On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Lennert Buytenhek
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:25:21AM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:

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On 1st sight, logs look fine:

[21:52:52] <lautriv> [    6.050967] ieee80211 phy0: 88w8361p v4,
00173f3bdde3, STA firmware 2.1.4.25

But WLAN connection is not that fast and stable as lautriv reports
(several abnormalities were observed).

I requested a tarball which includes:
* dmesg (Linux-3.3.3)
* e_n_a (/etc/network/interfaces)
* ifconfig output
* iwconfig output
* iw_phy output
* ps_axu (WPA) output

lautriv will be so kind to be around on #linux-wireless/Freenode the
next days (UTC+2: German/Swiss local-time).
Just ping him.

Hope you have fun, together!

- Sedat -

A new tarball from lautriv with same outputs as before, but now tested
with Linux-3.4-rc4.

[ CC hauke (OpenWrt) and Ben Hutchings (linux-firmware maintainer) ]

The output looks good enough for me to ACK adding the PCI ID.

Can the firmware being used here be submitted to the linux-firmware
git tree?

I can't say much about the firmware [1] inclusion or the procedure of
it into linux-firmware [2].
Maybe, Ben can explain the procedure and what has to be considered
before inclusion in linux-firmware.
The original firmware and helper images were extracted from a Netgear
Windows driver [1].

From what I read in the OpenWrt forum posting [3]: You wanted to care

for inclusion:

"Firmware isn't included in the kernel tree anymore, there's the
linux-firmware git tree for that these days. I will contact some
people at Marvell to ask whether 8361P firmware can be included
there."

Some more concerns...
Dunno, if [4] is really correct and how to use one and same device-id
for 8363 ***and*** 8361P:
...
{ PCI_VDEVICE(MARVELL, 0x2a02), .driver_data = MWL8363, },
...
Curious about a statement from hauke...

Adding the device-id in case of 8361P is not enough (see attached patch)

I am looking forward to having support for 8361P soon.

- Sedat -

P.S.: I have re-added Readme and patch as there are new CCs.

[1] ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/wn311t_4_2_setup.exe
[2] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git;a=summary
[3] https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=110039#p110039
[4] https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/21167