From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@googlemail.com>
Cc: tsr <tsr.offentlig@tsr.se>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, mangoo@wpkg.org
Subject: Re: Marvell 88w8385 Support
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:34:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1257366885.15872.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3eioe48c0.wl%holgerschurig@googlemail.com>
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 16:29 +0100, Holger Schurig wrote:
> > From what I can tell there was a patch (referenced here:
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=123782768023390&w=2) to fix this
> > but I also get indications that this is not the case since there is both
> > a USB and miniPCI version of the 88w8385.
>
> This patch is only for the CF/PCMCIA versions of this those chips.
>
> There is no if_pci.c yet inside drivers/net/wireless/libertas/, if you
> are certain you've a PCI card you're welcome to write one, should be
> pretty easy. You can get help by looking at the other if_*.c files for
> other physical interfaces.
>
>
> > You write something
> > (http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=124334594302472&w=2) that is
> > cryptic to me.
>
> Can you elaborate? What exactly here is cryptic?
>
> CF/SDIO/GSPO/USB ?
> 8015/8385 ?
>
>
> > Also searching the kernel gittree I found
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c;h=06a46d7b3d6c2460aecd793d2827033c7c0348f6;hb=cadeba315cc91ae1b57632e61b0cec3a4ed7088d
> > which seems to include a driver for the miniPCI libertas 88w8385.
>
> No, if_spi.c is an indicator that this is for an SPI or GSPI.
>
> There's to my knowledge no such thing as a PCI-based Marvell 8385
> chip/card/whatever.
I'm fairly sure 8385 is only CF and SDIO.
Perhaps he means 8335 instead? That was available in both USB and PCI,
but it's a softmac part that doesn't have mwl8k support yet afaik.
Dan
> There is, however, some support for other Marvel 8xxx PCI-based cards
> in linux, see drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-04 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-13 12:09 Marvell 88w8385 Support tsr
2009-01-13 14:52 ` John W. Linville
2009-01-14 16:47 ` Dan Williams
2009-01-14 17:14 ` John Daiker
2009-01-14 18:35 ` tsr
2009-01-14 18:57 ` Dan Williams
2009-01-16 17:36 ` Dan Williams
2009-01-17 16:20 ` tsr
2009-01-19 9:00 ` Holger Schurig
2009-01-17 22:59 ` tsr
2009-11-04 12:40 ` tsr
2009-11-04 15:29 ` Holger Schurig
2009-11-04 20:34 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2009-11-04 22:35 ` Julian Calaby
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