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From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Denis Kirjanov <kirjanov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	dwmw2@infradead.org, David.Woodhouse@intel.com
Subject: Re: Bringing up Marvell 88W8300
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:07:57 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1290028078.8522.62.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinKMfu2SX2fymUDi3JooAwKZv7=41BQBywR3pVe@mail.gmail.com>

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



  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-17 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-08 16:10 Bringing up Marvell 88W8300 Denis Kirjanov
2010-11-13  0:22 ` Dan Williams
2010-11-13 16:45   ` Denis Kirjanov
2010-11-17 17:15     ` Denis Kirjanov
2010-11-17 21:07       ` Dan Williams [this message]
2010-11-18 11:37         ` Julian Calaby
2010-12-15  0:38           ` Yuhong Bao

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