BCM43228 support

BCM43228 support

[Lucas Stach]

Hello all,

I've bought a laptop with a BCM43228 wireless chipset. This is currently
only supported by the broadcom_sta driver.

What would be needed to support this chipset within the free B43 driver?
I'm a developer myself and would like to know how much effort has to be
spend to get things working and what has to be done specifically.

Regards,
Lucas

bcm43228 support

[Vasiliy Tolstov]

Hello. I'm newbie in this list =).
I'm search from google and mailing list  but can't fully understand:
does bcma from wireless git tree support bcm43228?
I don't like broadcom sta because it closed source (big blob) and
require some steps to get works (manual download compile and so), that
is not possible from live cd.
Does it possible to get working wifi with opensource driver and
connect to wpa-psk?

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Re: bcm43228 support

[Larry Finger]

On 04/08/2013 08:10 AM, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> Hello. I'm newbie in this list =).
> I'm search from google and mailing list  but can't fully understand:
> does bcma from wireless git tree support bcm43228?
> I don't like broadcom sta because it closed source (big blob) and
> require some steps to get works (manual download compile and so), that
> is not possible from live cd.
> Does it possible to get working wifi with opensource driver and
> connect to wpa-psk?

According to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_devices, 
the only driver that supports the BCM43228 is the closed-source wl. If your 
device has PCI ID 14e4:4359, then neither brcmsmac nor b43 support it.

The number of devices supported by b43 is limited by the time that we have to 
reverse engineer devices, and a need for an open-source driver. Your device is 
not widely distributed. The Broadcom people will need to say why they choose not 
to implement this device.

If you need a wireless adapter for use with a Live CD, I suggest one of the 
popular USB devices.

Larry

Re: bcm43228 support

[Vasiliy Tolstov]

2013/4/8 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>:
> According to
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_devices, the only
> driver that supports the BCM43228 is the closed-source wl. If your device
> has PCI ID 14e4:4359, then neither brcmsmac nor b43 support it.
>
> The number of devices supported by b43 is limited by the time that we have
> to reverse engineer devices, and a need for an open-source driver. Your
> device is not widely distributed. The Broadcom people will need to say why
> they choose not to implement this device.
>
> If you need a wireless adapter for use with a Live CD, I suggest one of the
> popular USB devices.


I'm already read this link, but may be info is outdated and opensource
drivers for 43228 is available. Now broadcom-sta wl river works very
bad on my acer aspire v5.

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Vasiliy Tolstov,
e-mail: v.tolstov@selfip.ru
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Re: bcm43228 support

[Larry Finger]

On 04/08/2013 01:46 PM, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> 2013/4/8 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>:
>> According to
>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_devices, the only
>> driver that supports the BCM43228 is the closed-source wl. If your device
>> has PCI ID 14e4:4359, then neither brcmsmac nor b43 support it.
>>
>> The number of devices supported by b43 is limited by the time that we have
>> to reverse engineer devices, and a need for an open-source driver. Your
>> device is not widely distributed. The Broadcom people will need to say why
>> they choose not to implement this device.
>>
>> If you need a wireless adapter for use with a Live CD, I suggest one of the
>> popular USB devices.
>
>
> I'm already read this link, but may be info is outdated and opensource
> drivers for 43228 is available. Now broadcom-sta wl river works very
> bad on my acer aspire v5.

The only way to know is to search the kernel source for the appropriate PCI ID. 
As you did not provide that for your device, I had to guess. I might have done 
that incorrectly, but if I tried the correct one, the current wireless-testing 
does not support your device.

Sorry about faulty operation of wl, but there is nothing we can do about that.

Larry