Hi, So, once again, I try to get my FSG-3 up and running with Debian and I wonder how thing went with this. >From what I can tell there was a patch (referenced here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=123782768023390&w=2) to fix this but I also get indications that this is not the case since there is both a USB and miniPCI version of the 88w8385. You write something (http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=124334594302472&w=2) that is cryptic to me. Also searching the kernel gittree I found http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c;h=06a46d7b3d6c2460aecd793d2827033c7c0348f6;hb=cadeba315cc91ae1b57632e61b0cec3a4ed7088d which seems to include a driver for the miniPCI libertas 88w8385. Could you please enlighten me? Also CC:ing Tomasz Chmielewski since he expressed interest in this too. Hopefully, Tomas Dan Williams escribió: > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 19:35 +0100, tsr wrote: >> John Daiker wrote: >>> On 01/14/2009 08:47 AM, Dan Williams wrote: >>>> On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 09:52 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 01:09:12PM +0100, tsr wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> I have a FSG-3 that includes a Marvell 88w8385 card. I wonder if there >>>>>> is support for it in recent kernels. According to >>>>>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=123178916308198&w=2 (search for >>>>>> 8385) there seems to be support but I don't want to start messing >>>>>> around >>>>>> with kernels and stuff without being sure. >>>>>> >>>>> That driver is for SDIO hardware. It looks like your FSG-3 has >>>>> mini-PCI? Either way, we don't have a driver merged yet that would >>>>> cover your hardware. >>>>> >>>> Looks like it's a CB35, which is actually an 88w8335 MiniPCI card. >>>> Would be supported by the mwl8k driver ideally. I've started on trying >>>> to add support to mwl8k for the 8335 parts, but we'll need to split the >>>> driver so that we can create IO hooks for the different parts. It'll be >>>> a bit, but we'll get there. >>>> >>>> Dan >>>> >>> Very interested in the progress of 8335 support at some point. My >>> Netgear wg311v3 is sitting on my desk... waiting for some Linux bits to >>> get it running! >>> >>> I can assist in testing whenever bits become available ( officially or >>> unofficially, hint, hint! :-P ) >>> >>> Thanks for the hard work, and keep them bits a comin' >>> >>> JD >>> >> Thanks for the info, I've found something that is said to be a working >> drivers for 'my' card in this package: >> http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/maxtor/en_us/downloads/MSSII_3.1.2.src.tgz >> >> The kernel source says it's some kind of 2.6 kernel, grepping for it I >> found the highest number to be 2.6.14 so maybe it is possible to use >> something from it. >> >> AFAIK it's also GPL. > > Wow, that is the right driver... haven't seen a driver for the 8335 > before, but there it is, and it's GPL too. Got the firmware too, which > I also haven't seen separately. > > The path forward with this is to port the support for the hardware over > to mwl8k since the firmware interface is almost the same. > > That said, the only reason I chose that as the path forward was that we > couldn't make any progress with the standalone driver, and figured that > Marvell's driver would actually work where mrv8k didn't. I still think > it makes sense to use the same driver core for both but if that turns > out to be too hard, we can just do a mac80211 port for this. > > Dan > > -- 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
