[ath6kl]: Concurrent mode (STA+P2P) or (AP+P2P)

Mike Engel engel.mike18 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 01:29:44 PST 2016


Any input or hint on this?

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Mike Engel <engel.mike18 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> we are using the kernel version 3.14 with the Atheros driver and we
> would like to use concurrent mode. We have the latest firmware version
> (fw-4) on the file system. We would like to use STA+P2P in concurrent
> mode that should work with the wireless chip.
>
> We are using this command sequence:
>
>> iw dev wlan0 interface add wlan1 type managed
>> ifconfig wlan1 up
>> wpa_cli
>> p2p_find
>
> If we try to connect to a device with
>
> p2p_connect <device_mac> pbc auth
>
> we get the following error.
>
> ath6kl: Not a supported interface type
>
> To make AP+STA working in the Atheros driver we did this change to the driver.
>
> static const struct ieee80211_iface_limit if_limits[] = {
>     { .max = 2, .types = BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) },
>     { .max = 1, .types = BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) },
> };
>
> static const struct ieee80211_iface_combination if_comb[] = {
>     {
>         .limits = if_limits,
>         .n_limits = ARRAY_SIZE(if_limits),
>         .max_interfaces = 2,
>         .num_different_channels = 1,
>         .beacon_int_infra_match = true,
>     },
> };
>
> Doing the same for STA+P2P doesn't seem to work.
>
> Any information or help is appreciated .
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Mike Engel



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