Status of Broadcom 4353?

Status of Broadcom 4353?

[Chen, Xianwen]

Hi there,

Thanks for keeping up good work on wireless support in Linux all these
years. I can still recall the joy when Realtek 8187 became part of
kernel supported driver a few years ago -- it actually was the main
reason I switched from NetBSD to Linux.

I now have a laptop from my employer, on which I sneaked Linux in. The
issue is that the wireless adapter seems not to be recognized:

lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
>> 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:4353] (rev 01)

Though the new Broadcom driver seems to be more appropriate, I
actually compiled both the old and the new drivers. Further reading on
  http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm8021
and
  http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
suggests that 4353 is not currently supported! :-(

What is the current status of Broadcom 4353? I'm curious and actually
eager to know. Any information will be appreciated!

Have a good day fellas!

Xianwen

Re: Status of Broadcom 4353?

[Larry Finger]

On 03/10/2011 12:37 PM, Chen, Xianwen wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Thanks for keeping up good work on wireless support in Linux all these
> years. I can still recall the joy when Realtek 8187 became part of
> kernel supported driver a few years ago -- it actually was the main
> reason I switched from NetBSD to Linux.
>
> I now have a laptop from my employer, on which I sneaked Linux in. The
> issue is that the wireless adapter seems not to be recognized:
>
> lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
>>> 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:4353] (rev 01)
>
> Though the new Broadcom driver seems to be more appropriate, I
> actually compiled both the old and the new drivers. Further reading on
>    http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm8021
> and
>    http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
> suggests that 4353 is not currently supported! :-(
>
> What is the current status of Broadcom 4353? I'm curious and actually
> eager to know. Any information will be appreciated!
>
> Have a good day fellas!

There are two ways that Broadcom chips are connected to a PCIe interface - one 
uses the SSB interconnect, and the other does not. In b43, only chips with SSB 
are supported. As the 4353 device does not use SSB, b43 does not work with it. 
Whether it ever will is being discussed.

You should use either the brcm80211 driver from compat-wireless or kernels 
2.6.37, or later. You may also use the wl driver from Broadcom if you are 
willing to run closed-source software. That driver does not use mac80211.

Larry

RE: Status of Broadcom 4353?

[Brett Rudley]

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Re: Status of Broadcom 4353?

[Chen, Xianwen]

Thanks a lot guys!

I tried both latest stable kernel (linux-2.6.37) and latest mainline
kernel (linux-2.6.38-rc8) with
  CONFIG_BRCM80211=y
  CONFIG_BRCM80211_PCI=y
. No wlan0 turns up yet.

Any more hint please?

Xianwen


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com> wrote:
> Its not intuitive, but 0x4353 is the PCI device ID of the 43224 dual band card which does run under brcm80211.
>
> Regards
> Brett


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
> There are two ways that Broadcom chips are connected to a PCIe interface -
> one uses the SSB interconnect, and the other does not. In b43, only chips
> with SSB are supported. As the 4353 device does not use SSB, b43 does not
> work with it. Whether it ever will is being discussed.
>
> You should use either the brcm80211 driver from compat-wireless or kernels
> 2.6.37, or later. You may also use the wl driver from Broadcom if you are
> willing to run closed-source software. That driver does not use mac80211.
>
> Larry

RE: Status of Broadcom 4353?

[Chaoxing Lin]

Is it possible that the firmware file your card needs is not in your Linux distribution? Upgrading kernel does not give you firmware file.

Usually, if this is the case, you may see some error log in "dmesg"

Just through a possibility, I don't have broadcom radios. But this scenario happened to me for my Intel "Ultimate N 6300"


-----Original Message-----
From: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Chen, Xianwen
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 6:04 PM
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Status of Broadcom 4353?

Thanks a lot guys!

I tried both latest stable kernel (linux-2.6.37) and latest mainline
kernel (linux-2.6.38-rc8) with
  CONFIG_BRCM80211=y
  CONFIG_BRCM80211_PCI=y
. No wlan0 turns up yet.

Any more hint please?

Xianwen


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com> wrote:
> Its not intuitive, but 0x4353 is the PCI device ID of the 43224 dual band card which does run under brcm80211.
>
> Regards
> Brett


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
> There are two ways that Broadcom chips are connected to a PCIe interface -
> one uses the SSB interconnect, and the other does not. In b43, only chips
> with SSB are supported. As the 4353 device does not use SSB, b43 does not
> work with it. Whether it ever will is being discussed.
>
> You should use either the brcm80211 driver from compat-wireless or kernels
> 2.6.37, or later. You may also use the wl driver from Broadcom if you are
> willing to run closed-source software. That driver does not use mac80211.
>
> Larry
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Re: Status of Broadcom 4353?

[Chen, Xianwen]

Thanks a lot guys!

I revisited http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211, but
did not find the firmware. Am I missing something?

Xianwen


On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Chaoxing Lin <CLin@3eti.com> wrote:
> Is it possible that the firmware file your card needs is not in your Linux distribution? Upgrading kernel does not give you firmware file.
>
> Usually, if this is the case, you may see some error log in "dmesg"
>
> Just through a possibility, I don't have broadcom radios. But this scenario happened to me for my Intel "Ultimate N 6300"
>

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
>
> Firmware?
>
>
>

Re: Status of Broadcom 4353?

