Marvell 88W8388 not recognized

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 12:26 +0200, Andreas Weidlinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm searching an USB-WLAN-Adapter which supports 802.11s mesh networking 
> (finally for an embedded system).
> So I have bought the xbox360 wlan module, because there is the Marvell 
> 88W8388-BDK1 chip in it.

The XBox module uses a custom bootloader firmware that is not reverse
engineered and not compatible with the Libertas driver.  The only 8388
modules that are compatible with the Libertas driver are the USB ones
inside the OLPC, or the Marvell dev boards that OLPC distributed a few
years back to interested developers.

Dan

> I have disassembled it and saw that the USB pins are directly connected 
> to the 88W8388, but it won't be recogniced by my pc.
> Testsystem: Ubuntu 10.04, Kernel 2.6.32-23 with installed 
> "libertas-firmware" Package.
> dmesg only says:
> Jul 27 12:23:35 andi-laptop kernel: [ 2839.010070] usb 1-6: new high 
> speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
> Jul 27 12:23:36 andi-laptop kernel: [ 2839.165723] usb 1-6: 
> configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> 
> Could it be that microsoft have flashed an other firmware to the 88W8388 
> than these ones from the olpc project?
> Is there any way to get it working?
> 
> Thanks, Andi
> 
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