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From: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Wireless Problem
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 20:38:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F34209E.5090704@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACna6rxanokAjM4Jy-7C9SFk89Bepn6p3+GM0kduLxaP0y37GQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 02/09/2012 08:17 PM, Rafa? Mi?ecki wrote:
> 2012/2/9 Vince Radice <vhradice@cfl.rr.com>:
>>    I am having a problem trying to get a Netgear WNA3100 adapter working.  I
>> have probably been through 100+ posts and threads trying to figure out what
>> is happening.  I have attached two files.  One contains the output from
>> dmesg.  The other has the output from several commands as requested in the
>> doc.
> 
> This is BCM43231, fullmac device, nothing to-be-covered by b43 driver.
> The driver that may support this chipset is brcmfmac, but for now only
> support for BCM4329, BCM4330 and BCM43236 was recently-added. I think
> I remember Arend saying they are not working on support for BCM43231
> for now. I may be wrong however.

You are correct.

> We could try hacking support for this chipset by just extracting
> firmware for BCM43231 and adding proper USB ID in brcmfmac. I don't
> think anyone is working on this.
> 

I believe the API between driver and firmware is different so expect
problems doing that. I can inform just how different.

Gr. AvS

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-09 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-09 19:00 Wireless Problem Vince Radice
2012-02-09 19:17 ` Rafał Miłecki
2012-02-09 19:38   ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2012-02-09 20:55     ` Vince Radice
2012-02-10  6:13       ` Rafał Miłecki

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