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m4i iopener atmel at76c503a goodness

Monday, Aug 16. 2004  –  Category: OpenSource

like jesse, i spent a good portion of my weekend eating bbq. this may be because we were both at the same two bbqs. go figure.

other than gorging on meat of various kinds, i also spent some time resurrecting my I-Opener. i wanted to use the m4i (Midori for Iopener) distribution, but it hadn’t been updated in over a year and a half. things in the OSS world move quickly, so it’d been left behind. meanwhile i had bought a free-after-rebate Zonet ZEW2000 USB wireless 802.11b network adapter (NIC).

so, long story short, i had to rebuild a new m4i flash image that included a recompiled 2.4.20 kernel (needed uhci instead of usb-uhci), and the at76c503a driver, as well as the necessary tools to configure said driver.

in the end, i now have an Iopener that supports the newer Atmel 503/505a based USB wireless NICs. yay.

why did i do all this?

so i can have a dumb terminal/dynamic photo frame in the living room. neat, yes. practicle? eh, not really…but who cares, it was fun.