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. -- 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
