[maemo-developers] N800 WLAN driver sources

[From: Neil MacLeod]

Frantisek Dufka wrote:
> This is interesting. Which internal RAM you mean? Do you mean that chip
> inside N800 mentioned in the driver as 'STLC4550, aka gen2.5 ' (the one
> which needs 3826.arm firmware) is different from chip inside N770 which
> needs firmware with same name (and is also mentioned in N770 version of
> driver as STLC4550)? Or the internal RAM is somewhere else? From
> features mentioned in datasheet [1] (Fully integrated ARM9 Media Access
> Controller) I guessed that the .arm firmware blob is ARM code loaded
> into that integrated ARM9 controller. So how the RAM for firmware for
> N800 can be bigger than for N770 (for same wlan chip)?
> 
> Of course only in case there are N770 devices with STLC4550 chip at all
> (I guess there are but don't know for sure).
> 
> Frantisek
> 
> 
The WLAN chip in the N800 is the STLC4550:

http://thoughtfix.blogspot.com/2007/02/n800-chips-revealed-usb-on-go.html