b43 does not work on broadcom 43227

b43 does not work on broadcom 43227

[Eloy Anguiano]

Dear developers,

Perhaps this is not a bug because my card is not probed. I have a
Broadcom 43227 and the wireless does not work at all. I need your driver
to activate it as a AP, but as far as I know, is imposible at this
moment. Then I will use Broadcom driver waiting to your next
developments. I say you because I think that developers need some
feedback, for free software development.

Thank you,

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b43 does not work on broadcom 43227

[Larry Finger]

On 07/08/2012 04:27 PM, Eloy Anguiano wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
> Perhaps this is not a bug because my card is not probed. I have a
> Broadcom 43227 and the wireless does not work at all. I need your driver
> to activate it as a AP, but as far as I know, is imposible at this
> moment. Then I will use Broadcom driver waiting to your next
> developments. I say you because I think that developers need some
> feedback, for free software development.

As you guessed, it is not a bug as support for that device has never been 
enabled. I think your device will use bcma just as my BCM43228 does. I have 
started developing the patches needed to implement it with b43; however, I have 
not gotten very far. Could you please confirm that the the PCI ID is 14e4:4358? 
If that is correct, could you also try the attached patch and report the info 
that is logged in the dmesg output?

I think that Broadcom will be changing brcmsmac to support these devices, but my 
understanding is that they are concentrating on fullmac devices at the moment.

Larry
-------------- next part --------------
Index: wireless-testing-new/drivers/bcma/host_pci.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-testing-new.orig/drivers/bcma/host_pci.c
+++ wireless-testing-new/drivers/bcma/host_pci.c
@@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ static DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE(bcma_pci_
 	{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_BROADCOM, 0x4331) },
 	{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_BROADCOM, 0x4353) },
 	{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_BROADCOM, 0x4357) },
+	{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_BROADCOM, 0x4738) },
 	{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_BROADCOM, 0x4727) },
 	{ 0, },
 };

b43 does not work on broadcom 43227

[Arend van Spriel]

On 07/09/2012 12:31 AM, Larry Finger wrote:
> I think that Broadcom will be changing brcmsmac to support these
> devices, but my understanding is that they are concentrating on fullmac
> devices at the moment.
> 
> Larry

That is correct. The bcm43227 is very similar to the bcm43228, the
difference being the supported bands. I have not heard back since I
forwarded your questions on 43228 support in brcmsmac. So for now I can
only say that bcm43227 and bcm43228 will be added in one patch.

Gr. AvS