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PostPosted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:12 pm    Post subject: Marvell pci wireless driver Reply with quote

Hi i have a pci wireless card its a Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335

I have looked in Net-wireless and had a Google and browsed around the kernel,is there a driver for this?
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's listed in the kernel as "Marvell 8xxx Libertas WLAN driver support". I'm not sure how far back it appears, version-wise. The dependencies for 2.6.24 are:
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Depends on: NETDEVICES && !S390 && WLAN_80211

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes i have them built in the kernel but iwconfig shows nothing?

How do i fire this card up :roll:
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You probably don't, unless you want to use ndiswrapper. Support for Marvell devices takes a long time, and they don't try and help.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tell me about it :(
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