SDIO Marvel 8686 card

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 14:52 -0800, Andrey Yurovsky wrote:
> To download the '8686 firmware, download Marvell's driver from their
> site.  Click "drivers", select "Fedora / 2.6 kernel" from the OS list,
> and download the '8686 SYSKIT driver.  The firmware lives in its own
> directory in the .zip file.  Dan Williams also recently posted a note
> saying that the firmware for these cards is coming to the
> linux-firmware tree (that should include the '8385 FW).

It already got sucked in...

Dan


> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Shawn Rutledge
> <shawn.t.rutledge at gmail.com> 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
> >
> > 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
> >
> > so I ordered a couple.  Now I'm trying to find the firmware,
> > sd8385_helper.bin and sd8385.bin.
> >
> > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/libertas
> >
> > says it can be gotten from the Marvell site somewhere.  Any ideas more
> > specifically?  Lemme guess... it's not redistributable?
> >
> > This page
> >
> > http://wiki.openezx.org/WLAN
> >
> > says it "comes with the 2.4 code"... hmm would that be the GPL release
> > from Motorola, happened to include the firmware?
> >
> > Hmm looks like the Blackfin Linux project is using that chip too:
> >
> > http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/uclinux-dist/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_id=328&tracker_item_id=4214
> >
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