Return-path: Received: from server19320154104.serverpool.info ([193.201.54.104]:38318 "EHLO hauke-m.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757430Ab2FYVhD (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:37:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4FE8D9F7.7070707@hauke-m.de> (sfid-20120625_233708_296803_6BBA5A50) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:36:55 +0200 From: Hauke Mehrtens MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= CC: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli , Larry Finger , Brett Rudley , Arend van Spriel , "Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" , Kan Yan , wireless , brcm80211-dev-list@broadcom.com Subject: Re: Question about BCM43228 and outdated description in MAINTAINERS References: <4FE886B3.7020202@lwfinger.net> <4FE88E1A.9050202@hauke-m.de> <1340654635.3413.19.camel@gnutoo-hplaptop> <4FE8C89E.8040607@hauke-m.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/25/2012 11:25 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > 2012/6/25 Hauke Mehrtens : >> On 06/25/2012 10:03 PM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: >>> On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 18:13 +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: >>>> Add support for more chips, including (near term) BCM43227, BCM43228, >>>> and BCM4331. Support for additional new chips to follow. >>> What about the BCM43231? >>> There was some plans about it: >>> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/b43-dev/2012-January/002297.html >>> >>> But the thread ends and then it seem that nothing was achieved. >>> >>> I've a BCM43231: >>> Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0846:9020 NetGear, Inc. WNA3100(v1) Wireless-N >>> 300 [Broadcom BCM43231] >>> >>> Are there some wireless kernels developers in Italy or in France that >>> would accept a bcm43231 card in exchange of working on a driver? >>> >>> Denis. >> >> I just found a driver for "Dongle BUS interface for USB, SDIO, SPI, >> etc." which seams to also support the BCM43231 licensed under a >> permissive license in the GPL source tar of the ASUS RT-AC66U. [0] I >> haven't found the firmware for that specific device, but someone could >> try to get that driver running with a normal Linux kernel. I am also >> interested in that as I have a USB device in my router not supported by >> brcmfmac. >> Currently I do not have time for that, but I will probably have a closer >> look into that driver soon. >> >> Hauke >> >> [0] asuswrt/release/src-rt-6.x/shared/dbus* > > I suspect 0846:9020 can be *not* a BCM43231. I discovered some other > chipset on this USB dongle when hacking it with brcmfmac. If I > remember correctly it was 4322. Sounds a little weird, as we already > know softmac BCM4322 with N-PHY, I don't know if there is any relation > between softmac 4322 and fullmac 4322. I have two BCM4322 soldered on a board of a router (Linksys WRT610N V1) and connected via PCI to the main Chip (BCM4705/BCM4785). My BCM4322 has a ARM Cortex M3 core, a USB host core, a PCI and a PCIe core in addition to the "normal cores". My BCM4322 is running as a softmac device and is supported by b43 and ssb, 2.4 Ghz wifi is working. This chip is probably capable of running in softmac mode on a PCI or PCIe card or in fullmac mode in a USB dongle, at least that's my explanation for the ARM core on this device. Hauke