On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:12:13PM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:

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Are you planning to or even working on support (for) 8361 devices?

I don't have any such plans, and I don't know of anyone who does.

Does 8361 require firmware support?

What do you mean by that?

IIRC ath5k for example needs no external firmware file.

The 8361 requires firmware to be loaded into it before it'll do
anything useful.

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Does a firmware file exist (name?)?

There's firmware for the 8361 out there, however, that version of
the firmware implements a firmware API that is different from the
one that mwl8k currently implements.

You could add 8361 support to mwl8k, but then you'd have to go over
all the firmware command invocations in mwl8k and make sure that they
will work on the 8361 firmware that you're trying to support as well.

Without having a 8361 this will be even harder to walk through.

Anyway, thanks for your detailed explanations.

What's the alternative for such affected users?
Use ndis-wrapper?

I'm not sure.  I've never tried to get a 8361 work under Linux.

Just found on [1] this same wrong patch in [2] :-).
Dunno if [3] worked and from where they have stolen fw-files.

- Sedat -

[1] https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/7209
[2] https://dev.openwrt.org/attachment/ticket/7209/mwl8k_fix_pci_id.patch
[3] https://dev.openwrt.org/attachment/ticket/7209/mwl8k_8361p.patch

I doubt that [3] is really all that's needed to make it work.  But if
there's someone for whom it works, I'd like them to run some tests on
mwl8k + [3] on 88w8361p.