On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:29, Mike Marchywka <marchywka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > This is the info for the card, > 04:06.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless [11ab:1faa] (rev 03) Oh yes, the WG311 v3 I have grappled with one of these cards in the past. There's been a couple of efforts (one on my part) to get a working open source driver off the ground, however none have (yet) borne fruit. Essentially, your only option is to either use a very specific kernel version and Marvell's official open source driver, or write your own from the bits and pieces of the others around. The Marvell driver can be found here: *note the version number*. http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/marvell-db64660-2.6.12.6.git The (non-working) remains of one of the efforts can be found here: http://git.infradead.org/mrv8k-2.6.git If you're interested, I can dig up the other bits and pieces I have and send them to you. (None of these actually work, and the mrv8k driver is the most complete.) Also, the hardware may be similar enough to the Marvell TopDog hardware supported by the in-tree mwl8k driver that it can be used as a base. Personally, my solution to the issue of there being no drivers for this card was to try (and succeed) in making another wireless card I have work. > but now that you have me going I would like to find a driver for this too, > > 04:07.0 Communication controller [0780]: Conexant Systems, Inc. HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem [14f1:2f20] You'll have to ask elsewhere for info on that, it doesn't seem to be a wireless card =) However, it does seem to be a PCI 56k Modem, which causes the big red warning lights to flash: it's likely to be a "winmodem" which means that it's a very *very* dumb card containing a trumped up DAC and ADC and the absolute minimum hardware to talk on a POTS line. In terms of drivers, this means that almost all the meat of a modem is implemented in software, so the driver needs to handle most of the conversion from data to be sent to the tones to send out on the POTS line *in software*. There are a couple of winmodem drivers floating around out there, but, as I understand it, there is no standard for these devices, so every brand (and possibly model) works differently. Hopefully you have one of the better supported cards. Good Luck! Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/ -- 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
