---------------------------------------- > From: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx > Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:48:17 +1100 > Subject: Re: I need a card that works reasonably easily with Debain- reccs? > To: marchywka@xxxxxxxxxxx > CC: larry.finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx; netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx; linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:29, Mike Marchywka 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.) Thanks but please don't go to any effort quite yet as this would be a learning curve for me - I can handle UART's on a Z80 and embedded systems but this may take a bit :) I would consider learning in background but it will take a while to create useful result. > > 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. Right now I'm connecting through eth0 wired to a windoze machine with a wireless card. Originally the linux machine was going to do this, as well as all the other cool stuff. > >> 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. Yeah, I've heard about the winmodems but I thought this was not one. It may in fact be easier to just use an old windoze machine to run junk like this- cygwin ssh on these things should make them useful... > > Hopefully you have one of the better supported cards. Any idea how hard it would be to write a bluetooth driver to use my blackerry storm as a mouse? I could probably handle the BB code. LOL. As far as that goes, for a tethered or even bluetooth device, are there modem drivers for phones or if I want to use a cellular connection go usb modem? After all of this, I'm tempted to try to get back my amateur radio license and see if I can connect through a VHF repeater somewhere LOL. > > 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 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222984/direct/01/-- 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
