I missed your USB question. If you don't have enough power from USB for the Wi-Fi calibration you will get a driver timeout just after initialisation. I use a 2.1A powered Hub for my BBGW having seen failures on other "supplies". Iain
On Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at 6:00:35 PM UTC+1, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi Juliusz, > As far as the wl1835 driver is concerned it has MIMO enabled. > It is defined in the file /lib/firmware/ti-connectivity/wl18xx-conf.bin in > the entry wl18xx.phy.number_of_assembled_ant2_4 = 0x02. > You can inspect the contents of this file with > > #wlconf -i /lib/firmware/ti-connectivity/wl18xx-conf.bin -g | grep phy > > > There is no ad-hoc mode driver for WL18xx. There is an 802.11s mesh driver > using open80211s. However, this is only available in TI's driver at the > moment in latest release R8.7 ( > http://software-dl.ti.com/ecs/WiLink8/latest/index_FDS.html). It is > relatively trivial exercise to build this driver. > > Iain > > > On Monday, August 1, 2016 at 2:50:08 PM UTC+1, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >> >> > https://github.com/rcn-ee/repos/pull/17 >> >> Thanks for the speedy commit. >> >> Have you considered my suggestion to enable MIMO in the Wifi by default? >> Since the BBGW has two antenna connectors, it might make sense, although >> it might cause problems for people who decide not to connect any >> antennas -- I'm not sure how well the chip handles having just one >> antenna >> in MIMO mode (detecting misconfiguration is doable, just not usually >> implemented except on Atheros chips). >> >> On a related note -- I've evaluated the BBGW carefully, and while I like >> the hardware very much, it's unsuitable for my purposes since it's unable >> to do ad-hoc (I need a chip able to do ad-hoc and AP at the same time). >> Do you know if there are any plans to implement ad-hoc on the wl18xx? >> >> Finally, does anyone know how to test whether a USB port has enough power >> for the Beaglebone? I'm hooking mine off a port I don't have reliable >> information on, I'm wondering how to load it so I can know for sure. >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- Juliusz >> > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/14be7672-1090-4de3-8c81-6da26f704908%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
