bcm43236 chipset

bcm43236 chipset

[M. Lambert]

Good morning,

I have seen a couple of posts where reference was made to usb support in
broadcom drivers, and that the code would also support additional
chipsets (such as the bcm43236 but not the 43231) when quote "my testing
here is complete" unquote.

As I have a Linksys AE2500 (13b1:003a) usb dongle, I am very interested
in helping test this functionality no matter how reliable it is, or is
not at this time.  Using Fedora 16 x64, kernel 3.2.2-1 at this time.  I
believe I'd have to build my own kernel to enable bcma support but not
positive about that yet.

If the driver is near a point where testing by others with certain
hardware could be helpful and/or useful I'd be happy to test and provide
any feedback.

Thanks,
Mark 

Re: bcm43236 chipset

[Arend van Spriel]

On 01/29/2012 06:56 PM, M. Lambert wrote:
> Good morning,
> 
> I have seen a couple of posts where reference was made to usb support in
> broadcom drivers, and that the code would also support additional
> chipsets (such as the bcm43236 but not the 43231) when quote "my testing
> here is complete" unquote.

That is my line ;-) I am indeed testing/tinkering on adding USB support
to the brcmfmac driver with bcm43236 as chipset.

> As I have a Linksys AE2500 (13b1:003a) usb dongle, I am very interested
> in helping test this functionality no matter how reliable it is, or is
> not at this time.  Using Fedora 16 x64, kernel 3.2.2-1 at this time.  I
> believe I'd have to build my own kernel to enable bcma support but not
> positive about that yet.

BCMA is only needed for the brcmsmac driver. So no need to enable it.

> If the driver is near a point where testing by others with certain
> hardware could be helpful and/or useful I'd be happy to test and provide
> any feedback.

Thanks. I hope to submit the patch this week.

Gr. AvS