SDIO Marvel 8686 card

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 16:32 -0700, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Andrey Yurovsky <andrey at cozybit.com> 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).
> 
> Thanks that was too easy.  :-)
> 
> Earlier I was getting an error that it did not recognize the type of
> card, so I modified if_sdio.c like this:
> 
> static int if_sdio_probe(struct sdio_func *func,
>                 const struct sdio_device_id *id)
> {
>         struct if_sdio_card *card;
>         struct lbs_private *priv;
>         int ret, i;
>         unsigned int model;
>         struct if_sdio_packet *packet;
> 
>         lbs_deb_enter(LBS_DEB_SDIO);
> 
>         for (i = 0;i < func->card->num_info;i++) {
>                 lbs_pr_err("looking at func->card->info[%d]: %s\n", i,
> func->card->info[i]);
>                 if (sscanf(func->card->info[i],
>                                 "802.11 SDIO ID: %x", &model) == 1)
>                         break;
>                 if (sscanf(func->card->info[i],
>                                 "ID: %x", &model) == 1)
>                         break;
>                if (!strcmp(func->card->info[i], "Kodak WiFi card 3F8508")) {
>                         lbs_pr_err("Identified Kodak card\n");
>                        model = 4;
>                        break;
>                }
>                if (!strcmp(func->card->info[i], "IBIS Wireless SDIO Card")) {
>                        model = 4;
>                        break;
>                }
>         }
> 
> 
> I installed the firmware from the Marvell tarball (renamed the files):
> 
> [acer][04:02:56 PM] ll /lib/firmware/
> ....
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   2516 2009-01-23 16:00 sd8385_helper.bin
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 122916 2009-01-23 16:00 sd8686.bin

The firmware needs to be matched, so use sd8385_helper.bin and
sd8385.bin together.

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Dan

> 
> and I think udev's firmware.sh script finds it, but I have messages like this:
> 
> Jan 23 16:01:28 [kernel] libertas: looking at func->card->info[0]:
> Eastman Kodak Company
> Jan 23 16:01:28 [kernel] libertas: looking at func->card->info[1]:
> Kodak WiFi card 3F8508
> Jan 23 16:01:28 [kernel] libertas: failed to load helper firmware
> Jan 23 16:01:28 [kernel] libertas_sdio: probe of mmc0:0001:1 failed
> with error -84
> 
> I'm using Gentoo's version of kernel 2.6.27 on an Acer laptop that has
> an SD slot.
> 
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