Hi,
I've recently picked up a MacBook Pro 8,1. Its onboard wireless is a
Broadcom 4331, which appears to be a very new chipset. Has work begun
on support for this device, and if not, what help can I provide to get
work started on it (as a non-kernel developerey type)?
Thanks,
--Chris
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P.P.S lspci -vnn output:
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device
[14e4:4331] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device [106b:00d6]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at a0600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
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2011/3/15 Chris Neugebauer <[email protected]>:
> I've recently picked up a MacBook Pro 8,1. Its onboard wireless is a
> Broadcom 4331, which appears to be a very new chipset. Has work begun
> on support for this device, and if not, what help can I provide to get
> work started on it (as a non-kernel developerey type)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Chris
>
> P.S. Please CC me as I'm not on this list.
>
> P.P.S lspci -vnn output:
>
> 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device
> [14e4:4331] (rev 02)
> Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device [106b:00d6]
> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
> Memory at a0600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
bcmdevs.h:
#define BCM4331_D11N_ID 0x4331 /* 4331 802.11n dualband id */
#define BCM4331_D11N2G_ID 0x4332 /* 4331 802.11n 2.4Ghz band id */
#define BCM4331_D11N5G_ID 0x4333 /* 4331 802.11n 5Ghz band id */
So yes, it looks like new BCM4331 chipset. AFAIK there is no support
for it in wl. Plus no support in b43 or brcm80211.
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Rafał
>
> So yes, it looks like new BCM4331 chipset. AFAIK there is no support
> for it in wl. Plus no support in b43 or brcm80211.
>
Any news? I also looking for a linux driver for the 4331 and have had no luck
with wl.
Steve
On 04/25/2011 11:38 AM, Steve wrote:
>>
>> So yes, it looks like new BCM4331 chipset. AFAIK there is no support
>> for it in wl. Plus no support in b43 or brcm80211.
>>
>
> Any news? I also looking for a linux driver for the 4331 and have had no luck
> with wl.
> Steve
We have plans to support the BCM4331, and other new chips, with the
brcmsmac driver. I don't have an ETA, but new chip support is the first
thing on the priority list after getting the brcmsmac driver out of staging.
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Henry Ptasinski
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2011/5/13 woto <[email protected]>:
> Interesting too... :(
I just managed to add bcma driver (few days ago), now I have to add
support for bcma in b43. Without this we can not really think about
implementing BCM4331 support.
Still, even if we will have above part done, we need some reference
code/driver. AFAIK there is no Linux driver. Did you try using
ndiswrapper and Windows driver? Does it work?
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Rafał