From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Raffaele Recalcati <lamiaposta71@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wl0084a / wl1271 understanding
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:16:09 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EEE1FD9.3060206@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFU7RzNmrAWT+ZuZZ3tFsn2GZpUbkZHW1zwG99KGV4ceQdcbkQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/17/2011 10:56 PM, Raffaele Recalcati wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
If that device is Rev 1, it uses driver r8192e_pci. If it is Rev 10, then it
uses rtl8192ce. Both drivers are in the kernel since 2.6.38, and should just
work if your kernel is new enough.
Larry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-18 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-17 4:54 wl0084a / wl1271 understanding Raffaele Recalcati
2011-12-17 9:35 ` Luciano Coelho
2011-12-17 16:05 ` Larry Finger
2011-12-18 4:56 ` Raffaele Recalcati
2011-12-18 17:16 ` Larry Finger [this message]
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