On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 16:29 +0100, Holger Schurig wrote: > > 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. > > This patch is only for the CF/PCMCIA versions of this those chips. > > There is no if_pci.c yet inside drivers/net/wireless/libertas/, if you > are certain you've a PCI card you're welcome to write one, should be > pretty easy. You can get help by looking at the other if_*.c files for > other physical interfaces. > > > > You write something > > (http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=124334594302472&w=2) that is > > cryptic to me. > > Can you elaborate? What exactly here is cryptic? > > CF/SDIO/GSPO/USB ? > 8015/8385 ? > > > > 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. > > No, if_spi.c is an indicator that this is for an SPI or GSPI. > > There's to my knowledge no such thing as a PCI-based Marvell 8385 > chip/card/whatever. I'm fairly sure 8385 is only CF and SDIO. Perhaps he means 8335 instead? That was available in both USB and PCI, but it's a softmac part that doesn't have mwl8k support yet afaik. Dan > There is, however, some support for other Marvel 8xxx PCI-based cards > in linux, see drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c. -- 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
