Am 30.11.2013 20:11, schrieb Adam Williamson: > Hi, folks - I hope this is the appropriate place, it's as close as I > could manage to Google myself :) I recently bought a Dell Venue 8 Pro - > a Bay Trail / Valley View-based Intel tablet - to try and get Fedora > running on it. Among the many things I'm currently fighting :), the > wireless doesn't work - no driver is loaded, no interface appears at > all. Using the Device Manager in Windows 8 I've managed to identify it > as being attached via SDIO and having the device ID 0271:0418 . It calls > itself a "Dell Wireless 1538", but by the ID and various other details > about the Windows driver it's clearly a Qualcomm/Atheros part. > > So the ath6kl-sdio driver in the kernel advertises support for: > > alias: sdio:c*v0271d0401* > alias: sdio:c*v0271d0400* > alias: sdio:c*v0271d0301* > alias: sdio:c*v0271d0300* > > Looks pretty close, but no cigar. I'm having trouble finding any more > information on the chipset than what I've outlined above. It seems most > likely that it's a variant of the AR6004 for Dell, but that's just my > best guess. > > Is there any hope of getting support for this device in ath6kl or any > other driver? Thanks! If this device continued HIF/WMI tradition, then most probably it works same way like ar5523, ath6kl-sdio or ath9k-htc do. The question is, do all WMI commands present? -- Regards, Oleksij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
