ARM9 & wifi & webcam

[Mariusz Koniarz]

Hello.

I just had bought dev. computer board, processor AT91SAM9260, 64MB ram,
512 MB flash & 8Gb SD card.
Now there is Debian,custom build kernel 2.6.23 witch patches - installed
by board seller.

I'm installing Gentoo now, and while waiting to complete I have a few
questions:


ndiswrapper works well under ARM9? is there any tutorial howto
cross-compile&config ndiswrapper for ARM9?
or wifi chips@USB are supported natively? what wifi chips are well
supported on ARM9?

I have ralink wifi card, works well with my laptop@Gentoo, but It will
work with ARM9?

I want connect webcam to ARM9. it is possible? what hardware are
recommended?
I have to port webcam drivers by myself, or anyone did it already?

And I have crazy idea.....

Purpose: Some onboard image processing/reading sensors--> controlling my
small robot.
ARM9 will be talking through rs232 or/and SPI to ARM7 which already
quite well control robot's hardware.


I know well ARM7 & AVR, and programming it without OS, and witch
freeRTOS (always very small memory & resources),
bud I'm just starting with embedded Linux and ARM9.


Please any advice, links to howtos....and what is useful for beginner,
e.g books or wiki?.


Mariusz Koniarz

sorry for poor English

[Bob]

Mariusz Koniarz wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I just had bought dev. computer board, processor AT91SAM9260, 64MB ram,
> 512 MB flash & 8Gb SD card.
> Now there is Debian,custom build kernel 2.6.23 witch patches - installed
> by board seller.
>
> I'm installing Gentoo now, and while waiting to complete I have a few
> questions:
>
>
> ndiswrapper works well under ARM9? is there any tutorial howto
> cross-compile&config ndiswrapper for ARM9?
> or wifi chips@USB are supported natively? what wifi chips are well
> supported on ARM9?
>
> I have ralink wifi card, works well with my laptop@Gentoo, but It will
> work with ARM9?
>
> I want connect webcam to ARM9. it is possible? what hardware are
> recommended?
> I have to port webcam drivers by myself, or anyone did it already?
>
> And I have crazy idea.....
>
> Purpose: Some onboard image processing/reading sensors--> controlling my
> small robot.
> ARM9 will be talking through rs232 or/and SPI to ARM7 which already
> quite well control robot's hardware.
>
>
> I know well ARM7 & AVR, and programming it without OS, and witch
> freeRTOS (always very small memory & resources),
> bud I'm just starting with embedded Linux and ARM9.
>
>
> Please any advice, links to howtos....and what is useful for beginner,
> e.g books or wiki?.
>
>
> Mariusz Koniarz
>
> sorry for poor English

Don't worry, your english is fine. But, please don't multi-post. Your
question was answered on comp.arch.embedded. Those reading it here will
be wasting their time answering it again. If the question is on-topic to
more than one newsgroup then you should cross-post it. If you don't know
the difference between cross-posting and multi-posting, please look it up.

Bob
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[Mariusz Koniarz]

Bob wrote:
>
> Don't worry, your english is fine. But, please don't multi-post. Your
> question was answered on comp.arch.embedded. Those reading it here
> will be wasting their time answering it again. If the question is
> on-topic to more than one newsgroup then you should cross-post it. If
> you don't know the difference between cross-posting and multi-posting,
> please look it up.
Hmm, post on comp.arch.embedded had this same title, but there I added
more questions, so it wasn't strictly multi-posting. I know how to
cross-post.

I got answer for only my first question, but what about another?

Yes, my fault - many questions in single post... sorry for that. I'll be
better next time.

So once more the most important question:

Well working, or simply working webcam@USB with ARM9
or hints what webcam drivers are easy portable.



Mariusz