Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com ([209.85.212.172]:54126 "EHLO mail-wi0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756633Ab2FYVZE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:25:04 -0400 Received: by wibhm11 with SMTP id hm11so3449747wib.1 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:25:03 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4FE8C89E.8040607@hauke-m.de> References: <4FE886B3.7020202@lwfinger.net> <4FE88E1A.9050202@hauke-m.de> <1340654635.3413.19.camel@gnutoo-hplaptop> <4FE8C89E.8040607@hauke-m.de> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:25:03 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20120625_232510_732552_A041AF4A) Subject: Re: Question about BCM43228 and outdated description in MAINTAINERS From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= To: Hauke Mehrtens Cc: "Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli" , Larry Finger , Brett Rudley , Arend van Spriel , "Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" , Kan Yan , wireless , brcm80211-dev-list@broadcom.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- Rafał