Netgear WG311v3 - Marvell 88w8355 "Libertas"

[Julian Calaby]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:28 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Thought as much, I've already downloaded it, and will be trying it out tonight.

Thanks,

(sorry for the dupe, hit the wrong button)

-- 

Julian Calaby

Email: julian.calaby at gmail.com