[Larry Finger]

On 03/11/2011 09:05 AM, Chen, Xianwen wrote:
> Thanks a lot guys!
>
> I revisited http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211, but
> did not find the firmware. Am I missing something?

The firmware is in the linux-firmware tree. You probably need to install the 
latest package for your distro called "linux firmware" or "kernel firmware". 
Otherwise

git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git

The files you need will be in linux-firmware/brcm. Copy them to /lib/firmware/brcm.

Larry

Re: Status of Broadcom 4353?

[Rafał Miłecki]

2011/3/11 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>:
> On 03/11/2011 09:05 AM, Chen, Xianwen wrote:
>>
>> Thanks a lot guys!
>>
>> I revisited http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211, but
>> did not find the firmware. Am I missing something?
>
> The firmware is in the linux-firmware tree. You probably need to install the
> latest package for your distro called "linux firmware" or "kernel firmware".
> Otherwise
>
> git clone
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git
>
> The files you need will be in linux-firmware/brcm. Copy them to
> /lib/firmware/brcm.

Or just use web gui :)

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=tree;f=brcm;h=883e5732daa040c3c7d39b179c4b4b750db354cd;hb=HEAD

-- 
Rafał

Re: Status of Broadcom 4353?

[Chen, Xianwen]

Thanks a lot Chaoxing, Larry and Rafal,

I installed the Linux firmware (20110128), as you can see by 'ls
/lib/firmware/brcm/ -l'

  total 368
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 269595 Mar 11 16:57 bcm4329-fullmac-4-218-248-5.bin
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1604 Mar 11 16:57 bcm4329-fullmac-4-218-248-5.txt
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  97376 Mar 11 16:57 bcm43xx-0-610-809-0.fw
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    180 Mar 11 16:57 bcm43xx_hdr-0-610-809-0.fw

However, after rebooting and even after recompiling and rebooting the
kernel, the wireless adapter doesn't yet show up.

Hence, I decide to give more details on the problem, to see if
something is missing:

(1) The Dell Latitude E5410 is running Gentoo AMD64 with all packages
up to date.

(2) The latest 2.6.38-rc8 kernel is used.

(3) The kernel config can be seen at http://pastebin.com/ExAzLHr8.

(4) The dmesg is uploaded to http://pastebin.com/wV3Wp54r.

(5) The output from lspci is at http://pastebin.com/Giqs7kkA.

Any thoughts, please?

Xianwen


2011/3/11 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>:
> 2011/3/11 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>:
>> On 03/11/2011 09:05 AM, Chen, Xianwen wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot guys!
>>>
>>> I revisited http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211, but
>>> did not find the firmware. Am I missing something?
>>
>> The firmware is in the linux-firmware tree. You probably need to install the
>> latest package for your distro called "linux firmware" or "kernel firmware".
>> Otherwise
>>
>> git clone
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git
>>
>> The files you need will be in linux-firmware/brcm. Copy them to
>> /lib/firmware/brcm.
>
> Or just use web gui :)
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=tree;f=brcm;h=883e5732daa040c3c7d39b179c4b4b750db354cd;hb=HEAD
>
> --
> Rafał
>

RE: Status of Broadcom 4353?

[Chaoxing Lin]

Try to put firmware in 
/lib/firmware/ instead of /lib/firmware/brcm/ which is the located in the git tree, but NOT necessarily the location the driver is looking for.


-----Original Message-----
From: Chen, Xianwen [mailto:xianwen.chen@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 11:43 AM
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Larry Finger; Rafał Miłecki; Chaoxing Lin; Brett Rudley
Subject: Re: Status of Broadcom 4353?

Thanks a lot Chaoxing, Larry and Rafal,

I installed the Linux firmware (20110128), as you can see by 'ls
/lib/firmware/brcm/ -l'

  total 368
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 269595 Mar 11 16:57 bcm4329-fullmac-4-218-248-5.bin
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1604 Mar 11 16:57 bcm4329-fullmac-4-218-248-5.txt
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  97376 Mar 11 16:57 bcm43xx-0-610-809-0.fw
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    180 Mar 11 16:57 bcm43xx_hdr-0-610-809-0.fw

However, after rebooting and even after recompiling and rebooting the
kernel, the wireless adapter doesn't yet show up.

Hence, I decide to give more details on the problem, to see if
something is missing:

(1) The Dell Latitude E5410 is running Gentoo AMD64 with all packages
up to date.

(2) The latest 2.6.38-rc8 kernel is used.

(3) The kernel config can be seen at http://pastebin.com/ExAzLHr8.

(4) The dmesg is uploaded to http://pastebin.com/wV3Wp54r.

(5) The output from lspci is at http://pastebin.com/Giqs7kkA.

Any thoughts, please?

