From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Andrey Yurovsky <yurovsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Darko Makreshanski <d.makreshanski@jacobs-university.de>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mesh support for gumstix's wireless (Marvell 88W8385 wireless chip with CF interface)
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:35:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1267857349.2243.158.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c1545bb51003041638v28e5fe9me336735fc940e1ea@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 16:38 -0800, Andrey Yurovsky wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Darko Makreshanski
> <d.makreshanski@jacobs-university.de> wrote:
> > 1. will mesh networking work with the 88W8385 chip on gumstix with the
> > libertas driver?
>
> No. The OLPC uses an 88w8288 with in-firmware mesh on the USB
> variant. That firmware won't run on other chips.
I assume you mean 88w8388 :)
Dan
> > 3. if not, is it possible to make the libertas_tf driver work with this
> > chip?
>
> No. That driver only supports the 88w8388 USB variant with special
> firmware. Your chip is a full-MAC device and therefore cannot use the
> mac80211 mesh stack (and there isn't a special firmware to make it do
> something else).
>
> -Andrey
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-06 6:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-04 21:23 Mesh support for gumstix's wireless (Marvell 88W8385 wireless chip with CF interface) Darko Makreshanski
2010-03-05 0:38 ` Andrey Yurovsky
2010-03-06 6:35 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2010-03-07 17:21 ` Andrey Yurovsky
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