Re: [PATCH] mwl8k: Add 0x2a02 PCI device-id (Marvell 88W8361)

Sedat Dilek
2012-04-27T10:57:52Z

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On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Lennert Buytenhek
<buytenh@wantstofly.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:12:13PM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>
>> >> >> >> Are you planning to or even working on support (for) 8361 devices?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I don't have any such plans, and I don't know of anyone who does.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Does 8361 require firmware support?
>> >> >
>> >> > What do you mean by that?
>> >>
>> >> IIRC ath5k for example needs no external firmware file.
>> >
>> > The 8361 requires firmware to be loaded into it before it'll do
>> > anything useful.
>> >
>> >
>> >> >> Does a firmware file exist (name?)?
>> >> >
>> >> > There's firmware for the 8361 out there, however, that version of
>> >> > the firmware implements a firmware API that is different from the
>> >> > one that mwl8k currently implements.
>> >> >
>> >> > You could add 8361 support to mwl8k, but then you'd have to go over
>> >> > all the firmware command invocations in mwl8k and make sure that they
>> >> > will work on the 8361 firmware that you're trying to support as well.
>> >>
>> >> Without having a 8361 this will be even harder to walk through.
>> >>
>> >> Anyway, thanks for your detailed explanations.
>> >>
>> >> What's the alternative for such affected users?
>> >> Use ndis-wrapper?
>> >
>> > I'm not sure.  I've never tried to get a 8361 work under Linux.
>>
>> Just found on [1] this same wrong patch in [2] :-).
>> Dunno if [3] worked and from where they have stolen fw-files.
>>
>> - Sedat -
>>
>> [1] https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/7209
>> [2] https://dev.openwrt.org/attachment/ticket/7209/mwl8k_fix_pci_id.patch
>> [3] https://dev.openwrt.org/attachment/ticket/7209/mwl8k_8361p.patch
>
> I doubt that [3] is really all that's needed to make it work.  But if
> there's someone for whom it works, I'd like them to run some tests on
> mwl8k + [3] on 88w8361p.

Just asked lautriv to do so (he will do against linux-3.3.3), lets' see.
Also, I refreshed and adapted a bit the instructions (see attachment).

- Sedat -

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### HELP-1: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=103243#p103243
### HELP-2: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=110004#p110004

### From HELP-1:

To extract the firmware for the mwl8k driver, open your Ubuntu terminal:

sudo apt-get install cabextract unshield

mkdir mwl8k
cd mwl8k

wget -O mrv8k_extract_fw.c 'http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=126540674419330&q=p3'
wget ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/wn311t_4_2_setup.exe

mkdir mess
cabextract -F Disk1/data*.* -d mess wn311t_4_2_setup.exe
unshield -g Driver -d mess x mess/Disk1/data1.cab
gcc -o mrv8k_extract_fw mrv8k_extract_fw.c
./mrv8k_extract_fw mess/Driver/netmw145.sys
rm -r mess

md5sum -b *.fw
mv fmimage_8XX1.fw fmimage_8363.fw
mv helper_8XX1.fw helper_8363.fw

### From HELP-2: For Marwell 8361P

md5sum -b *.fw | egrep '48c79b085f7f5a590d3dbc15647e519f|0fe11f415adbbd5e8ca03641705c4a6c'
[ OUTPUT ]
48c79b085f7f5a590d3dbc15647e519f *fmimage_8XX0.fw
0fe11f415adbbd5e8ca03641705c4a6c *helper_8XX0.fw

mv fmimage_8XX0.fw fmimage_8361p.fw
mv helper_8XX0.fw helper_8361p.fw

### PATCH: https://dev.openwrt.org/attachment/ticket/7209/mwl8k_8361p.patch

-dileks // 27-Apr-2012