Marvell 88W8388 driver (Was: OLPC Laptop - an open source substandard ?)

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 20:27 +1100, Alex Gibson wrote:
> Alex Gibson wrote:
> > Ivan Krstić wrote:
> >> Gabor Dolla wrote:
> >>> AFAICT there is no 802.11s support in the standard linux kernel.
> >>> Would it be possible to write the 802.11s code so that it could be used
> >>> in the standard linux kernel as well as in the firmware ?
> >>
> >> It's being worked on.
> >>
> > 
> > An idea we had for support infrastructure was something like a gumstix 
> > board(www.gumstix.com) with software 802.11s support to provide a mesh 
> > repeater/extender or message box storage / ultra lite weight server / 
> > comms hub.
> > 
> > Could fit the whole thing with backup battery ,small solar panel , 
> > regulator and antenna into the size of a shoe box.
> > 
> > Alex
> 
> Forgot to say
> 
> The gumstix guys are using a similar chipset from marvell
> and are also very interested in having an opensource driver/firmware.
> 
> The module they use has an 88W8s88 and 88W8385 in it.
> 
> Is it possible to buy any usb modules with the Marvell 88W8388 ?
> so we can get our hands on a few without depleting olpc supplies
> as I believe you guys don't have very many.

XBox USB wireless adapters reportedly have an 8388 inside.  But they
aren't 100% the same (perhaps a different EEPROM size) so they'd need a
bit of looking into.

Dan

> Have a good weekend
> (long weekend here with a public holiday tomorrow)
> 
> Alex
> 
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