From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lennert Buytenhek Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwl8k: Add 0x2a02 PCI device-id (Marvell 88W8361) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:17:32 +0200 Message-ID: <20120427101732.GX3157@wantstofly.org> References: <1335517711-6522-1-git-send-email-sedat.dilek@gmail.com> <20120427091405.GS3157@wantstofly.org> <20120427094007.GU3157@wantstofly.org> <20120427094637.GV3157@wantstofly.org> <20120427095842.GW3157@wantstofly.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: sedat.dilek@gmail.com Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:12:13PM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote: > >> >> >> Are you planning to or even working on support (for) 8361 de= vices? > >> >> > > >> >> > I don't have any such plans, and I don't know of anyone who d= oes. > >> >> > >> >> 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 o= f > >> > the firmware implements a firmware API that is different from th= e > >> > one that mwl8k currently implements. > >> > > >> > You could add 8361 support to mwl8k, but then you'd have to go o= ver > >> > 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. =A0I've never tried to get a 8361 work under Linux. >=20 > Just found on [1] this same wrong patch in [2] :-). > Dunno if [3] worked and from where they have stolen fw-files. >=20 > - Sedat - >=20 > [1] https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/7209 > [2] https://dev.openwrt.org/attachment/ticket/7209/mwl8k_fix_pci_id.p= atch > [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.