Linksys WRT54G Wireless Router (MIPS)

[Smith, Gene SEA]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karel Gardas  
> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 4:23 PM
> 
> 
> 
> Have a look at:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G
> - it seems that BCM5352EKPB is just variant of BCM5352E ? 
> Anyway, even 
> broadcom does not document this chip here:
> http://www.broadcom.com/products/Wireless-LAN/802.11-Wireless-
> LAN-Solutions
> 
> I'm afraid no way for RTEMS on this hardware, except you do 
> port yourself. 
> I'm in the same situation with Linksys NSLU2 waiting 
> patiently under my 
> desk for RTEMS port, but that's about ARM/Xscale... :-)
> 
> Good luck!

Yes, I think the current binary wireless driver is the biggest question
mark. However there is a ongoing project in linux to reverse engineer
the Broadcom drivers for wireless cards,
http://linux-bcom4301.sourceforge.net/ , which indicates it applies to
the wrt54g circuit. This work would have to be ported to rtems.  I
didn't expect there to be a "drop-in" BSP for this, just a MIPS based
BSP that could be used as a reasonable starting reference like I have
done on two other RTEMS ports. Thanks for the input!

-gene