[PATCH 00/14] staging: brcm80211: brcmfmac driver cleanup

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 12 15:43:35 UTC 2011


W dniu 12 sierpnia 2011 17:14 użytkownik Hauke Mehrtens
<hauke at hauke-m.de> napisał:
> On 08/12/2011 04:02 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> 2011/8/12 Arend van Spriel <arend at broadcom.com>:
>>> Several cleanup patches to reduce code for the brcmfmac driver and
>>> get rid of a remaining checkpatch warning. The driver sources should
>>> be clear from checkpatch issue now.
>>>
>>> This series applies to staging-next and depends on the following patch set:
>>
>> Are you testing patches on some hardware? Or just compile-testing?
>>
>> I believe this driver is meant to support BCM4329, which is not PCI(e)
>> board. What adapter do you use?
>>
>> I've heard about Arasan adapter. Have you tried it? Is that something
>> reachable from arasan.com?
>>
>
> Is there also a softmac version of the BCM4329 available? The wl driver
> shipped with the vendor firmware of my BCM4716 device detects one of the
> wifi chips as BCM4329. I think it is the one in the BCM4716 and that is
> already supported by b43. Or is this a wrong information?
>
> Here is the output of the kernel log:
> eth0: Broadcom BCM47XX 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Controller 5.10.144.3
> eth1: Broadcom BCM4329 802.11 Wireless Controller 5.10.144.5
> PCI: Enabling device 01:01.0 (0000 -> 0002)
> eth2: Broadcom BCMa8d8 802.11 Wireless Controller 5.10.144.5

Please, try lspci and if you can, b43. I believe that is 14e4:4329
which is BCM4321.

Why wl can't properly print chipset name - ask Broadcom.

-- 
Rafał



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