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Re: Mesh support for gumstix's wireless (Marvell 88W8385 wireless chip with CF interface)

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On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 16:38 -0800, Andrey Yurovsky wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Darko Makreshanski
> <d.makreshanski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 1. will mesh networking work with the 88W8385 chip on gumstix with the
> > libertas driver?
> 
> No.  The OLPC uses an 88w8288 with in-firmware mesh on the USB
> variant.  That firmware won't run on other chips.

I assume you mean 88w8388 :)

Dan

> > 3. if not, is it possible to make the libertas_tf driver work with this
> > chip?
> 
> No.  That driver only supports the 88w8388 USB variant with special
> firmware.  Your chip is a full-MAC device and therefore cannot use the
> mac80211 mesh stack (and there isn't a special firmware to make it do
> something else).
> 
>   -Andrey
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