User's Manual

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PLEASE NOTE THE DRIVER IS NOT PART OF THE MANUFACTURING PACKAGE
The user must compile the driver per your specific Linux OS and Kernel. This is due to that the driver is
dependent on the actual OS and kernel version. This next section will describe the steps needed to be
done before you can install the driver and run it.
Please download the production driver package from the extranet at the below location:
My Products/ Wireless/ 88W8897/ Software
Unzip these three zipped files:
a. XXX-8897-FC13-X86-X.X.X.X _X-app-src.tgz
b. XXX-8897-FC13-X86-X.X.X.X_X-GPL-src.tgz
c. XXX-8897-FC13-X86-X.X.X.X_X-mlan-src.tgz
From the unzipped files, go to the subdirectory wlan_src
*Make sure to have kernel headers and kernel libs before executing the “make” commands below.
make clean
make build
Go up one folder to copy both *.ko files to your directory in where you have the other files in where you
want to run the insmod command.
Here is the sample list of files (as a minimum) at 1 location:
bridge_init.conf
mfgbridge
mlan.ko
pcie8897.ko
Now you can run the following commands to install the driver and firmware and start the Manufacturing
bridge application with the following commands.
On the target platform, use the following commands to put the 88W8897 in MFG mode: