Return-path: Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.169]:47987 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753127AbYIGLxi (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2008 07:53:38 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 27so1150685wfd.4 for ; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:53:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <69e28c910809070453h7264f599hc829b9e1bebdf1f1@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20080907_135342_680451_41543687) Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 13:53:37 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Stefanik_G=E1bor?=" To: "Guennadi Liakhovetski" Subject: Re: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski 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.) -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-)