mwlwifi

Basic information

• Module name(s): mwlwifi
• Authorship tag: vendor, community
• License governing driver source code: GPL
• Status: OoK

Function

• MAC architecture / mode: SoftMAC
• Driver framework(s): mac80211
• Firmware status tags: required
• Firmware license tags: redistribution allowed, closed source

Limitations / unimplemented functionality NOS

• Currently missing functionality:
• Notable limitations:

Supported modes

• STA (Station) mode: supported
• IBSS (Ad-Hoc) mode: supported
• AP (Master) mode: supported
• Mesh (802.11s) mode: supported
• P2P mode: unsupported
• Monitor mode: supported
• Packet injection: unknown

Hardware covered

Supported chips

• 88W8864, 88W8897, 88W8964, 88W8997

Additional links

• kaloz/mwlwifi on GitHub

Development is more or less stalled, and while the driver has been integrated

into OpenWrt, it was never accepted into the mainline kernel

        { PCI_VDEVICE(MARVELL, 0x2a55),     .driver_data = MWL8864, },
	{ PCI_VDEVICE(MARVELL, 0x2b38),     .driver_data = MWL8897, },
	{ PCI_VDEVICE(MARVELL, 0x2b40),     .driver_data = MWL8964, },
	{ PCI_VDEVICE(MARVELL_EXT, 0x2b42), .driver_data = MWL8997, },

• (PATCH v9) Add new mac80211 driver mwlwifi. on the Linux Wireless Mailing List

AFAICT, this is the last patch posted to the LKML attempting to get mwlwifi merged.

It would appear Marvell gave up.