2008-09-07 10:25:14

by Guennadi Liakhovetski

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Subject: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller

Hi

The above adapter is installed in my ACER Extensa 5220, googling around I
found various references to this chip, the main resume seems to be "works
only with ndiswrapper." Is it true and if it is ATM, is it going to
change?:-) Any work in progress or plans to support it natively? lspci -vv
output is at http://home.arcor.de/g.liakhovetski/extensa5220/.

Tried brutally adding the PCI ID to the ssb driver and ssb ID to the b43
driver. Here's the result:

ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:00.0 disabled
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:04:00.0 to 64
ssb: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (cc 0x800, rev 0x16, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x0F, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 2 found: PCMCIA (cc 0x80D, rev 0x0A, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 3 found: PCI-E (cc 0x820, rev 0x09, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: WARNING: Invalid SPROM CRC (corrupt SPROM)
ssb: SPROM revision 255 detected.
ssb: Unsupported SPROM revision 255 detected. Will extract v1
ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:04:00.0
b43-phy1: Broadcom 4312 WLAN found
b43-phy1 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 6, Type 5, Revision 1)
b43: probe of ssb0:0 failed with error -95
Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: P, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
Freelance Open-Source Software Developer


2008-09-07 11:53:38

by Gábor Stefanik

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Subject: Re: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> The above adapter is installed in my ACER Extensa 5220, googling around I
> found various references to this chip, the main resume seems to be "works
> only with ndiswrapper." Is it true and if it is ATM, is it going to
> change?:-) Any work in progress or plans to support it natively? lspci -vv
> output is at http://home.arcor.de/g.liakhovetski/extensa5220/.
>
> Tried brutally adding the PCI ID to the ssb driver and ssb ID to the b43
> driver. Here's the result:
>
> ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:00.0 disabled
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:04:00.0 to 64
> ssb: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (cc 0x800, rev 0x16, vendor 0x4243)
> ssb: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x0F, vendor 0x4243)
> ssb: Core 2 found: PCMCIA (cc 0x80D, rev 0x0A, vendor 0x4243)
> ssb: Core 3 found: PCI-E (cc 0x820, rev 0x09, vendor 0x4243)
> ssb: WARNING: Invalid SPROM CRC (corrupt SPROM)
> ssb: SPROM revision 255 detected.
> ssb: Unsupported SPROM revision 255 detected. Will extract v1
> ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:04:00.0
> b43-phy1: Broadcom 4312 WLAN found
> b43-phy1 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 6, Type 5, Revision 1)
> b43: probe of ssb0:0 failed with error -95
> Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: P, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
>
> Thanks
> Guennadi
> ---
> Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
> Freelance Open-Source Software Developer

This card (BCM4310/4312) is a new low-power (LP-PHY) card, which is
not yet supported. Work on this card is ongoing, but no official
timeframe exists. (Hopefully it will make 2.6.28 or .29.)

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2008-09-07 12:02:26

by Michael Büsch

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Subject: Re: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller

On Sunday 07 September 2008 13:53:37 Stefanik G=E1bor wrote:
> (Hopefully it will make 2.6.28 or .29.)

No way. There's no published specs and no code.

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Greetings Michael.