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From: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Strange wireless card?
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:35:16 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A7A1734.5030202@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908042306.36043.gene.heskett@verizon.net>

On 08/04/2009 09:06 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> Can anyone tell me if this pci wireless card is supported, or what its
> status is?
>
>  From lspci -v:
> 01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)
>          Subsystem: Netgear WG311v3 802.11g Wireless PCI Adapter
>
> I have built a 2.6.31-rc5 kernel with the Marvel stuffs all enabled, but
> even a modprobe mwl8k, while apparently loading the driver, doesn't create
> any wireless devices in /dev.

they don't show up in /dev - tried iwconfig?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-05 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-05  3:06 Strange wireless card? Gene Heskett
2009-08-05 23:35 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2009-08-07 18:07 ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-08 15:41 ` Roel Kluin
2009-08-08 17:24   ` Gene Heskett

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