Re: help with wg511v2

On 07/30/2011 07:12 AM, Christian Lamparter wrote:

On Saturday 30 July 2011 05:36:09 Martin Partridge wrote:

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02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)

     ^^^^^^^

Ah, this explains it everything. You are unfortunately a victim of Netgear's stupid
naming scam. The situation is explained at http://daemonizer.de/prism54/wg511/
The upshot is: there are two WG511 v2 versions, but only the first v2 works with
p54. The second one needs a driver from marvell.

The driver is called mrv8k, but it's not in the Linux tree, not even in 
staging.  I don't know why.  Perhaps it's not functional.

Several pages recommend disabling mrv8k and using ndiswrapper with 
Windows drivers.  Until ndiswrapper 1.57 is released, you'll need the 
current snapshot from subversion, as ndiswrapper 1.56 doesn't compile 
for Linux 2.6.35 and newer.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin