch, the good .config, as well as the midori_3 tree with the new midori_3/kernel/bzImage copied over. Anybody interested in my kernel/midori source or just the finished image, let me know. dont panic 01-01-2003 21:28:23

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) bob94025 Profile Why bother patching rtl8150 into a 2.4.18 kernel when it's included in the 2.4.20 kernel? I built an image with the 2.4.20 kernel and included the rtl8150 module (as well as kaweth and pegasus). I've also got prism-chipset 802.11b working nicely with the linux wlan-ng drivers. (I'm listening to steaming mp3s on my IA right now via my linksys wusb11, v2.5 adapter.) I also rebuilt the modem driver for this new kernel, and it seems to work (although I just tested dialing- I haven't really used the modem). I even rebuilt mpg123 to fix a glitch when using the -b option (buffering- useful for playing mp3's over unreliabled/congested networks), and it now takes better advantage of the K6-2's 3d-now, so cpu usage is much lower when playing mp3's. The image is based on a combination of Sevenn's "workstation.img" and wildwildwes' "midori_3.img". It includes all the stuff that I find useful, but none of the game stuff from midori_3.img. You can get it from http://m4i.homeip.net/ . If anyone is interested in my build kit or sources, let me know and I'll post those as well. cheers, bob 01-02-2003 01:24:09

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) shadowsunrise Profile Actually, afaik i'm using the 2.4.6 kernel (from midori.transmeta.com), not sure though. It may've had rtl8150, but needed a patch to run my LinkSys USB100M. Anywho, it works great now, and if it ain't broke, don't break it. I also like using the kernel off midori.transmeta.com because I know it will behave well. Anyways... I made a copy for my coworker and they want wireless now. So, I'm not sure if what I'm using will work or not. Bob, any chance you could hook me up with your bzImage? And a list of WLAN NICs that you know to work with it? Thanks much. -ben dont panic 01-13-2003 20:39:55

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) RatBastard Profile bob94025, I'm quite interested in your new kernel, and also in your optimized mpg123. I've been using my own variant of the m4i/wwwes image here: http://dalchemy.com/lab/ia1/ I'd love to upgrade the kernel. I'm assuming you've got the pre-empt flag turned on? 01-14-2003 11:07:23

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) shadowsunrise Profile RatBastard- What wireless nic's are supported by your kernel? And could I get a copy of your bzImage? =D -Ben dont panic 01-14-2003 18:20:21

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) RatBastard Profile I don't know what wireless nics are supported; I've only tried a Linksys (prism) one. The bzimage is on that URL... 01-15-2003 09:40:05

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) gduquett Profile I have been watching the following URLs to see which USB devices work with WLAN. http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~pliszka/hints/wireless.html I also have a Microsoft MN510 (prism2.5) on its way (delivered Monday hopefully) so I will test and update the forum. I have the m4ia-2.3pre1 release installed and working great (just no Internet access yet). 01-15-2003 10:55:05

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) bob94025 Profile The kernel is just a stock 2.4.20, except for one simple patch. Of all the patches that Midori needed for the 2.4.6 kernel, only the "addpart" patch (appended below) is needed for recent kernels. I've added a link to my kernel config to my website (http://m4i.homeip.net ). As for which wlan devices- only those based on the prism chipsets will work with my images. The above site seems like a good one for finding prism-based USB wlan devices. RatBastard- what is the "pre-empt flag" and why should it be set? cheers, bob *** begin patch *** date: 2000/08/15 01:34:47; author: cfl Fix to get packcramfs working without loopback diff -urN linux_orig/drivers/block/blkpg.c linux/drivers/block/blkpg.c --- linux_orig/drivers/block/blkpg.c Thu Oct 26 23:35:47 2000 +++ linux/drivers/block/blkpg.c Thu Apr 5 20:08:14 2001 @@ -110,12 +110,6 @@ if (g->part[minor].nr_sects != 0) return -EBUSY; - /* overlap? */ - for (i=first_minor+1; i<end_minor; i++) - if (!(pstart+plength <= g->part.start_sect || - pstart >= g->part.start_sect + g->part.nr_sects)) - return -EBUSY; - /* all seems OK */ g->part[minor].start_sect = pstart; g->part[minor].nr_sects = plength; *** end patch *** 01-18-2003 23:49:04

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) RatBastard Profile The pre-emptible kernel is a way that user-space programs can sortof grab higher priority for certain things than kernel space code. In practice, it makes things like X seem snappier. It used to be a patch, and I think now it's rolled in: http://www.tech9.net/rml/linux/ I made a kernel like yours, but based on 2.4.18. I am chiefly interested in the new wlan drivers, but I might as well upgrade the kernel itself, too. 01-20-2003 10:07:28

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) bob94025 Profile Thanks for the pre-empt info. I hadn't applied the patch, so it's not part of my current kernel. But I might try the patch against 2.4 (or maybe switch to a 2.5 kernel). I too wanted the new wlan drivers. I use linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre7 in my image. This driver works great with my Linksys WUSB11 v2.5- solid connections with no dropouts. bob 01-20-2003 23:48:12

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) gduquett Profile I tried the Microsoft MN510 with the m4ia-2.3pre1 and it has 'sorta' worked. It seems to recognize the NIC - but I am unable to use it to browse the web (or almost anything else). Using the '/usr/bin/wlanstat' command provides varying results (i.e. it seems to be getting something) - but I am still not able to get DHCP, DNS, etc. Have not had any time to sit down and try to figure out if I have something set wrong or what... 01-27-2003 07:52:18

RE:So what type of USB NICs work well in Midori (modified 0 times) gduquett Profile Anyone able to get WEP working with a USB nic using the m4ia-2.3pre1 image or any others? I get solid connections without WEP but no connection once I use either 64 or 128bit WEP... Thanks. 01-28-2003 20:51:39

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