Broadcom 4331 wireless device

Broadcom 4331 wireless device

[Chris Neugebauer]

Hi,

I've recently picked up a MacBook Pro 8,1.  Its onboard wireless is a
Broadcom 4331, which appears to be a very new chipset.  Has work begun
on support for this device, and if not, what help can I provide to get
work started on it (as a non-kernel developerey type)?

Thanks,

--Chris

P.S. Please CC me as I'm not on this list.

P.P.S lspci -vnn output:

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device
[14e4:4331] (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device [106b:00d6]
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
        Memory at a0600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]



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Re: Broadcom 4331 wireless device

[Arend van Spriel]

Chris Neugebauer <chrisjrn@...> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've recently picked up a MacBook Pro 8,1.  Its onboard wireless is a
> Broadcom 4331, which appears to be a very new chipset.  Has work begun
> on support for this device, and if not, what help can I provide to get
> work started on it (as a non-kernel developerey type)?

I would assume the MacOS does support this chipset already. Are you looking
for a linux driver for this device?

Gr. AvS

Re: Broadcom 4331 wireless device

[Rafał Miłecki]

2011/3/15 Chris Neugebauer <chrisjrn@gmail.com>:
> I've recently picked up a MacBook Pro 8,1.  Its onboard wireless is a
> Broadcom 4331, which appears to be a very new chipset.  Has work begun
> on support for this device, and if not, what help can I provide to get
> work started on it (as a non-kernel developerey type)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Chris
>
> P.S. Please CC me as I'm not on this list.
>
> P.P.S lspci -vnn output:
>
> 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation Device
> [14e4:4331] (rev 02)
>        Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device [106b:00d6]
>        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
>        Memory at a0600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]

bcmdevs.h:
#define BCM4331_D11N_ID         0x4331  /* 4331 802.11n dualband id */
#define BCM4331_D11N2G_ID       0x4332  /* 4331 802.11n 2.4Ghz band id */
#define BCM4331_D11N5G_ID       0x4333  /* 4331 802.11n 5Ghz band id */

So yes, it looks like new BCM4331 chipset. AFAIK there is no support
for it in wl. Plus no support in b43 or brcm80211.

-- 
Rafał

Re: Broadcom 4331 wireless device

[Steve]

> 
> So yes, it looks like new BCM4331 chipset. AFAIK there is no support
> for it in wl. Plus no support in b43 or brcm80211.
> 

Any news? I also looking for a linux driver for the 4331 and have had no luck
with wl.
Steve

Re: Broadcom 4331 wireless device

[woto]

Interesting too... :(

Re: Broadcom 4331 wireless device

[Rafał Miłecki]

2011/5/13 woto <oganer@gmail.com>:
> Interesting too... :(

I just managed to add bcma driver (few days ago), now I have to add
support for bcma in b43. Without this we can not really think about
implementing BCM4331 support.

Still, even if we will have above part done, we need some reference
code/driver. AFAIK there is no Linux driver. Did you try using
ndiswrapper and Windows driver? Does it work?

-- 
Rafał

Re: Broadcom 4331 wireless device

[Henry Ptasinski]

On 04/25/2011 11:38 AM, Steve wrote:
>>
>> So yes, it looks like new BCM4331 chipset. AFAIK there is no support
>> for it in wl. Plus no support in b43 or brcm80211.
>>
>
> Any news? I also looking for a linux driver for the 4331 and have had no luck
> with wl.
> Steve

We have plans to support the BCM4331, and other new chips, with the 
brcmsmac driver.  I don't have an ETA, but new chip support is the first 
thing on the priority list after getting the brcmsmac driver out of staging.

---
Henry Ptasinski
henryp@broadcom.com