wcn36xx for MotoG (XT1045, CM 11.0)

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Yes from the commit messages online it seems mesh was mostly working and P2P was close. Since mesh didn’t have mac80211 iface combinations enabled though STA+mesh mode won’t work at the same time. It looks like P2P once supported multiple interfaces but the changes were dropped. I’ve been working to merge the mesh and P2P from a year ago with the upstream changes and see if I can get something working.

On Jan 27, 2015, at 2:54 PM, Eugene Krasnikov <k.eugene.e at gmail.com> wrote:

> I belive mesh network was working at some point.
> 
> 2015-01-22 16:10 GMT+00:00 S <buildbreakfix at gmail.com>:
>> Hello again, thanks for the reply - I actually just managed to get everything working last night!
>> 
>> I was mistaken in that (I think) the XT1045 contains a wcn3680 so the output from the driver was correct. I compiled iw and had minimal success running hostap and manually connecting to networks.
>> 
>> Turns out the trick was to adjust the Wifi.c file located in cyanogen/hardware/libhardware_legacy/wifi/wifi.c and recompile CM11.
>> I forced wifi_load_driver() to return 1 since the driver downloads the firmware, and your shell script inserts the module. This allowed wpa_supplicant to run from init.rc, enabling the UI inside of android. Good news is the driver seems to work on CM11 with just a few tweaks, and it seems to work on the Motorola phones as well.
>> 
>> Thanks for the support and all the work on this driver! I’ll continue testing and will begin investigating my initial goal of an AP—>Phone—>Phone relay. In some drivers this is called wifi "multi-role" I believe? Does it still seem feasible the firmware will support simultaneous connections to an AP and another phone?
>> 
>> Thanks again,
>> - Stephen
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 22, 2015, at 3:08 AM, Eugene Krasnikov <k.eugene.e at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Try to get iw working. Also have a look into kernel logs.
>>> 
>>> 2015-01-20 7:28 GMT+00:00 S <buildbreakfix at gmail.com>:
>>>> Hi again - just wanted to share my progress, especially since the MotoG and
>>>> CM11 weren't previously tested.
>>>> 
>>>> After a number of recompiles and file edits I got the driver to build and
>>>> run on the device.
>>>> Unfortunately the UI doesn’t seem to work with the driver. Manually bringing
>>>> up the device with “netcfg wlan0 up” outputs the FW capabilities then throws
>>>> the error:
>>>> 
>>>> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
>>>> 
>>>> Neither iw or iwconfig are available on the system so I can’t figure out a
>>>> way to test getting the device online. No luck with starting from the UI
>>>> either.
>>>> 
>>>> Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
>>>> Stephen
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Here are a few additional notes where I had to work around the read-me
>>>> steps. Thought it might be helpful:
>>>> 
>>>> • compiling compat on Mac OS 10.9 does not work for me and will not build
>>>> the driver. I’ve switched to Linux.
>>>> • Chip is detected as 3680. Behavior is the same if forced to run as 3660.
>>>> • Needed to edit main.c before compiling. Added changes in BOLD
>>>> static void wcn36xx_sw_scan_complete(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct
>>>> ieee80211_vif *vif)
>>>> static void wcn36xx_sw_scan_start(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct
>>>> ieee80211_vif *vif,const u8 *mac_addr)
>>>> • Newest firmware from Qcom doesn’t load. Firmware from CM11 does download
>>>> properly.
>>>> • hostapd with a default configuration does seems to work intermittently.
>>> 
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>>> --
>>> Best regards,
>>> Eugene
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> Best regards,
> Eugene