Subject: Re: wireless driver crashing frequently
To: ravin goyal <ravirocks1021@gmail.com>,
        linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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From: Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:28:32 +0100
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On 15-2-2017 10:54, ravin goyal wrote:
> Hello, I have a banana pi m2+ running raspbian lite 3.4.112-sun8i
> I am running hostapd on it
> 
> My wireless chip is AP6212 ,when I start hostapd sometime it runs
> sometime it leads to kernel crash
> 
> please follow this link to see the kernel messages: https://clbin.com/PXBSB?hl
> 
> I have been told to ask my doubt here since it is the problem of the
> driver in the kernel
> 
> To make hostapd work properly I have to manuallly run this command
> 
> modprobe -v bcmdhd op_mode=2
> 
> bcmdhd is my wireless driver
> 
> after this hostapd is able to broadcast the ssid, if i don't provide
> the op_mode=2 while loading the module, hostapd will not broadcast the
> ssid.
> 
> any help on this ?

You are asking the wrong crowd. bcmdhd is an android driver. In upstream
linux we have brcmfmac. Are you running android or upstream linux. At
least you are on a pretty old kernel so I suspect android.

Regards,
Arend