Return-path: Received: from mail-gw3-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.64]:55646 "EHLO mail-gw3-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755185AbaIZOmw (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:42:52 -0400 Message-ID: <54257B69.3070607@broadcom.com> (sfid-20140926_164300_210064_2D648B03) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:42:49 +0200 From: Arend van Spriel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Tokarev CC: Seth Forshee , , , Subject: Re: BCM4313 & brcmsmac & 3.12: only semi-working? References: <53FDACD1.8090805@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <53FDF8EB.4050905@broadcom.com> <54169D4F.2090607@broadcom.com> <541EEF17.7020806@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <542145B1.4030202@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <54216BF1.3060500@broadcom.com> <20140923134419.GA19016@ubuntu-hedt> <54217AA5.2060803@broadcom.com> <542182BE.2000606@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <542183A6.4070207@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <20140923143124.GC19016@ubuntu-hedt> <54219984.2080601@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <5421AF5C.6000106@broadcom.com> <5421B78E.4050908@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <5422C6E0.3080002@broadcom.com> <8d3f6516-9578-406c-9444-6fe1ba982ea6@email.android.com> <54257779.8010903@msgid.tls.msk.ru> In-Reply-To: <54257779.8010903@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/26/14 16:26, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Okay, so finally, today, without any updates from your side, > I opened up the laptop again and inserted a newly bought > Intel 6235ANHMW card instead of this creaky brcm4313. This > card works right out of the box - plug it in and set up, > both wifi and bluetooth (I had numerous probs with bluetooth > too with brcm card), and it works on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz > bands. Connection is very good and stable, I wasn't able > to trigger a single glitch no matter how hard I tried. Good for you. > My only sorry is a lot of wasted time, efforts and money - > all that have much better value than trying to deal with > non-working drivers. And my only wish is so vendors stop > using non-working parts in their hardware.. But oh well. Being bold here, but would you be willing to send that non-working part of hardware to me. I seem to have 4313 cards over here that just work and it would help greatly investigating the issue. I guess you do not care that much anymore, but might be others do (myself included). Regards, Arend