Hi Shahar, Reading your email again, I completely missed the point: you're not writing a driver, you're donating cards. Sorry for any confusion. If *anyone* is developing a driver, the following info, as in my previous email, could be helpful: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 00:18, Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So, as for actual code and data and stuff: > > The advice I was given when I was starting to write a driver (no > source remains, it never got to the point where it did anything > useful) was to start a new mac80211 driver from scratch as this > hardware is significantly different from the "Libertas" devices as > used in some mobile devices and the OLPC computers. Another approach > would be to update the official driver to a newer kernel and stick it > into staging, then clean it into a mac80211 driver and then push it > out into the kernel tree proper. I was advised that if I needed any > hardware info to look at the official driver. (see below) > > There is a blessed version of the firmware in the linux-firmware tree here: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=commitdiff;h=e694ee268684ec26af44a6b068203a5f44f6ed06 > > The official Marvell driver, in a source tree here: - Note that this > code only works on this exact kernel version and will need some > significant work to run with any other kernel version. > > http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/marvell-db64660-2.6.12.6.git > > And something approximating a partial driver here: > > http://git.infradead.org/mrv8k-2.6.git > > Also, the hardware is probably also significantly different to the > "TopDog" devices, so using their driver as a base is probably a bad > idea. They have an official driver in the source tree here: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git;a=blob;f=drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c;h=995695c28d5c8d66c9999126e9203392428c24c2;hb=HEAD > ) Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ .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
