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Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:05:48 -0600
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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To: Raffaele Recalcati <lamiaposta71@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: wl0084a / wl1271 understanding
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On 12/16/2011 10:54 PM, Raffaele Recalcati wrote:
> I'm an embedded developer and I really want opensource development for
> wireless, to be sure to maintain it in many kernel versions I will
> have.
> I'm not an wifi expert and so I can have done some mistakes here below.
>
> wl0084a
> =============
> grep -rin wl008 drivers
> give no result on kernel 3.2-rc6.
> What is the normal approach to take in account?
> I have to immediately change the usb wifi dongle due to the lacking of
> information to develop e proper driver or maybe
> there is some possibility?
> Here I can find Logilink drivers
> http://www.logilink.eu/content/support/download.htm?seticlanguage=en
> They confirm support for LINUX (kernel 2.6.18 ~ 2.6.33)
> Looking into drivers files ... yes , they are proprietary.

Some of the Logilink devices have Realtek chips. If this is a USB device, please 
post the output of 'lsusb'. If it is PCI, post the output of 'lspci -nnv' - we 
only need the part that describes the wireless device.

Larry