Thread: N9: Alternative Wi-Fi Hotspot app?
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juiceme is offline juiceme
2013-11-21 , 08:38
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#20
Originally Posted by nieldk View Post
Totally agree, the firmware is a closed blob, but the driver code is available and actually, I am looking at what to do with that - regarding injection - and aligning used driver code with more current updates. It is a simple task I would say, not difficult at all - just timeconsuming when you only have nighttime to work :P
The most difficult thing in the task is to make it coexist nicely with the existing Harmattan infra which would like to see the WLAN connection just as a client device. The kernel part is the easy part

You need to hack the startup scripts so that when you do a normal wlan connect it will load the normal mode wl12xx drivers (wl12xx_spi, wl12xx_sdio) and push up the wl1271-fw.bin firmware to the chip, and when you set up the AP mode it will unload the normal mode cleanly, push up the wl1271-fw-ap.bin firmware and kll off the network manager without affecting the 3g connection...