On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:56:00AM +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. The 8361 requires firmware to be loaded into it before it'll do anything useful. > >> 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? I'm not sure. I've never tried to get a 8361 work under Linux. -- 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
