Broadcom 4330 and Intel Edison

[Domeika, Max J]

On 11/5/15, 3:22 AM, "Arend van Spriel" <arend at broadcom.com> wrote:

>On 11/04/2015 11:25 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>>On 11/04/2015 07:04 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>>On 3 November 2015 at 23:00, Domeika, Max J <max.j.domeika at intel.com>
>>>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