On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 :) Yes, sorry about the typo. The '2' and '3' keys are, of course, right next to each other ; ) >> > 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). By the way, you could try using the USB host on your Gumstix board with the rt2x00 or zd1211rw cards, those are soft-MAC and at least used to work with mesh mode. -Andrey -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
