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WiFi Support on OMAP3503 EVM

Manoj R
Intellectual 390 points
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Hi,

We are working on a Mistral OMAP3503 EVM with 3530.We want WiFi support on the same.

Is wiFi supported on OMAP3503 EVM.Where can i get the drivers for the same.

If i get the drivers is it enough if i recompile the kernle with these

Thanks,

Manoj

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    TI__Mastermind 41665 points

    There are a couple of options for this, primarily a USB based WiFi solution or a SDIO based WiFi, both of which are possible though I believe USB to be more commonly implemented due to the Beagleboard use case (since typically the SD slot is being used for storage) and ease of use.

    Though there are no officially supported USB based WiFi solutions there are many out there that will work, some may even work with the out of the box kernel, though others may require obtaining a driver (often from open source communities or the manufacturer). In general for the USB case I would recommend looking through the BeagleBoard community (and in particular the google groups page) as there are many folks out there with success and failure cases of various USB WiFi adapters that could come in handy for your implementation, for example here.

    For the SDIO solution, the SDK 1.0.2 kernel supports SDIO out of the box, though I am not sure how much driver support for various SDIO WiFi chipsets is available out of the box, I have heard of support for Atheros SDIO chipsets but I have not seen it used myself,

  • 0 in reply to Bernie Thompson TI
    Genius 4565 points

    Quatech has some nice SDIO modules that just plug right in.  They are about $50.  802.11 chips are hard to get unless you make cellphones.... :(  There is a linux driver for it, in fact I think the marvell chipset it uses is in the Linux Kernel.

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    Intellectual 870 points

    Manoj

    I know that Mistral has Murata 8686 module integrated and working on Linux and WinCE for the OMAP3503 EVM. Please let me know if you need access and I will ask them to contact you.