Driver support for GSPI 8686

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 12:19 +0530, Kiran Kulkarni wrote:
> So Can you send me specs so that it will be helpful for me to develop 
> it, As the Hardware will be available to me in the near future

You'll have to get specs from Marvell, they are only distributed under
NDA AFAIK.

Dan

> Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:59 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> >   
> >> On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 17:18 +0530, Kiran Kulkarni wrote:
> >>     
> >>> I have Marvell GSPI 8686 adapter for Wi-Fi, I wanted to know whether I 
> >>> can use wpa_supplicant with it or do i have to write seperate driver 
> >>> interface, or can I us ndis as driver
> >>>       
> >> If the vendor driver supports WEXT, then you should be able to use it
> >> with the supplicant, though the vendor driver has historically not
> >> played quite-so-nicely with WEXT.  ndis is only used on Windows.
> >>     
> >
> > Clarification; if you mean "ndis" supplicant driver and the
> > "ndiswrapper" linux wireless driver, then _maybe_, but I haven't heard
> > of anyone using ndiswrapper with non-USB/PCI hardware.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >   
> >> The nice alternative would be to help get support for GSPI into the
> >> upstream kernel driver.  I've got some specs I could use to implement
> >> such support, but no hardware (I only have SDIO 8686) to test on.
> >>
> >> Dan
> >>
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