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

Supported (probably) devices

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.