About wil6210

wil6210 is the Wilocity 60 GHz 802.11ad driver.

What works

sniffer. Due to hardware limitation it captures either only CP (control PHY) or DP (data PHY) frames
BSS between 2 peers. Both AP and managed modes supported. Single peer is hardware limitation. Iperf gives slightly above 1gbps

TODO

P2P and FST flows
after disconnect, upon 2-nd connect hardware goes crazy
various offloads

Status

A slew of initial 802.11ad patches have been posted. Patches get merged into the wireless-testing tree

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git

The drivers needs quite a bit of work before it gets posted for inclusion upstream but for those who have hardware and want to test the driver out in monitor or BSS mode you can use this release:

http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless/2012/06/compat-wireless-2012-06-29-pc.tar.bz2

You will need a recent wireless-testing kernel, as mentioned above.

Firmware

We need to get this publicly available...

In the current version, firmware stored in the flash memory on the NIC and not downloaded by the driver. Firmware flashing required for the upgrade only.

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