Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask this, but here goes. I have recently obtained a Netgear WG311v3 card, under the misunderstanding that it was an atheros card. (though I have no idea how I managed to do that) Following some random FAQ, I have this card working reliably, for the moment, using ndiswrapper, which is more than suitable for my needs. However I yearn for more. I have discovered here: http://users.linpro.no/janl/hardware/wifi.html that this card appears to use a Marvel 88w8355 "Libertas" chipset. However I have not yet confirmed the exact chip used on my card. I believe variants of this chip, are supported on SDIO, (8385, 8686) USB (8388) and CompactFlash (8385) using the libertas driver. Annoyingly I can find no information on this chip, or anything related to it, and I have heard that Marvel has been relatively uninterested in supporting these chips on Linux. I also note that this chip appears to have been designed exclusively for the embedded market, and as such, my card is somewhat rare, which has probably contributed to the lack of any interest in a pci driver. I can also find no information on a pci version of the libertas driver, only a proposal which appeared to go nowhere due to lack of documentation. I also cannot find any information on any linux support for this card outside of using ndiswrapper. As such, I am considering reverse engineering the pci interface for this chipset, and hopefully linking it up with the existing libertas driver. I was hoping to use the ndiswrapper driver as a starting point, using it as a black box to see how it talks to the PCI card. (possibly hacking together a OS level PCI sniffer) and hopefully, what I'll see will match up to what's going on in the libertas driver for similar tasks, and then I should be able to write the necessary code (or specifications) to do this. I am also concerned about any possible legal ramifications of this reverse engineering. Is it all right for me to do this, providing that I treat the ndiswrapper driver as a black box? or am I too close to non-free code to have my code be untainted? I also must point out that this will be my first reverse engineering project of this scale, and I am inexperienced in linux drivers in general - however I see it as a good way to learn. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx -- 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
