Using ATWINC1500 with Raspberry Pi

June 18, 2024, 00:23

e_xie

Hey everyone, I made a small HAT for the raspberry pi. It has an ATWINC1500 WiFi module. Any idea as to how to make it show up in ifconfig as a normal wifi interface? I've tried the WiFi101 libraries but ofc since they're intended for arduino, there's no makefile

oops.se

First find the documentation for the HAT.

e_xie

You mean for the wifi module?

oops.se

No the HAT !

e_xie

I made it 😆unfortunately I chose an obscure wifi module

oops.se

Ohh I missed that detail, see it now 😉 My bad.

oops.se

As I see there are no ATWINC1500 kernel driver available.

e_xie

So I gotta write my own, right?

oops.se

Adafruite have a Youtube about it 8 years ago or so

e_xie

They have 2 pretty long videos, would you know if it's the streamed one or the normal one edit - my bad they're both streamed

e_xie

Also thanks for pointing me to the video I hadn't noticed it

oops.se

I think it is the streamed, I didn't know they have a second one

e_xie

yeah they have one with like 3 people and a desktop environment showcasing code or something and one that's more of a tutorial format

e_xie

I'll just skim through both i guess

oops.se

But as it is quite old it can be a challenge as Linux has evolved a lot since then

e_xie

That's true

e_xie

It's better than me having to write drivers from scratch though