[maemo-developers] stlc45xx: open source WLAN driver for N800 and N810

[From: Kalle Valo]

"ext Frantisek Dufka" <dufkaf at seznam.cz> writes:

> Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Nokia 770 has stlc4370 and documentation for that chipset is not
>> available. I'm not aware of the differences between stlc4370 and the
>> newer chips so I cannot say how much work there is needed to get the
>> driver working in 770.
>
> Not good :-(

Yeah, I know.

> But still, the driver talks to the firmware and so far you were
> shipping both (3825/3826.arm) firmwares together so I hoped they
> offer same API when accessed over SPI.

Let's hope so.

> Or do you have some special and different 3826.arm firmware now for
> open source driver?

There is no separate firmware, stlc45xx uses the same firmware as
cx3110x/umac combination.

> Or is the difference in umac.ko for 770 vs N8x0? I hope not, I think
> Poky people were succesfull with 2.6.18 kernel and umac.ko for N800
> runing on 770. So can we take the firmware as working black box
> offering same functionality for both chips?

I can't comment on this. This is also a bit grey area for me because
the documentation covers only stlc4550 and stlc4560. I don't know the
legal situation with stlc4370.

-- 
Kalle Valo