drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/README

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System
Linux kernel
Corpus path
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/README
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[no extension]
Size
7791 bytes
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240
Domain
Driver Families
Bucket
drivers/net
Inferred role
Driver Families: drivers/net
Status
atlas-only

Why This File Exists

Repeatable hardware-adapter layer. Deep compatibility for every driver is out of scope; this atlas records patterns, probe lifecycles, bus glue, IRQ/DMA usage, and links back to core abstractions.

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================================================================================
			README for Libertas

 (c) Copyright © 2003-2006, Marvell International Ltd.
 All Rights Reserved

 This software file (the "File") is distributed by Marvell International
 Ltd. under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2, June 1991
 (the "License").  You may use, redistribute and/or modify this File in
 accordance with the terms and conditions of the License, a copy of which
 is available along with the File in the license.txt file or on the worldwide
 web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.

 THE FILE IS DISTRIBUTED AS-IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, AND THE
 IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
 ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED.  The License provides additional details about
 this warranty disclaimer.
================================================================================

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DRIVER LOADING
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	o. Copy the firmware image (e.g. usb8388.bin) to /lib/firmware/

	o. Load driver by using the following command:

		insmod usb8388.ko [fw_name=usb8388.bin]

=========================
ETHTOOL
=========================


Use the -i option to retrieve version information from the driver.

# ethtool -i eth0
driver: libertas
version: COMM-USB8388-318.p4
firmware-version: 5.110.7
bus-info:

Use the -e option to read the EEPROM contents of the card.

	Usage:
	ethtool -e ethX [raw on|off] [offset N] [length N]

       -e     retrieves and prints an EEPROM dump for the  specified  ethernet
              device.   When raw is enabled, then it dumps the raw EEPROM data
              to stdout. The length and offset parameters allow  dumping  cer-
              tain portions of the EEPROM.  Default is to dump the entire EEP-
              ROM.

# ethtool -e eth0 offset 0 length 16
Offset          Values
------          ------
0x0000          38 33 30 58 00 00 34 f4 00 00 10 00 00 c4 17 00

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DEBUGFS COMMANDS
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those commands are used via debugfs interface

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rdmac
rdbbp
rdrf
	These commands are used to read the MAC, BBP and RF registers from the
	card.  These commands take one parameter that specifies the offset

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