D-Link DWL-8500AP Networks Cards > Downloads Drivers, Manual and Firmware

Company

D-Link

Categories

Networks Cards

Model

D-Link DWL-8500AP

Description

802.11a/g Wireless Switch Access Point GPL Source Code

Operating System

Software

Version

1.0.1.5

Size Driver

11MB

File Name

dwl-3500ap_8500ap_gpl.rar

Observations

Below are the instructions for using the open source code for the DWL3500AP
and DWL8500AP with firmware version 1.0.1.5. The procedure below can be
used with Red Hat Enterprise WS 3.x or 4.x, or Fedora Core 2 or 3 Linux
systems. The build procedure and GPL source components are the same for
North American and International SKUs of the products.

1. Install the Devicescape toolchain and development environment. These
steps must be done as the "root" user.

1a. Install the Devicescape Wireless Infrastructure Platform (WIP) 2.2
Linux distribution and toolchain for the Atheros 531x processor. All
files will be placed in the /opt/devicescape directory.

1b. Install the additional tools needed to build the DWL3500AP and DWL8500AP
code in the LVL7 environment. This is a tarball which can be extracted
directly from within the /opt/devicescape directory.

2. Build the IPKG files

2a. Unpack the open source distribution into a separate directory
using the follwoing command:
tar xjf gpl_src.tar.bz2

2b. From the top level directory of the extracted open source code, there
exists a Makefile. Type "make" from this directory to build the open
source code. The output of this will be several *.ipk files in the
mipsf-uclibc/IPKG directory.

3. Install the IPKG files

3a. Using TFTP or FTP, transfer the desired IPKG file(s) from the directory
mipsf-uclibc/IPKG to the target. For larger IPKG files, it is probably
best to put these on the ramdisk (/tmp).

3b. From the Linux command line on the target, execute the following command
to install the IPKG file onto the target:
ipkg install .ipk

3c. Depending on the nature of the change to the IPKG, it may be necessary
to reboot the target.

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