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How to setup Marvell 88w8686 SDIO wifi

493 bytes added, 07:57, 31 July 2010
Setup basics
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The firmware binaries sd8686_helper.bin and sd8686.bin should be in /lib/firmware directory.
 
NOTE: It appears that the helper file is named differently in newer versions of the firmware (helper_sd.bin). I renamed it to "sd8686_helper.bin". Also, the following command assumes that you have compiled the libertas driver as a module. If you use the "igep0020_defconfig" during kernel compilation, you will want to menuconfig and make libertas a module instead of a built in kernel.
To make the SDIO WIFI module work load the libertas_sdio module
libertas: eth1: Marvell WLAN 802.11 adapter
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NOTE: I did not see any of the above output when I modprobe'd libertas_sdio on a 2.6.35-rc6 kernel.
 
Now you can connect this wifi module to an AP. First of all, you'll check if your devices is detected.
<pre># iwconfig
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 16.327/16.327/16.327 ms
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== How to debug the libertas driver ==
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