SDIO Marvel 8686 card

[Shawn Rutledge]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 15:44 -0700, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
>> I was googling a couple days ago to see whether there is any
>> open-source SDIO wifi card.  I found this:
>>
>> http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2007/05/found-cheap-sdio-80211b-card.html
>
> The 8686 is actually an 802.11 b/g part.  I'd be quite surprised to see
> that card advertised as an 802.11b-only part.  But anyway...  I've never
> seen a consumer-level 8686 SDIO card.

OK that makes sense.

>
>> and some other clue somewhere that there might be an open-source
>> driver; and then found some on ebay:
>>
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370146807227
>
> Yeah, looking up the FCC ID shows it's a Marvell chip, but the image is
> too fuzzy to figure out what actual part # and hardware revision it is.

On the front:
FCC ID:PA4050449
IC ID:1016B-050449

001NYDA1546
001GZDA1260
ETC094LPD0184

On the back:
R-LARN-05-0103
PN: 3F8508
there is a MAC and some numbers underneath:
8810 5Z00 01

> In any case, 8385 SDIO should work with a little effort.  I'll try to
> grab a few of these and fix up the driver.  More testing on your side
> would be great too.

OK cool.