Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)

[Almost-retired]

Greetings all;

This seems to be sold under more than one brand name.  This one came in a d-link box IIRC.

I want this to be setup so as to be functionally equivalent to plugging in an old WAP-11 802.11b access point into my 8 port switch downstream of my dd-wrt router, available only as an AP port, but since its pci-e, plugged into this asus mobo, with a high gain external antenna.

I have visions of using this machine as a relay between my laptop, this machine, and the rest of the world so I don't have to putz with a cable when I bring the lappy in to update it.  It is also running pclos, rather nicely I might add.

drakeconfig however, insists that I use the ndiswrapper stuff, which I find odd since we have a perfectly good driver in the kernel now, in the form of the mwl8k.ko device driver.

However, the ndiswrapper option cannot be unchecked so as to allow another driver choice to be selected.

Can this be fixed?

Thanks all.

--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)

[Texstar]

Remove the ndiswrapper package that contains the info to emulate said driver?

[Almost-retired]

I just removed all of the ndiswrapper stuff, including the main package.  No diff, it is still checked forever, and now won''t let me proceed at all.

Next & thanks.

--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)

[Hootiegibbon]

Almost-retired

Looks like the module as it stands has very limited compatibility and does not cover your card .. yet

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/mwl8k

Jase

[Texstar]

Almost-retired

Looks like the module as it stands has very limited compatibility and does not cover your card .. yet

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/mwl8k

Jase

Thanks Hootie. He said it was a perfectly working driver.

Almost-retired - you can always manually modprobe the driver from a root terminal then see if pcc will accept it.

[Hootiegibbon]

Texstar,

 I have a vested interest - I have a pci libertas card sitting in a anti-static bag on the shelf gathering dust.

Jase

[Almost-retired]

Yeah, and I have 2 of them, one in a dd-wrt install on an old x86 box that dd-wrt doesn't recognize, and the other in this box.  dd-wrt only supports the atheros 9 series cards, and when I bought these about a year ago I was on a search mission to find 2 such cards, and was assured by the techy at Staples that the box did indeed contain the atheros chipset.

So much for Staples, they only know about winders crap anyway.  OTOH, I guess I should expect that out here in the hills and hollers of West (by God) Virginia. ;-)

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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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        indigestion.

[Was_Just19]

Texstar,

 I have a vested interest - I have a pci libertas card sitting in a anti-static bag on the shelf gathering dust.

Jase

Did I come across a mention of this chipset being supported in the 2.6.37 kernel?
Not sure as I was looking for something else at the time .......

[Almost-retired]

Textstar;

From the looks of the patchlist as of New Years Eve, it is looking better, AP mode is being added.  However, that is not my point, the point is that HardDrake has the ndiswrapper thing permanently checked.  What line in what script can I comment out or modify to make the checkmark in that 'button' toggle able'?

And yes, I have modprobed the driver, but that makes no diff to HardDrake.  From dmesg after doing that:

[ 4196.001601] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 4196.052222] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
[ 4196.052226]     (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
[ 4196.052229]     (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 4196.052232]     (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 4196.052235]     (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 4196.052238]     (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[ 4196.052240]     (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)

See <http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/Genes-os9-stf/snapshot1.png>

That snapshot1.png was taken after modprobing the driver, and running the configure tool as root from a scratch start after.

This is what I need to fix.

Thanks.

--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Information Processing:
        What you call data processing when people are so disgusted with
        it they won't let it be discussed in their presence.