[U-Boot] mini-pci wireless driver

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

On 22:56 Wed 12 Nov     , Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear "Lance Zhang",
> 
> In message <49EF8B38CAABF74C8FFEA1405FDFBE923CD361 at suzexch01.taihootech.com> you wrote:
> > 
> > My questions are: How can I support wireless network card on U Boot?
> 
> Correct. And there is no support for TCP/IP einther, nor do  we  have
> X11  or  Gnome,  and  there is neither Eclipse nor Firefox available,
> not even OpenOffice or iSCSI support.
> 
> To make the story short: U-Boot  is  a  boot  loader,  and  a  pretty
> powerful one, but there are certain tasks where it makes sense to use
> an OS.
> 
> > I want to implement a wlan mini-pci driver, But when I see U Boot source
> > tree, there is no codes related to wireless, do you have any suggestion
> > on how to add wireless support on U Boot? Or is there any U Boot
> > branches that have already implemented wireless extension on U boot?
> 
> Don't waste your time. Use U-Boot to boot asmall configuration of
> Linux with WLAN support included, and use this to do whjat you want to
> do.

With the Ralink chip it's not too much complicate to add wifi support.
You need to upload the firmware and manage the wifi configuration via the
firmware. After it will work as ant other ethernet driver.

Best Regards,
J.