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Re: wl0084a / wl1271 understanding

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Hi,

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/16/2011 10:54 PM, Raffaele Recalcati wrote:
>>
>> I'm an embedded developer and I really want opensource development for
>> wireless, to be sure to maintain it in many kernel versions I will
>> have.
>> I'm not an wifi expert and so I can have done some mistakes here below.
>>
>> wl0084a
>> =============
>> grep -rin wl008 drivers
>> give no result on kernel 3.2-rc6.
>> What is the normal approach to take in account?
>> I have to immediately change the usb wifi dongle due to the lacking of
>> information to develop e proper driver or maybe
>> there is some possibility?
>> Here I can find Logilink drivers
>> http://www.logilink.eu/content/support/download.htm?seticlanguage=en
>> They confirm support for LINUX (kernel 2.6.18 ~ 2.6.33)
>> Looking into drivers files ... yes , they are proprietary.
>
>
> Some of the Logilink devices have Realtek chips. If this is a USB device,
> please post the output of 'lsusb'. If it is PCI, post the output of 'lspci
> -nnv' - we only need the part that describes the wireless device.
>
> Larry
>

Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
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