Subject: Re: Bringing up Marvell 88W8300
From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Denis Kirjanov <kirjanov@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:07:57 -0600
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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.

Dan