I found a methodology for compiling your own wifi driver for wdtv from here.

http://wdtvforum.com/main/index.php?topic=1232.0

I think the methodology can be applied to playonhd as well. We just have to use different toolchains from here.

http://www.plugondevice.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10

I'm still studing it.

I downloaded a linux driver of my usb wifi dongle from ralinktech site. Mine is RT73 chipset.
I managed to successfully cross-compile the driver and get .ko file. When I tried to load the driver in POHD using the following commands


I got this response



When I did "ifconfig", there's no wifi adaptor showing. Anyone has experience on how to install own driver in POHD?

I've tried many times to compile modules for other filesystems, using kernel sources and uclibc provided by AC Ryan and Mvix toolchain and by trying different methods. Sometimes I've got the same message as you, other time there was only 'Success' with different error code and module was even loaded, but didn't behave as it should so I assume it was not OK. When compiling standard modules (using .config file provided by ACR team) size differs from modules which can be found in firmware (different toolchain and configuration).

I know that .config file from Busybox isn't the real config used for compiling Busybox included in firmware, so probably .config from kernel isn't the same as the one in firmware (kernel image size almost 1 MB smaller).

Some Russians made Ralink modules for different device, but the kernel is the same (2.6.12.6). I haven't got enough time to check it, but it might work:

http://tty.org.ru/node/34


Let me know if it works, I've got RT73 as well

Thanks a lot!! Seems like that's what I'm looking for. I'll give it a try and let you know if it works.

I tried it and it worked. I downloaded "rt73-mips-1.1.0.3-0.5.8-1kan.tar_.bz2" from the given link.
Extract it and copy the folder to a flashdrive or internal hdd. Telnet to playonhd and cd to the folder. You might want to copy the original "wpa_supplicant" and "wpa_cli" in /usr/local/bin to somewhere first before running "./install.sh" since the files are going to be replaced. That's it.

Now you can go into POHD's wireless setup menu to configure your wireless setup.
The given script made it so easy to install. I can now use my DLINK DWL-G122revC1 w/ POHD.

I hope i can now do the same with my 3G usb aircard (huawei E160). Any more Russian pointer?


EDIT: forgot to mention that you need to create some rootspace before running the script.

Not yet, but I find any, I'll let you know.

muonic, can u teach me step by step (with screenshot) how to make it? thx..

mmmm...it looks that the users of Mede8er has succeed in installing more wifi drivers on their player

see: http://www.mede8erforum.com/index.php/topic,2544.0.html
custom firmware v3.04
- get System Info about storage, hardware and network.
- Mobile Remote for mobile phones
- Web Remote for laptop..
- Custom NAS, change workgroup, create own NAS directorys, restart NAS...
- Sleep Timer, restart, shutdown player...
- Install RT73 WiFi Driver to support other Wlan-USB-Sticks!
- Autoselect Device Feature, go directly to HDD or USB after startup!
- Install new Themes, Icons and Fonts on your mede8er!

maybe an idea for the playon developers to include the same kind of driver?

the firmware doesn't work for the mini

Hello, I've tried your steps and got this as result, can u shed some light?

Thanks
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/tmp/hdd/volumes/HDD1 # sh install.sh
Remount root as RW
Copying rt3572sta.ko
cp: unable to open `/lib/modules/2.6.12.6-VENUS/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt35
72sta.ko': Permission denied
chmod: /lib/modules/2.6.12.6-VENUS/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt3572sta.ko: No
such file or directory
Copying RT2870STA.dat
File RT2870STA.dat already exists. Rewrite? (y/n) [n]:y
Fixing modules.alias
install.sh: install.sh: 45: cannot create /lib/modules/2.6.12.6-VENUS/modules.al
ias.new: Permission denied
install.sh: install.sh: 45: cannot create /lib/modules/2.6.12.6-VENUS/modules.al
ias.new: Permission denied
mv: unable to rename `/lib/modules/2.6.12.6-VENUS/modules.alias': Operation not
permitted
mv: unable to rename `/lib/modules/2.6.12.6-VENUS/modules.alias.new': No such fi
le or directory
Fixing modules.dep
install.sh: install.sh: 48: cannot create /lib/modules/2.6.12.6-VENUS/modules.de
p.new: Permission denied
install.sh: install.sh: 48: cannot create /lib/modules/2.6.12.6-VENUS/modules.de
p.new: Permission denied
mv: unable to rename `/lib/modules/2.6.12.6-VENUS/modules.dep': Operation not pe
rmitted
mv: unable to rename `/lib/modules/2.6.12.6-VENUS/modules.dep.new': No such file
or directory
Fixing modules.usbmap
install.sh: install.sh: 51: cannot create /lib/modules/2.6.12.6-VENUS/modules.us
bmap.new: Permission denied
install.sh: install.sh: 51: cannot create /lib/modules/2.6.12.6-VENUS/modules.us
bmap.new: Permission denied
mv: unable to rename `/lib/modules/2.6.12.6-VENUS/modules.usbmap': Operation not
permitted
mv: unable to rename `/lib/modules/2.6.12.6-VENUS/modules.usbmap.new': No such f
ile or directory
Copying wpa_supplicant
cp: Write Error: Invalid argument
cp: Write Error: Invalid argument
cp: unable to open `/usr/local/bin/_wpa_supplicant': Permission denied
chmod: /usr/local/bin/_wpa_supplicant: No such file or directory
Backup current hotplug
mv: unable to rename `/sbin/hotplug': Operation not permitted
Copying hotplug
cp: Write Error: Invalid argument