BCM4360 support

BCM4360 support

[ockham at raz.or.at]

Hi,

I recently got a new MacBook Pro Retina (15"), which comes with a  
Broadcom 4360 Wifi:

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4360  
802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03)

I installed Fedora 21 on it. Getting Wifi up and running was sort of a  
PITA, as it required installing the kmod-wl RPM via an USB stick [1].

Can I, as a user, contribute to having the b43 kernel module support  
BCM4360 [2], e.g. by testing stuff?

Regards
Bernhard

[1]  
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/34399/running-broadcom-bcm4630-on-fedora-19/
[2]  
http://linuxwireless.sipsolutions.net/en/users/Drivers/b43/#Supported_devices

BCM4360 support

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 17 February 2015 at 16:40,  <ockham@raz.or.at> wrote:
> I recently got a new MacBook Pro Retina (15"), which comes with a Broadcom
> 4360 Wifi:
>
> 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4360 802.11ac
> Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03)
>
> I installed Fedora 21 on it. Getting Wifi up and running was sort of a PITA,
> as it required installing the kmod-wl RPM via an USB stick [1].
>
> Can I, as a user, contribute to having the b43 kernel module support BCM4360
> [2], e.g. by testing stuff?

Not really. I already have some AC-PHY hardware, once I get it
running, it may be useful to test other models as well. But today
we're still far away from getting it running.

There were some *early* changes to start AC-PHY development like:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3c313161353ad527de1a6ecde0f0d41700858fd6
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8be08a39d498d5d93ff5149276e34ccb4ec3757f
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=86144b01a25185ec092b9301e340ca4f7a8c0d92
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3f7bb3f34cc880bc35f6c278be16cd8afee7c524
but really, it's just a beginning. It will still take a lot of time to
get anything testable.

BCM4360 support

[Sven Köhler]

Am 17.02.2015 um 17:57 schrieb Rafa? Mi?ecki:
> On 17 February 2015 at 16:40,  <ockham-wpgQ8x317gheoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> I recently got a new MacBook Pro Retina (15"), which comes with a Broadcom
>> 4360 Wifi:
>>
>> 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4360 802.11ac
>> Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03)
>>
>> I installed Fedora 21 on it. Getting Wifi up and running was sort of a PITA,
>> as it required installing the kmod-wl RPM via an USB stick [1].
>>
>> Can I, as a user, contribute to having the b43 kernel module support BCM4360
>> [2], e.g. by testing stuff?
> 
> Not really. I already have some AC-PHY hardware, once I get it
> running, it may be useful to test other models as well. But today
> we're still far away from getting it running.

It would help if we get anything usable, even if it was limited to
802.11g or 802.11n. Does that make things simpler? Or are AC-PHYs simply
that different from previous ones?

Note that Broadcom's wl driver isn't that good either. I cannot get a
stable connection to my access point at 802.11n. I see dramatic
increases in ping time here and there. I had to downgrade my AP to
802.11g. I never tested 802.11ac performance.


Regards,
  Sven

BCM4360 support

[Evgeniy Dushistov]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 04:40:26PM +0100, ockham at raz.or.at wrote:
> 
> I recently got a new MacBook Pro Retina (15"), which comes with a  
> Broadcom 4360 Wifi:

Intresting, I also have MacBook Pro Retina (but 1 year old),
with Broadcom 4331 wifi, and it works fine with b43.

-- 
/Evgeniy

BCM4360 support

[Moro Modo]

Hello everyone,

I've bought a new PCE-AC68 from Asus. It uses the BCM4360. I wanted to
know, if you guys are up to a solution to support this device? If not,
how much effort would it take to learn and adjust the driver by myself
to make it work? I'm used to program in C, but I don't know anything
about the hardware in particular.

Looking forward to your answer ;)

BCM4360 support

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

Am 10.09.2015 um 00:49 schrieb Moro Modo:
> I've bought a new PCE-AC68 from Asus. It uses the BCM4360. I wanted to
> know, if you guys are up to a solution to support this device?

I would like to know that too. I have an ASUS Notebook which uses a
BCM4360 based card. I have to use Broadcom's driver, which doesn't even
work that great, especially if I enable 802.11n on my access point.

I would appreciate a driver that only supports 802.11g or even 802.11n
but lacks 802.11ac support, hoping that this makes things easier.



Regards,
  Sven

BCM4360 support

[Kyle Sanderson]

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig?v=4.1#L169

I have a router with this device that runs on ARM, admittedly I
haven't had a moment to try it out. It does say broken in the KConfig,
however there are other comments that seem to support it. YMMV.

Kyle.

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Sven K?hler <sven.koehler@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 10.09.2015 um 00:49 schrieb Moro Modo:
>> I've bought a new PCE-AC68 from Asus. It uses the BCM4360. I wanted to
>> know, if you guys are up to a solution to support this device?
>
> I would like to know that too. I have an ASUS Notebook which uses a
> BCM4360 based card. I have to use Broadcom's driver, which doesn't even
> work that great, especially if I enable 802.11n on my access point.
>
> I would appreciate a driver that only supports 802.11g or even 802.11n
> but lacks 802.11ac support, hoping that this makes things easier.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>   Sven
>
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