From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Domeika, Max J Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 20:17:56 +0000 Subject: Broadcom 4330 and Intel Edison In-Reply-To: <563B3BF7.9010408@broadcom.com> References: <563A85BF.7050900@hauke-m.de> <563B3BF7.9010408@broadcom.com> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org On 11/5/15, 3:22 AM, "Arend van Spriel" wrote: >On 11/04/2015 11:25 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: >>On 11/04/2015 07:04 AM, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote: >>>On 3 November 2015 at 23:00, Domeika, Max J >>>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