All,

I'm still writing the directions and working out the kinks (there are quite a few), but here's my results thus far. Huge props to haipaduser for helping me get his kernel how-to working properly. Let me know what adventuresome folks want to help me make this thing work correctly.




Cheers
-b

Great Job !
I am interested to test it but I have a very old usb dongle : netgear WG111v2
Do you it would be possible to adapt your method to a bluetooth usb dongle?

Probably, as long as the linux module is stable, do u know what module it is?

I think I will need a wext version of libhardware_legacy.so to make this seamless, but maybe not. I'm still working on it. If anyone has a dump of the system partition from 1 512M Haipad M8 that they would be willing to share, I would really appreciate it.

I'm also willing to help, but I have a different usb wifi dongle which uses a Ralink RT2870 802.11b/g/n chip.

I can compile those modules, but I think that we will need to conspire on a sufficiently abstract approach to building libhardware_legacy.so because it contains wifi.c, which is used by the android wifi hardware manager to load firmware, install modules, and so on. Google "libhardware_legacy.so wifi.c" to get an idea of what I'm talking about.

Yes, I undestand what you mean after reading this: http://blog.linuxconsulting.ro/2010/04/ ... droid.html

HUGE!
I want to help however I can.

I have a Ralink RT3070 adapter - this one with a big ext antenna:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004BA ... 00_details
Also have same chipset mini dapter - lost atm

Driver from Ralink is here - first one:
http://www.ralinktech.com/en/04_support ... php?sn=501
I'm not sure how to attach a file, or if I can, here.

I read a little about it, and while I don't understand much of it yet, the below seemed to be the most on point.
Some of what I read sounded like there may be some dependency on whether the kernel supports this chipset?
Is that correct - could it just be a no-go if the Haipad kernel doesn't support the RT3070?
Anyway - this link:
http://groups.google.com/group/android- ... 462bbd1aca:
It's a google doc that says just:
"USB WIFI RT3070 Compile Patch for ARM
USB WIFI:RT3070

Official driver :http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2[RT3070USB(RT307x)] (note this link is out of date - current link above).

Linux:2.6.24.2

MCU:ARMV6 ARM1176

Patch for Compiling for ARM

--- rt3070_test_ok/os/linux/config.mk 2009-10-30 10:55:07.000000000 +0800
+++ /home/tommy/Desktop/2009_0525_RT3070_Linux_STA_v2.1.1.0/os/linux/
config.mk 2009-05-21 11:33:56.000000000 +0800
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
# Support ATE function
HAS_ATE=n

@@ -7,12 +6,12 @@

#ifdef WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT
# Support Wpa_Supplicant
-HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y
+HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=n
#endif // WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT //

#ifdef NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT
# Support Native WpaSupplicant for Network Maganger
-HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y
+HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=n
#endif // NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT //

#Support Net interface block while Tx-Sw queue full
@@ -285,17 +284,6 @@
endif
endif

-ifeq ($(PLATFORM),ARM)
- # Linux 2.6
- EXTRA_CFLAGS := $(WFLAGS) -I$(RT28xx_DIR)/include
-endif
-
ifeq ($(PLATFORM),IXP)
EXTRA_CFLAGS := -v $(WFLAGS) -I$(RT28xx_DIR)/include -mbig-endian
endif

Using haipaduser's method, I just enabled all of the kernel modules in the wireless networking, let me know if anyone else wants something more. Please feel free to download the modules you want (below) I don't want to get in the business of generating drivers for any and every possible kernel though. That being said, if we can get a hold on the vc0882 kernel source code modifications then I'd be happy to try my hand at building cyanogenmod from source:

http://www.landsberger.com/Haipad_M8/

Thanks! Is it possible to compile a module for the Ralink RT2870 chipset?