Marvell CB35 cardbus cards

Marvell CB35 cardbus cards

[Johannes Berg]

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Does anybody have such a card? I just found some code for it. It's based
on net80211, is anybody interested in that?

johannes

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Re: Marvell CB35 cardbus cards

[Holger Schurig]

> Does anybody have such a card? I just found some code for it.
> It's based on net80211, is anybody interested in that?

I'm interested in it. I have a Marvell 8385 compact flash card 
and try to massage the libertas driver (of OLPC fame) for the 
Marvell 8388 so that it works for both the USB dongle and the CF 
card. I could use a second external reference :-)


http://projects.linuxtogo.org/projects/marvell8385/
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Re: Marvell CB35 cardbus cards

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 13:52 +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:
> > Does anybody have such a card? I just found some code for it.
> > It's based on net80211, is anybody interested in that?
> 
> I'm interested in it. I have a Marvell 8385 compact flash card 
> and try to massage the libertas driver (of OLPC fame) for the 
> Marvell 8388 so that it works for both the USB dongle and the CF 
> card. I could use a second external reference :-)

What part is in the CB35?  Is that an 8335?

Dan

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Re: Marvell CB35 cardbus cards

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 18:35 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Does anybody have such a card? I just found some code for it. It's based
> on net80211, is anybody interested in that?

Oh, and what's the license on the code?  If it's GPL, would be useful to
take a look and see how different it is.

dan

Re: Marvell CB35 cardbus cards

[Johannes Berg]

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On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 09:57 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 18:35 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Does anybody have such a card? I just found some code for it. It's based
> > on net80211, is anybody interested in that?
> 
> Oh, and what's the license on the code?  If it's GPL, would be useful to
> take a look and see how different it is.

It says GPL on it and was in a random Linksys GPL tarball I downloaded.

I uploaded it at http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/files/marvell.tar.bz2

johannes

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Re: Marvell CB35 cardbus cards

[Holger Schurig]

> What part is in the CB35?  Is that an 8335?

Maybe. The driver is for a PCI device and the whole driver is 
very different to, say, the 8388 in the libertas-driver.

Re: Marvell CB35 cardbus cards

[John W. Linville]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:35:36PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Does anybody have such a card? I just found some code for it. It's based
> on net80211, is anybody interested in that?

I have a device, and probably a copy of the code you have.  A driver is
in progress -- just (hopefully) resolved some firmware loading issues.

John
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linville@tuxdriver.com

Re: Marvell CB35 cardbus cards

[John W. Linville]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 11:04:38AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:35:36PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Does anybody have such a card? I just found some code for it. It's based
> > on net80211, is anybody interested in that?
> 
> I have a device, and probably a copy of the code you have.  A driver is
> in progress -- just (hopefully) resolved some firmware loading issues.

Ooops...I misread 35 as 85.  Well, I do have the hardware.  And the
driver appears to have some similarities to what I've been doing...I'll
add it to my list...

John
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linville@tuxdriver.com

Re: Marvell CB35 cardbus cards

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 16:27 +0200, Holger Schurig wrote:
> > What part is in the CB35?  Is that an 8335?
> 
> Maybe. The driver is for a PCI device and the whole driver is 
> very different to, say, the 8388 in the libertas-driver.

Yes, that's what I've just heard.  It apparently is an 8335 device,
which is a lot more softmac than the 8388.  So it would likely have to
be a different driver, ideally based on mac80211.

Dan

Re: Marvell CB35 cardbus cards

[Holger Schurig]

> I have a device, and probably a copy of the code you have.  A
> driver is in progress -- just (hopefully) resolved some
> firmware loading issues.

My driver downloads the firmware fine, and I just started to 
implement the ISR. The patches are not yet in "fine" format, 
e.g. scripts/checkpatch.pl (from 2.6.22-rc4) still complains 
about minor issues.

Patches are against libertas-2.6

http://projects.linuxtogo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/libertas-patches/?root=marvell8385