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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: b43-dev <b43-dev@lists.infradead.org>,
	Abimanyu Gottumukkala <me@abimanyu.in>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: BCM43231
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:18:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0B67BA.20207@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACna6rzNrFWBJ+n3n9wrnP_Gi3LKCWt+o1Gs38_EjkMgG_k8vg@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/09/2012 02:12 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2011/12/30 Abimanyu Gottumukkala<me@abimanyu.in>:
>> Does any one have status or any info on BCM43231 USB drivers?
>
> I've received my WNA3100, 0846:9020 (maybe BCM43231, can't confirm).
>
> It works with ndiswrapper and bcmwlhigh6, I can scan and even connect
> to my WPA2 network.
>
> Unfortunately I've no idea what hardware is this. I've dumped
> ndiswrapper USB operations but they don't tell me a single thing.
> Initialization is represented by only ~1000 lines in dumps and I've
> connected in next ~1500 lines of USB dump. I've been using "usbmon" to
> dump traffic.

The evidence points to some kind of Broadcom chip. The USB data base says that 
an ID of "0846:9020" is a "WNA3100(v1) Wireless-N 300 [Broadcom BCM43231]". In 
addition, the Windows driver name of bcmwlhigh6 indicates a BroadCoM WL driver 
of some sort. Given the relatively small amount of initialization traffic, it 
must be a fullmac device that likely does not need external firmware.

I remember seeing some mail about the Broadcom guys working on a Linux driver 
for a USB fullmac device. Is this the one? (I added Arend to the Cc.)

Larry

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-09 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-30 12:58 BCM43231 Abimanyu Gottumukkala
2011-12-31 16:46 ` BCM43231 Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-09 20:12 ` BCM43231 Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-09 22:18   ` Larry Finger [this message]
2012-01-10 11:07     ` BCM43231 Arend van Spriel
2012-01-10 11:14       ` BCM43231 Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-10 12:17         ` BCM43231 Arend van Spriel
2012-01-09 21:31 ` BCM43231 Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-09 22:25   ` BCM43231 Peter Stuge
2012-01-09 22:28     ` BCM43231 Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-09 23:14       ` BCM43231 Gábor Stefanik
2012-01-10  7:00     ` BCM43231 Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-10  7:29       ` BCM43231 Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-10  9:36         ` BCM43231 Michael Büsch
2012-01-10 16:59           ` BCM43231 Peter Stuge

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