On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 15:12:43, Pali Rohár wrote: > > > > For other TI wilink chips there are <CHIP>-ap.bin firmware files > > > > (wl1271-fw-ap.bin and wl128x-fw-ap.bin) which support AP mode. > > > > But for > > > > wl1251 firmware file with guessed name "wl1251-fw-ap.bin" is > > > > missing. > > > > > > > > Do you have any idea what happened with AP firmware for ti > > > > wilink4 wl1251 wifi chip? Or where can be found? Guys from TI, > > > > can you help? > > > > > > > > I see that STA firmware was added into linux-firmware tree in > > > > year > > > > 2013 by this pull request [2]. > > > > > > > > [1] - > > > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firm > > > > w > > > > are .g > > > > it/tree/ti-connectivity > > > > > > > > [2] - > > > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1566500/focus=1571382 > > > > > > Hi! Anybody has some idea about that AP firmware? > > > > Hi, > > wl1251 does not support AP mode, so there is no firmware for it in > > the tree. > > > > Regards, > > Yaniv > > Hi Yaniv! I read on some TI whitepaper, that wl1251 hardware supports > some Soft-AP mode. So I expect that either special FW is needed for it > or somehow it is possible to use current released. Do you have any > information about it? > > -- > Pali Rohár > pali.ro...@gmail.com
Hi Pali, This must be some typo, the device does not support Soft-AP. More than that, wl1251 family is not officially supported via the mainline Linux. For Soft-AP, and other new features based on Linux you should use WiLink8 chip family. Regards, Yaniv
