RE: AP firmware for TI wl1251 wifi chip (wl1251-fw-ap.bin)

From: Machani, Yaniv
Date: Wed Apr 06 2016 - 07:31:37 EST


On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 15:39:44, Pali RohÃr wrote:

> > In linux-firmware repository [1] is missing AP firmware for TI
> > wl1251 chip. There is only STA firmware wl1251-fw.bin which supports
> > managed and ad-hoc modes.
> >
> > For other TI wilink chips there are <CHIP>-ap.bin firmware files
> > (wl1271-fw-ap.bin and wl128x-fw-ap.bin) which support AP mode. But
> > for
> > wl1251 firmware file with guessed name "wl1251-fw-ap.bin" is missing.
> >
> > Do you have any idea what happened with AP firmware for ti wilink4
> > wl1251 wifi chip? Or where can be found? Guys from TI, can you help?
> >
> > I see that STA firmware was added into linux-firmware tree in year
> > 2013 by this pull request [2].
> >
> > [1] -
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware
> > .g
> > it/tree/ti-connectivity
> >
> > [2] -
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1566500/focus=1571382
> >
>
> Hi! Anybody has some idea about that AP firmware?
>

Hi,
wl1251 does not support AP mode, so there is no firmware for it in the tree.

Regards,
Yaniv

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