88W8305 CF

[Marek Vašut]

Dne čtvrtek 22 únor 2007 20:07 jste napsal(a):
> Dne čtvrtek 22 únor 2007 19:43 jste napsal(a):
> > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 19:06 +0100, Marek Vašut wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > Im watching the situation about 8385CF for some time now and I noticed
> > > recent Holger´s progress. Well, I also have similar device and Id like
> > > to see it working. Actually, it´s a WiFi chip in PDA. SyChip WLAN6061EB
> > > which is in fact 88W8305 connected over CF interface. My task, which I
> > > assigned to me myself ;) is to make it working in linux. I started
> > > investigating this a few months ago when I became bored by porting
> > > linux to omap based stuff (palmtt/palmz71) and moved to pxa (palm
> > > lifedrive). You can check this thread
> > >
> > > http://hackndev.com/node/423?from=110&comments_per_page=10
> > >
> > > I wrote all I know now there. I probably forgot to say I have Palm
> > > LifeDrive and Im cooperating on porting linux to it ... hmm ... the
> > > project leader broke his device and moved to palmt650 some time ago and
> > > Im alone there now :S
> > >
> > > You can also see this
> > > http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/AcerN50Hardware
> > > and notice also Marvell 8305 ... I dont have that handheld, but I think
> > > it´d help them too ;)
> > >
> > > So ... what I wanted to ask is whether I can cooperate with you too -
> > > porting stuff from 8385CF to 8305CF. Id like also to ask where can I
> > > buy some of those 8388 dongles so I wont break your code. Im looking
> > > forward for your reply.
> >
> > That really depends on how similar the 8305 is to the 8388/8385.  For
> > example, the 8338 is quite different than the 8388 (which OLPC uses).
> > If the firmware and hardware interface is quite similar, then maybe it
> > should all go in the same driver.  But if they are different in
> > significant ways, then it should be a separate driver.  The only reason
> > why the 8388 and 8385 should be the same driver is that the firmware API
> > for the two is almost identical, just the bus type is different.
> >
> > Dan
>
> Hi,
> 8305=8385 without 80211g support (and maybe something security related like
> wpa). There is also 8381 (in PalmTX) which is also b-only but has wpa2 etc.
> I ´d like to add support for that as soon as I have palmtx available too...
>
> Some press-crap for sychip wlan6061 (88w8305) is here
> http://www.sychip.com/PUB/WLAN6061EB.pdf
> and for wlan6064 (8381) here
> http://www.sychip.com/PUB/WLAN6064EB.pdf
>
> Both of those cards (chips) are for CF and I think the interface is
> similar, at least I´d like to give it a try ...
>
> Also see this:
> 8385 based CF card - manfid: 0x02df, 0x8103
> 8305 based CF card - manfid: 0x02db, 0x8103
>
> and dump_cis of 8305:
> Socket 0:
> no CIS present
>
> Socket 1:
> dev_info
> NULL 0ns, 512b
> attr_dev_info
> SRAM 450ns, 512b
> vers_1 1.0, "SyChip", "Cheetah WLAN Module", "WLAN6061", "01"
> manfid 0x02db, 0x8103
> funcid network_adapter
> lan_technology wireless
> lan_speed 1 mb/sec
> lan_speed 2 mb/sec
> lan_speed 5 mb/sec
> lan_speed 11 mb/sec
> lan_media 2.4_GHz
> lan_node_id 00 02 2d 42 e8 cc
> lan_connector Closed connector standard
> config base 0x0200 mask 0x0063 last_index 0x01
> cftable_entry 0x01 [default]
> Vcc Vmin 3V Vmax 3500mV Iavg 300mA Ipeak 300mA
> Idown 10mA
> io 0x0400-0x0447 [lines=7] [8bit] [16bit] [range]
> irq mask 0xffff [level] [pulse]
>
> btw. I know usb8338 is different a lot, I red that too ;)

and I forgot to add this link about differences between chips 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Libertas
;-)