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mwifiex

Manual

Marvell 802.11n SDIO/PCI-E/USB FullMAC driver.

Contents

  1. mwifiex
    1. Supported chipsets
    2. Firmware binary
    3. AP Mode

Supported chipsets

  • SDIO SD8786/SD8787/SD8797/SD8897

  • PCI-E 8766/8897

  • USB USB8797

Firmware binary

The firmware can be obtained from firmware tree.

AP Mode

mwifiex does support access point mode, but an access point interface must be created using iw dev mlan0 interface add uap0 type __ap
This interface can then be used with hostapd.

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