Wifi Dongle On Pandora?

[hal9000]

Hello,

Are there many of you who are currently using a Wifi dongle to browse the web from a Pandora? At some point, Open Pandora was thinking about distributing a dongle to each Pandora owner, then they said Wifi is actually working, then finally it seems that it does not really work so a dongle would be really useful...

I even remember this dongle but can't find it anymore. I remember it was small and cheap, and I guess there were Pandora drivers for it. Does anyone use it now? Where is it possible to buy it?

Thanks

 

[mosschops]

Hello,

Are there many of you who are currently using a Wifi dongle to browse the web from a Pandora? At some point, Open Pandora was thinking about distributing a dongle to each Pandora owner, then they said Wifi is actually working, then finally it seems that it does not really work so a dongle would be really useful...

I even remember this dongle but can't find it anymore. I remember it was small and cheap, and I guess there were Pandora drivers for it. Does anyone use it now? Where is it possible to buy it?

Thanks

There are no relevant drivers included in the version of angstrom we use.
So unless someone does something technical you are bang out of luck.

 

[Mutilator]

I'm using the built in wifi which is fine for browsing the net, msn etc.

 

[XxionxX]

What is all this noise? -_- I thought this had been fixed. Did I miss something?

 

[skeezix]

The wifi is managable I think; on the slow side, but the deelopment of late have made it pretty usable for most or all? (guessing, probably a few still have issues). Its still hotly being investigated and options being sorted out.

But as to drivers .. none being bult right now, but its certainly possible; if wifi usb becomes a hot topic, its not extreme voodoo to build a driver.

jeff

 

[mosschops]

when i first checked there werent drivers available for the Edimax EW-7811UN. there now appear to be some available.
it is some time since ive had to get my hands dirty (what with being "management" and all) but i am going to have a go as it seems we have a useful kernel version....

if you hear a loud bang, tell my relatives they better not sell my record collection. i want to be buried with it.

 

[second exodous]

I thought the OP team was working directly with the manufacturer of the wifi chip in the Pandora to sort out the driver issues? That Edimax EW-7811UN is incredibly small, if it works I might get it. I have a Edimax wifi card in my PC as they open sourced their drivers for it and it runs on every distro I try out of the box, maybe the EW-7811UN is the same way.

 

[Pleng]

I can't help but feel the issue is a mix of hardware, qc, and software. There's clearly some issues with the driver, which appears to be getting better with each release, but all three of my units have had completely different usability with the same router. I figure that there must be something about the way the units are being produced which causes such variation.

 

[Hitnrun]

I plugged a TP-Link USB wifi stick on the Pandora, and it worked without installing anything.

 

[Blue Protoman]

when i first checked there werent drivers available for the Edimax EW-7811UN. there now appear to be some available.
it is some time since ive had to get my hands dirty (what with being "management" and all) but i am going to have a go as it seems we have a useful kernel version....

if you hear a loud bang, tell my relatives they better not sell my record collection. i want to be buried with it.

 

[milkshake]

I plugged a TP-Link USB wifi stick on the Pandora, and it worked without installing anything.

how did you know that it was the stick and not the onboard chip that was working?

 

[PhillipJ]

I plugged a TP-Link USB wifi stick on the Pandora, and it worked without installing anything.

how did you know that it was the stick and not the onboard chip that was working?

iwconfig

 

[DJWillis]

I don't have the list handy but there are some USB WiFi drivers baked into the image on the OP. Just not all that many.
Most older sticks that Linux has supported for eons should work .

They are also the versions of the drivers that shipped with 2.6.27 not backports/tailors of more recent drivers (unlike the WL1251 driver etc.).

 

[Hitnrun]

I plugged a TP-Link USB wifi stick on the Pandora, and it worked without installing anything.

how did you know that it was the stick and not the onboard chip that was working?

When I got my Pandora I had a cheap wifi router, that the Pandora couldn't connect to. I plugged the wifi usb on the Pandora, and it worked right away. Then I used some console tools to check it.

 

[milkshake]

I have a belkin wireless N stick model F5D8053 v3 its a good 2 years old do you reckon that would work? also which terminal command would I use to find out of its using that? anyone know?

 

[skeezix]

What specific product/model are known to work? (right now)?

jeff

 

[Chaser]

Not many by the looks of this http://pandorawiki.org/USB_compatibility_list#USB_WiFi_adapters

 

[zx-81]

i haven't been able to cross-compile the rtl8712 driver, everything is compiling fine, but when i tried to /sbin/insmod the module, it complains with a message "invalid format". Is there anybody here who succeed to cross-compile a driver (not to compile the driver on the pandora, but just to use the SDK on a linux PC).

 

[trevormacro]

I plugged a TP-Link USB wifi stick on the Pandora, and it worked without installing anything.

What is exactly the TP-Link USB WiFi dongle's model name please ?

 

[Hitnrun]

Right when I got the Pandora, my TPLINK WN620G worked without install anything, as far as I remember.