On 11/12/15, 12:17 PM, "b43-dev on behalf of Domeika, Max J" <b43-dev-boun...@lists.infradead.org on behalf of max.j.dome...@intel.com> wrote:
>On 11/5/15, 3:22 AM, "Arend van Spriel" <ar...@broadcom.com> wrote: > >>On 11/04/2015 11:25 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: >>>On 11/04/2015 07:04 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >>>>On 3 November 2015 at 23:00, Domeika, Max J <max.j.dome...@intel.com> >>>>wrote: >>>>>We are trying to get the Intel Edison which uses the Broadcom 4330 to >>>>>act as both an AP and client at the same time. Iw list seems to >>>>>suggest it is possible, but we haven't figured out the correct process >>>>>to do so or even if the underlying kernel will allow it (using >>>>>ubilinux 3.10.17 and the driver is bcm43340-mod-1.141-r47. >>>> >>>>It's some out-of-tree driver and BCM4330 is most likely a FullMAC >>>>chip. It's not really related to b43 driver which support SoftMAC >>>>devices. >>>> >>>bcm4330 is supported by the Linux upstream driver brcmfmac [0], you >>>could take brcmfmac from backports [1] and try if that driver supports >>>your requirements. BCM43340 seams to be a different chip, but it is also >>>supported by brcmfmac. >> >>Doing AP+STA requires MBSS support, which 4330 firmware does not. At >>least not the one in linux-firmware repo. >> > >Thanks. Sorry for the delay. Trying to learn enough to ask the right >questions. My read of this thread is that I could try brcmfmac from back >ports, but Arend is saying the firmware in the linux-firmware repo >wouldn't work anyways. Is that correct? > >Max > What it seems we really want is Wifi-direct support. Will the 4330 firmware in the repo support wifi-direct or is Wifi-direct also dependent on MBSS? Thanks, Max > _______________________________________________ b43-dev mailing list b43-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev
