From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Strange wireless card?
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 20:07:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090807180755.GB1728@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908042306.36043.gene.heskett@verizon.net>
On Tue 2009-08-04 23:06:35, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> Can anyone tell me if this pci wireless card is supported, or what its
> status is?
>
> >From lspci -v:
> 01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)
> Subsystem: Netgear WG311v3 802.11g Wireless PCI Adapter
>
> I have built a 2.6.31-rc5 kernel with the Marvel stuffs all enabled, but
> even a modprobe mwl8k, while apparently loading the driver, doesn't create
> any wireless devices in /dev.
I don't know much about Marvell, but I'd not expect anything in /dev...
dmesg?
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-08 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-05 3:06 Gene Heskett
2009-08-05 23:35 ` Robert Hancock
2009-08-07 18:07 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2009-08-08 15:41 ` Roel Kluin
2009-08-08 17:24 ` Gene Heskett
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