Xianwen


2011/3/11 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>:
> 2011/3/11 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>:
>> On 03/11/2011 09:05 AM, Chen, Xianwen wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot guys!
>>>
>>> I revisited http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211, but
>>> did not find the firmware. Am I missing something?
>>
>> The firmware is in the linux-firmware tree. You probably need to install the
>> latest package for your distro called "linux firmware" or "kernel firmware".
>> Otherwise
>>
>> git clone
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git
>>
>> The files you need will be in linux-firmware/brcm. Copy them to
>> /lib/firmware/brcm.
>
> Or just use web gui :)
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=tree;f=brcm;h=883e5732daa040c3c7d39b179c4b4b750db354cd;hb=HEAD
>
> --
> Rafał
>

Re: Status of Broadcom 4353?

[Rafał Miłecki]

2011/3/11 Chen, Xianwen <xianwen.chen@gmail.com>:
> Thanks a lot Chaoxing, Larry and Rafal,
>
> I installed the Linux firmware (20110128), as you can see by 'ls
> /lib/firmware/brcm/ -l'
>
>  total 368
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 269595 Mar 11 16:57 bcm4329-fullmac-4-218-248-5.bin
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1604 Mar 11 16:57 bcm4329-fullmac-4-218-248-5.txt
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  97376 Mar 11 16:57 bcm43xx-0-610-809-0.fw
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    180 Mar 11 16:57 bcm43xx_hdr-0-610-809-0.fw
>
> However, after rebooting and even after recompiling and rebooting the
> kernel, the wireless adapter doesn't yet show up.
>
> Hence, I decide to give more details on the problem, to see if
> something is missing:
>
> (1) The Dell Latitude E5410 is running Gentoo AMD64 with all packages
> up to date.
>
> (2) The latest 2.6.38-rc8 kernel is used.
>
> (3) The kernel config can be seen at http://pastebin.com/ExAzLHr8.
>
> (4) The dmesg is uploaded to http://pastebin.com/wV3Wp54r.
>
> (5) The output from lspci is at http://pastebin.com/Giqs7kkA.
>
> Any thoughts, please?

1) Update your pci db (sudo update-pciids)
2) Reboot maybe? I don't know if this is needed for lspci
3) Give us lspci -nn
4) Give us "lsmod | grep brcm80211"
5) Execute: "sudo modprobe brcm80211"
6) Give us "dmesg | grep brcm80211"

-- 
Rafał

Re: Status of Broadcom 4353?

[Rafał Miłecki]

W dniu 11 marca 2011 17:58 użytkownik Chaoxing Lin <CLin@3eti.com> napisał:
> Try to put firmware in
> /lib/firmware/ instead of /lib/firmware/brcm/ which is the located in the git tree, but NOT necessarily the location the driver is looking for.

It is. Please, don't mess.

-- 
Rafał

Re: Status of Broadcom 4353?

[Henry Ptasinski]

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RE: Status of Broadcom 4353?

[Chaoxing Lin]

Well, just throw some ideas. Not mean to mess.
Older Broadcom driver did put firmware in /lib/firmware/ e.g. BCM2033-FW.bin

-----Original Message-----
From: Rafał Miłecki [mailto:zajec5@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 12:02 PM
To: Chaoxing Lin
Cc: Chen, Xianwen; linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Larry Finger; Brett Rudley
Subject: Re: Status of Broadcom 4353?

W dniu 11 marca 2011 17:58 użytkownik Chaoxing Lin <CLin@3eti.com> napisał:
> Try to put firmware in
> /lib/firmware/ instead of /lib/firmware/brcm/ which is the located in the git tree, but NOT necessarily the location the driver is looking for.

It is. Please, don't mess.

-- 
Rafał

Re: Status of Broadcom 4353?

[Rafał Miłecki]

W dniu 11 marca 2011 18:21 użytkownik Chaoxing Lin <CLin@3eti.com> napisał:
> Well, just throw some ideas. Not mean to mess.
> Older Broadcom driver did put firmware in /lib/firmware/ e.g. BCM2033-FW.bin

I had no idea about that, sorry. Newest driver looks in brcm subdir,
I'm sure of that.

-- 
Rafał

Re: Status of Broadcom 4353?

[Henry Ptasinski]

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Re: Status of Broadcom 4353?

[Chen, Xianwen]

Hi guys,

Thanks a lot to all of you! wlan1 showed up after renaming the two files. :D

Henry, there is a typo that it needs to "be bcm43xx-0.fw", not
"bcm43xx--0.fw". Thanks!

Rafal, "dmesg | grep "brcm80211"" really helped locating the issue!
BTW, rebooting is not required after updating PCI information
database. Thanks!

Chaoxing, thanks for the efforts! I really appreciate them too!

Have a nice weekend fellas! ;p

Xianwen

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Henry Ptasinski <henryp@broadcom.com> wrote:
> Try:
>
> ln -s bcm43xx-0-610-809-0.fw bcm43xx--0.fw
> ln -s bcm43xx_hdr-0-610-809-0.fw bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw
>
> (Or just rename the files).
>
> We dropped the release numbers from the filenames a while ago. I sent a patch to rename the files in the repo, but I don't think it ever got applied.
>
> - Henry
>
> Henry Ptasinski
> henryp@broadcom.com
>