On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:42:54AM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote: > >> >> Are you planning to or even working on support (for) 8361 devices? >> > >> > I don't have any such plans, and I don't know of anyone who does. >> >> Does 8361 require firmware support? > > What do you mean by that? > IIRC ath5k for example needs no external firmware file. > >> Does a firmware file exist (name?)? > > There's firmware for the 8361 out there, however, that version of > the firmware implements a firmware API that is different from the > one that mwl8k currently implements. > > You could add 8361 support to mwl8k, but then you'd have to go over > all the firmware command invocations in mwl8k and make sure that they > will work on the 8361 firmware that you're trying to support as well. Without having a 8361 this will be even harder to walk through. Anyway, thanks for your detailed explanations. What's the alternative for such affected users? Use ndis-wrapper? - Sedat - -- 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
