Finding Drivers For winWiFi Card

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Sun Jan 24 12:22:55 UTC 2010


On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 05:31:53AM -0600, Programmer In Training wrote:
> Thanks, this probably wouldn't be such an issue if I hadn't thrown away
> the box two-three weeks ago (at least, I think I threw it out; I've had
> the card for about a two years).
> 
> 
> none3 at pci0:2:2:0: class 0x20000 card=0x1faa11ab chip=0x00351033 rev=0x43
> hdr=0x00
> 	vendor = 'Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology LLC)'
> 	device = 'Marvell Libertas 02.llb/g Wireless (8335)'
> 	class = network
> 	subclass = ethernet

zgrep Libertas /usr/share/man/man4/*
/usr/share/man/man4/if_malo.4.gz:.Nd "Marvell Libertas IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network driver"

So go and read if_malo(4). It looks like your card is supported, but you need to
download a firmware package. This driver was added in 7.1, according to the manpage.

Roland
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