mwlwifi
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Basic information
- Module name(s): mwlwifi
- Authorship tag: vendor, community
- License governing driver source code: GPL
- Status: OoK
Function
- MAC architecture / mode: SoftMAC
- Driver framework(s): mac80211
- Firmware status tags: required
- Firmware license tags: redistribution allowed, closed source
Limitations / unimplemented functionality NOS
- Currently missing functionality:
- Notable limitations:
Supported modes
- STA (Station) mode: supported
- IBSS (Ad-Hoc) mode: supported
- AP (Master) mode: supported
- Mesh (802.11s) mode: supported
- P2P mode: unsupported
- Monitor mode: supported
- Packet injection: unknown
Hardware covered
Supported chips
- 88W8864, 88W8897, 88W8964, 88W8997
Supported (probably) devices
Additional links
- Development is more or less stalled, and while the driver has been integrated
- into OpenWrt, it was never accepted into the mainline kernel
{ PCI_VDEVICE(MARVELL, 0x2a55), .driver_data = MWL8864, }, { PCI_VDEVICE(MARVELL, 0x2b38), .driver_data = MWL8897, }, { PCI_VDEVICE(MARVELL, 0x2b40), .driver_data = MWL8964, }, { PCI_VDEVICE(MARVELL_EXT, 0x2b42), .driver_data = MWL8997, },
- AFAICT, this is the last patch posted to the LKML attempting to get mwlwifi merged.
- It would appear Marvell gave up.