Broadcom 4330 and Intel Edison

[Arend van Spriel]

On 11/12/2015 09:24 PM, Domeika, Max J wrote:
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> On 11/12/15, 12:17 PM, "b43-dev on behalf of Domeika, Max J"
> <b43-dev-bounces at lists.infradead.org on behalf of max.j.domeika at intel.com>
> wrote:
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>> On 11/5/15, 3:22 AM, "Arend van Spriel" <arend at broadcom.com> wrote:
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>>> 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
>>
> What it seems we really want is Wifi-direct support. Will the 4330
> firmware in the repo support wifi-direct or is Wifi-direct also dependent
> on MBSS?

Hi Max,

WFD aka P2P is supported by 4330 firmware in the linux-firmware repo. It 
does not depend on MBSS feature. Are you sure your system has 4330. The 
Intel Edison configuration I came across so far had 43340. What modalias 
does SDIO bus show for this device?

Regards,
Arend