On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:12:13PM +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. > > Just found on [1] this same wrong patch in [2] :-). > Dunno if [3] worked and from where they have stolen fw-files. > > - Sedat - > > [1] https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/7209 > [2] https://dev.openwrt.org/attachment/ticket/7209/mwl8k_fix_pci_id.patch > [3] https://dev.openwrt.org/attachment/ticket/7209/mwl8k_8361p.patch I doubt that [3] is really all that's needed to make it work. But if there's someone for whom it works, I'd like them to run some tests on mwl8k + [3] on 88w8361p. -- 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
