From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Domeika, Max J Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 20:24:36 +0000 Subject: Broadcom 4330 and Intel Edison In-Reply-To: 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 11/12/15, 12:17 PM, "b43-dev on behalf of Domeika, Max J" wrote: >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 > 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 >