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
managed mode. works well even with network-manager GUI.
AP mode. Supporting single connection only (firmware limitation for the moment)
Iperf gives slightly above 1gbps steady throughput

TODO

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

Status

Basic support for 802.11ad merged into kernel 3.6
The driver gets posted for inclusion upstream.
Patches for hostapd/wpa_supplicant submitted, some part is already merged.

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.

How to

To start AP mode, use recent wpa_supplicant (assume relevant patches already merged). Sample config for non-secure mode:

ap_scan=2

network={

        frequency=60480

        ssid="the_ssid_string"

        mode=2

        key_mgmt=NONE
}

Sample config for secure mode. Note GCMP cipher:

ap_scan=2

network={

        frequency=60480

        ssid="secure_ap"

        psk="passphrase"

        mode=2

        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK

        proto=RSN

        pairwise=GCMP

        group=GCMP
}

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