[Bug 193628] New: Marvell 88W8335 wireless NIC not enabled by malo(4) or ndis(4)

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            Bug ID: 193628
           Summary: Marvell 88W8335 wireless NIC not enabled by malo(4) or
                    ndis(4)
           Product: Ports Tree
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: i386
                OS: Any
            Status: Needs Triage
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: freebsd-ports-bugs at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: listjm at club.fr

FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE. NIC: Cameo WLG-1203 (Marvell chip 88W8335).

Once the malo(4) firmware module is patched for staging (see bug #193588), both
malo.ko and malofw.ko kernel modules can be installed and loaded without issues
but the card is not recognized, no dmesg or pciconf output refer to it.

I had better luck with ndis(4): it created the module based on the Windows XP
driver and the card was recognized, but failed with:
ndis0: <IEEE 802.11g Wireless Cardbus/PCI Adapter> mem
0xeb000000-0xeb00ffff,0xeb010000-0xeb01ffff irq 19 at device 8.0 on pci0
ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0
ndis0: init handler failed
device_attach: ndis0 attach returned 6

At first I thought the problem was the lack of firmware, so I repeated the
process adding to the XP driver files the two files (malo8335-h and malo8335-m)
packed in the malo(4) firmware port:
http://weongyo.org/project/malo/malo-firmware-1.4.tar.gz

… but the result was the same.

I’m quite sure this card is ok (just bought it from a serious shop) but I have
no XP computer to test it. The card is recognized in a Windows 7 computer but
still does not start.

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