Return-path: Received: from mail-iw0-f175.google.com ([209.85.223.175]:63825 "EHLO mail-iw0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754207Ab0CEAis (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:38:48 -0500 Received: by iwn5 with SMTP id 5so2278303iwn.1 for ; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:38:47 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4B9024DE.308@jacobs-university.de> References: <4B9024DE.308@jacobs-university.de> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 16:38:47 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Mesh support for gumstix's wireless (Marvell 88W8385 wireless chip with CF interface) From: Andrey Yurovsky To: Darko Makreshanski Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. > 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