On Saturday 30 July 2011 05:36:09 Martin Partridge wrote:
> I've checked everything and the WG511v2 is still not lighting up and it
> isn't showing as a network card, it is detected when plugged in:
>
> [13523.594828] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: pccard: card ejected from slot 0
> [13524.917077] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
> [13524.917132] pci 0000:02:00.0: [11ab:1faa] type 0 class 0x000200
> [13524.917176] pci 0000:02:00.0: reg 10: [mem 0xd0000000-0xd000ffff]
> [13524.917200] pci 0000:02:00.0: reg 14: [mem 0xc0000000-0xc000ffff]
>...
> and when the output from lspci is:
>
> 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro
> 100 (rev 09)
> 00:09.1 Serial controller: Agere Systems LT WinModem
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)
^^^^^^^
Ah, this explains it everything. You are unfortunately a victim of Netgear's stupid
naming scam. The situation is explained at http://daemonizer.de/prism54/wg511/
The upshot is: there are two WG511 v2 versions, but only the first v2 works with
p54. The second one needs a driver from marvell.
Regards,
Chr
On 07/30/2011 07:12 AM, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> On Saturday 30 July 2011 05:36:09 Martin Partridge wrote:
>> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)
> ^^^^^^^
>
> Ah, this explains it everything. You are unfortunately a victim of Netgear's stupid
> naming scam. The situation is explained at http://daemonizer.de/prism54/wg511/
> The upshot is: there are two WG511 v2 versions, but only the first v2 works with
> p54. The second one needs a driver from marvell.
The driver is called mrv8k, but it's not in the Linux tree, not even in
staging. I don't know why. Perhaps it's not functional.
Several pages recommend disabling mrv8k and using ndiswrapper with
Windows drivers. Until ndiswrapper 1.57 is released, you'll need the
current snapshot from subversion, as ndiswrapper 1.56 doesn't compile
for Linux 2.6.35 and newer.
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin