Marvell 88W8388 not recognized

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 12:23 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> 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.

Additionally, the "mesh" functionality provided in the OLPC usb8388
firmware is not true 802.11s mesh either, it's a somewhat customized
mesh protocol based on 802.11s drafts that works around some hardware
limitations of the usb8388 itself.  So it's probably not what you want.
The upstream kernel 802.11 stack (mac80211) does have some support for
actual 802.11s, so you may have more luck with an rt2x00 dongle and a
recent kernel.

Dan


> 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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