Re: Strange wireless card?

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Aug 08 2009 - 11:24:31 EST


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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