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.