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psycophobia
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 Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:12 pm Post subject: Marvell pci wireless driver |
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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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didymos
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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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psycophobia
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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Yes i have them built in the kernel but iwconfig shows nothing?
How do i fire this card up  |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| 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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psycophobia
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Tell me about it  |
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