qtnfmac

Basic information

• Module name(s): qtnfmac
• Authorship tag: vendor, community
• License governing driver source code: GPL
• Status: in-kernel

Function

• MAC architecture / mode: FullMAC
• Driver framework(s): cfg80211
• 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: unknown
• AP (Master) mode: unknown
• Mesh (802.11s) mode: unknown
• P2P mode: unknown
• Monitor mode: unknown
• Packet injection: unknown

Hardware covered

Supported chips

• QT10GU, QT7810C, QT6210B

External links

• On the Linux Wireless Wiki

qtnfmac is the FullMAC wireless driver for Quantenna QSR10G chipset.

Features

AP mode, requires wpa_supplicant/hostapd 2.6 or newer

STA mode

802.11bgn, 802.11ac

Status

This wireless driver has been accepted to mainline Linux v4.13.

Driver is under active development.

Additional information

This driver supports PCIe devices with PCI ID: 1bb5:0008 - pcie.c • qtn_hw_ids.h