Return-path: Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:43664 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754904Ab0KRLhg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:37:36 -0500 Received: by iwn35 with SMTP id 35so3401550iwn.19 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:37:35 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1290028078.8522.62.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> References: <1289607742.21000.23.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> <1290028078.8522.62.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> From: Julian Calaby Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:37:15 +1100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Bringing up Marvell 88W8300 To: Dan Williams Cc: Denis Kirjanov , linux-wireless , dwmw2@infradead.org, David.Woodhouse@intel.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 08:07, Dan Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 20:15 +0300, Denis Kirjanov wrote: >> > >> > I will try to load the firmware that comes with the driver source. >> > >> >> Does that sound like a plan? ?I have no time for it, but I'm happy to >> >> put the driver up somewhere that others can make use of it. ?I'll >> >> recheck the provenience of the driver but it's got MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") >> >> and GPL headers all over, including on the firmware file. ?I might have >> >> grabbed it off the Extranet but I'll check. >> >> >> Marvell firmware is OK for me and I can successfully boot in . >> I believe that we can now port driver to the new wireless stuff such >> as cfg80211. > > Yeah, that's the driver, the MSI thing or whatever linked from openwrt > forums. ?Basically, I think we should get that driver working so we know > that *something* works on these cards, and then use it and mwl8k as a > guide to writing a new mac80211 driver for the 8335. I have a card with this chipset (A Netgear WG311v3) and have a spare machine to test it in. I'm quite happy to test the driver at any stage of development. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@gmail.com Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/