Strange wireless card?

Strange wireless card?

[Gene Heskett]

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.

Thanks for any pointers.

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Re: Strange wireless card?

[Robert Hancock]

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?

Re: Strange wireless card?

[Pavel Machek]

On Tue 2009-08-04 23:06:35, 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.

I don't know much about Marvell, but I'd not expect anything in /dev...
dmesg?
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Re: Strange wireless card?

[Roel Kluin]

Op 05-08-09 05:06, Gene Heskett schreef:
> 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.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers.
> 

It could be due to a regression I caused, see this thread,

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/8/77

Could you test it with this?

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c
index d699737..49fceb9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static int get_common_rates(struct lbs_private *priv,
 {
 	u8 *card_rates = lbs_bg_rates;
 	int ret = 0, i, j;
-	u8 tmp[(ARRAY_SIZE(lbs_bg_rates) - 1) * (*rates_size - 1)];
+	u8 tmp[*rates_size * ARRAY_SIZE(lbs_bg_rates) - 1];
 	size_t tmp_size = 0;
 
 	/* For each rate in card_rates that exists in rate1, copy to tmp */

Re: Strange wireless card?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 08 August 2009, Roel Kluin wrote:
>Op 05-08-09 05:06, Gene Heskett schreef:
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks for any pointers.
>
>It could be due to a regression I caused, see this thread,
>
>http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/8/77
>
>Could you test it with this?
>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c index d699737..49fceb9 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c
>@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static int get_common_rates(struct lbs_private *priv,
> {
> 	u8 *card_rates = lbs_bg_rates;
> 	int ret = 0, i, j;
>-	u8 tmp[(ARRAY_SIZE(lbs_bg_rates) - 1) * (*rates_size - 1)];
>+	u8 tmp[*rates_size * ARRAY_SIZE(lbs_bg_rates) - 1];
> 	size_t tmp_size = 0;
>
> 	/* For each rate in card_rates that exists in rate1, copy to tmp */

This is a total failure when I attempt to patch my 2.6.31-rc5 tree.  The patch 
trigger phrase lines are even so different that I am not comfortable trying to 
apply it by hand.

So obviously there have been other, intervening patches also.
If this makes it into rc6, maybe it will work?

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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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