AdHoc (IBSS) on Nexus 7 (2013) connecting to one node only

[Eugene Krasnikov]

The approach should be the same on both mako and deb. Just follow step
by step instructions on a wiki and that should work by default. If you
face any problems, we can try to sort that out and update wiki.

2014-08-28 8:49 GMT+01:00 Jaco Joubert <jdjoubert at gmail.com>:
> In the meantime I played a bit with CyanogenMod (which by the way does use
> the prima driver compiled as part of the kernel.. not a dynamic module).
> I experienced limited success for my specific requirement.  I sometimes have
> to re-configure the connection a couple of times before it sets up correctly
> and allow traffic to other ad-hoc nodes in range.  And when it does and
> there are multiple other nodes on the ad-hoc network, it only supports
> traffic to one (seems randomly chosen) node.
>
> While I'm trying to get to the bottom of why it (prima driver) is behaving
> like it is, I am also considering replacing the prima driver with wcn36xx as
> a test.  I unfortunately have limited experience in these sort of
> operations.  Are there any sort of guidelines I can follow to to this
> replacement, or am I completely on my own?  I can currently build
> CyanogenMod from source.  Basically need to rip out prima and replace with
> wcn36xx.  Also not sure if wcn36xx can/should be compiled as part of the
> kernel, or should it be a dynamically loaded module.
>
> The wcn36xx driver page has some instructions for doing this kind of thing
> for the "Mako" device on CM10.1
> (http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/wcn36xx#Mako_on_CM_10.1).  I am
> currently using the "deb" device on CM11 (M9).  I could attempt to roughly
> follow the Mako guide, but I just don't want to do that if I know up-front
> that my setup is too different.
>
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 4:04 PM, YanBo <dreamfly281 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jaco,
>>
>> The Prima driver also not implemented the ADHOC support, but there are P2P
>> support in you may have a reference,
>> WCN36XX and prima are totally different in the driver architect (IE
>> WCN26XX use the wireless MAC80211 but Prima has it own 80211 stack)and
>> license, you need evaluation them based on your specify requirement.
>>
>> BR /Yanbo
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:42 AM, Jaco Joubert <jdjoubert at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for the responses.  I will investigate the prima driver as
>>> well.
>>>
>>> I suppose its not fair to ask for an opinion between the 2 drivers on
>>> this mailing list (wcn36xx vs prima), but maybe specifically related
>>> to the Nexus 7 2013 device and CyanogenMod..
>>> Should I rather try to get the prima driver behaving like I need, or
>>> should I try replacing the prima driver with the wcn36xx driver?
>>> Maybe someone has done this already for the specific device mentioned
>>> and can give feedback on the outcome?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Kalle Valo <kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Jaco Joubert <jdjoubert at gmail.com> writes:
>>> >
>>> >> Apologies for my limited knowledge on this, but I'm not 100% sure!
>>> >>
>>> >> root at deb:/ # ls /sys/module/ | grep -E 'wcn|prima'
>>> >> wcnss_ssr_8960
>>> >> wcnsscore
>>> >>
>>> >> Does this mean wcn36xx?  Or how can I check?
>>> >
>>> > You should see wcn36xx module loaded. AFAIK CyanogenMod uses the prima
>>> > driver and if you didn't compile wcn36xx yourself, you are most likely
>>> > using the prima driver. And that driver is out of scope in this mailing
>>> > list.
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Kalle Valo
>>>
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>>
>>
>



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Best regards,
Eugene