On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 04:43:54AM -0200, Piter PUNK wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 06:41:01PM -0800, Jason Self wrote: >>> On Dec 15, 2008, at 5:26 PM, "John W. Linville" >>> <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> I have acquired an MSI Wind equipped with this device, I have >>>> multiple variations of the vendor driver to support the hardware, and >>>> I have a datasheet the covers at least some of the hardware involved. >>>> I'm working on it... >>> Why not share your work? >> >> What I have (which is barely anything) is on the "linville" branch >> of wireless-testing... > > Hi John, > > I am using that branch on mine Positivo Mobo White (MSI Wind OEM). It > loads the rtl8180 module, the wlan0 device appears but nothing more > happens. No scans, no associations, etc. There really is nothing there to activate the device, just some infrastructure bits. > I'm really lost looking the code, and vendor code is very very different > of kernel code (at least to my eyes), isn't an easy job to "look vendor > code -> adapt code to kernel". What can I do to help? Any special > test case? Any log? Any tip to do the un-easy job? Now that we are done with the holidays, hopefully I can make some progress on this soon. Until then, there isn't much for you to do... John -- John W. Linville Linux should be at the core linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx of your literate lifestyle. -- 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
