On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:28 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 15:06 +1100, Julian Calaby wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 09:01 +1100, Julian Calaby wrote: > > > > Well, that explains why the "Libertas" parts supported by the current > > > > kernel require firmware and why the ndiswrapper driver I'm using > > > > doesn't. > > > > > > The 8335 still requires firmware. Lots of the windows drivers embed the > > > firmware into the .sys or .dll files, whereas on Linux embedding > > > firmware into the driver is quite frowned upon. > > > > Yeah, I discovered that the mrv8k driver still requires firmware, > > despite there being no actual file in the windows driver that I can > > point to as being the firmware image. > > It's likely embedded into the sys file, try: > > http://www.saillard.org/linux/mrv8k/files/mrv8k_extract_fw.c > > to extract the firmware from a supported driver file. At least one > versoin of WG311v3 driver seems to be supported there ("NETGEAR > WG311v3", "3.1.1.7") for extracting the firmware from. Thought as much, I've already downloaded it, and will be trying it out tonight. Thanks, (sorry for the dupe, hit the wrong button) -- 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
