From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
To: "F. LECAILLE" <flc@netgem.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: broadcom 43236B USB module
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 10:53:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB21985.9090306@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FB2033B.4070701@netgem.com>
On 05/15/2012 09:18 AM, F. LECAILLE wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have some Wifi USB modules with 43236B Broadcom chipset. I have read on the
> linuxwireless dot org website that this chipset is supported by the brcmfmac
> *(USB)* driver.
>
> As I am also trying to backport this driver for an embedded device which runs a
> 2.6.27 kernel, I had a look to the 3.2 kernel sources and especially to the
> drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac directory. But I do not find any
> reference to USB stack kernel functions.
>
> How may this work?
It works by being patient. USB support was merged upstream in the
previous merge window so it is present in the current 3.4-rcX releases.
If you want to backport I suggest to use compat-wireless (see [1]) as it
does a lot of work for you.
Gr. AvS
[1] http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-15 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-15 7:18 broadcom 43236B USB module F. LECAILLE
2012-05-15 8:53 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2012-05-15 8:59 ` F. LECAILLE
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