Broadcom 4330 and Intel Edison
Arend van Spriel <[email protected]>
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On 11/12/2015 09:24 PM, Domeika, Max J wrote: > > > On 11/12/15, 12:17 PM, "b43-dev on behalf of Domeika, Max J" > <b43-dev-bounces at lists.infradead.org on behalf of [email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 11/5/15, 3:22 AM, "Arend van Spriel" <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >>>>> 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? Hi Max, WFD aka P2P is supported by 4330 firmware in the linux-firmware repo. It does not depend on MBSS feature. Are you sure your system has 4330. The Intel Edison configuration I came across so far had 43340. What modalias does SDIO bus show for this device? Regards, Arend