[Petrol]

I've gotten ahold of the driver source code for my tablet's wifi chip and it seems to be the right one for embedded/mobile devices but I'm not sure how to determine if I need any special headers since the tablet and firmware is from a third-party vendor. Could I just compile with the 2.6 kernel and swap in the new .ko?

 

[kevinf]

short answer: Linux kernel drivers are very picky, you have to have an identical kernel source to build drives.

I documented the process of a USB lan android driver here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37548841

long answer: its slightly possible to use a non-perfect source kernel, but I wouldn't count on it.. could be buggy,
http://glandium.org/blog/?p=2664

 

[Petrol]

thank you, that walkthrough is great! +rep!