From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Finger Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 09:56:44 -0600 Subject: Table of PCIs, chipsets, etc. on b43 wiki page In-Reply-To: References: <4D4C5595.7060903@lwfinger.net> <4D4CC268.2080008@lwfinger.net> Message-ID: <4D4D733C.30906@lwfinger.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org On 02/04/2011 11:56 PM, G?bor Stefanik wrote: > 2011/2/5 Larry Finger : >> On 02/04/2011 02:27 PM, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote: >>> W dniu 4 lutego 2011 20:37 u?ytkownik Larry Finger >>> napisa?: >>>> On 02/04/2011 12:56 PM, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote: >>>>> I'd like to propose little (nothing big) reogranisation of b43 hardware table: >>>>> http://wireless.kernel.org/Zajec?action=recall&rev=4 >>>>> >>>>> Changed columns support/supported and driver/alternatives. >>>>> >>>>> Are you fine with that? Can we use colored one? >>>> >>>> I like the colored one. >>>> >>>> Some small changes: >>>> >>>> I would eliminate the second 14e4:4312 line and move the wl entry to the first >>>> one. I don't know if wl supports 5 GHz on that chip. I don't have mine any longer. >>> >>> Do you know anything about that duplicated ID? Is that true at all? >>> Why we don't support device with that duplicated ID? Why do you want >>> to remove it? >> >> I'm not sure that there really is an 802.11b/g device with ID 14e4:4312. There >> are two flavors of BCM4312, one that is 802.11a/b/g (14e4:4312), and an >> 802.11b/g device with ID 14e4:4315, which is the LP PHY. I suspect that the >> confusion over the two BCM4312 items led to the duplicate entry in this table. > > The device with PCI ID 0x4312 is called BCM4311 (dual-band) - check > Broadcom's official brochure on BCM4311 (has a single-band and a > dual-band version). Same for 0x4319 - it's actually BCM4318 dual-band > (for example, the BCM94318MPAGH has this ID). The only BCM4312 is > 0x4315 (also, there exists no "BCM4315", and while BCM4310 might > indeed be real, it has nothing to do with PCI ID 0x4315). Apparently > the correlation between PCI ID and chip ID only exists for pure G-PHY > cards. > Check Comment #6 in the thread at http://forums.opensuse.org/forums/english/get-technical-help-here/wireless/453614-wireless-card-dormant-until-wired-connection-detected.html. A BCM4312 with ID 14e4:4312. Larry