Netgear WG311v3 - Marvell 88w8355 "Libertas"

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 15:06 +1100, Julian Calaby wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 09:01 +1100, Julian Calaby wrote:
> >  > Well, that explains why the "Libertas" parts supported by the current
> >  > kernel require firmware and why the ndiswrapper driver I'm using
> >  > doesn't.
> >
> >  The 8335 still requires firmware.  Lots of the windows drivers embed the
> >  firmware into the .sys or .dll files, whereas on Linux embedding
> >  firmware into the driver is quite frowned upon.
> 
> Yeah, I discovered that the mrv8k driver still requires firmware,
> despite there being no actual file in the windows driver that I can
> point to as being the firmware image.

It's likely embedded into the sys file, try:

http://www.saillard.org/linux/mrv8k/files/mrv8k_extract_fw.c

to extract the firmware from a supported driver file.  At least one
versoin of WG311v3 driver seems to be supported there ("NETGEAR
WG311v3", "3.1.1.7") for extracting the firmware from.

Dan