Re: Broadcom USB Dongle Wifi BCM4323

Re: Broadcom USB Dongle Wifi BCM4323

[Arend van Spriel]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 10:18:32 +0100, HiEn <vhpham80@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Arend,
> I've tried but could not find the driver source code (linux) for BCM4323  
> (USB Wifi Dongle).   Could you please give me some advise?
>
> Thanks and best regards,
>

Well, you did not find it because there is no open-source support for it.  
Both b43 and brcm80211 drivers do not provide usb support (see table at  
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Known_PCI_devices). It is  
suggested to use ndiswrapper, but I guess that is not your goal as you are  
looking for source code.

Gr. AvS
-- 
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the  
human
mind to correlate all its contents." - "The Call of Cthulhu"

Re: Broadcom USB Dongle Wifi BCM4323

[Rafał Miłecki]

2011/3/13 Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>:
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 10:18:32 +0100, HiEn <vhpham80@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Arend,
>> I've tried but could not find the driver source code (linux) for BCM4323
>> (USB Wifi Dongle).   Could you please give me some advise?
>>
>> Thanks and best regards,
>>
>
> Well, you did not find it because there is no open-source support for it.
> Both b43 and brcm80211 drivers do not provide usb support (see table at
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Known_PCI_devices). It is
> suggested to use ndiswrapper, but I guess that is not your goal as you are
> looking for source code.

Does anyone have some hardware knowledge about that card? Is this
standard SSB/AI bus with USB host? Or some totally different hardware?

-- 
Rafał

Re: Broadcom USB Dongle Wifi BCM4323

[Arend van Spriel]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:24:15 +0100, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Does anyone have some hardware knowledge about that card? Is this
> standard SSB/AI bus with USB host? Or some totally different hardware?
>

This is what you can find on the public page:

http://www.broadcom.com/products/Wireless-LAN/802.11-Wireless-LAN-Solutions/BCM4323

We want to add support of more chips to the brcm80211 driver, but for that  
we first have to get into kernel mainline.

Gr. AvS
-- 
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the  
human
mind to correlate all its contents." - "The Call of Cthulhu"

Re: Broadcom USB Dongle Wifi BCM4323

[Rafał Miłecki]

W dniu 14 marca 2011 10:21 użytkownik Arend van Spriel
<arend@broadcom.com> napisał:
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:24:15 +0100, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Does anyone have some hardware knowledge about that card? Is this
>> standard SSB/AI bus with USB host? Or some totally different hardware?
>>
>
> This is what you can find on the public page:
>
> http://www.broadcom.com/products/Wireless-LAN/802.11-Wireless-LAN-Solutions/BCM4323
>
> We want to add support of more chips to the brcm80211 driver, but for that
> we first have to get into kernel mainline.

I don't think official Boardom's website provides much info about
internal hardware layout.

Could you get some more info for us? Is this standard AI board with
ChipCommon, USB and 802.11 cores? Why PHY version does it use?

-- 
Rafał