Return-path: Received: from mail-iw0-f202.google.com ([209.85.223.202]:42079 "EHLO mail-iw0-f202.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751584Ab0CGRVo convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Mar 2010 12:21:44 -0500 Received: by iwn40 with SMTP id 40so217361iwn.1 for ; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:21:43 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1267857349.2243.158.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <4B9024DE.308@jacobs-university.de> <1267857349.2243.158.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 09:21:43 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Mesh support for gumstix's wireless (Marvell 88W8385 wireless chip with CF interface) From: Andrey Yurovsky To: Dan Williams Cc: Darko Makreshanski , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 16:38 -0800, Andrey Yurovsky wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Darko Makreshanski >> 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 :) Yes, sorry about the typo. The '2' and '3' keys are, of course, right next to each other ; ) >> > 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). By the way, you could try using the USB host on your Gumstix board with the rt2x00 or zd1211rw cards, those are soft-MAC and at least used to work with mesh mode. -Andrey