On 11/03/2010 11:28 AM, Jason wrote: > All, > > I have a pci-express card that shows itself as pci_id 14e4:4727. > According to [1], it says partial support since 2.6.33 > (b43/wl/brcm80211). I was hoping that meant b43 since it has much > better mac80211 integration than brcm80211. I didn't think brcm80211 > was in 2.6.33. > However, compat-wireless (built from tarball) doesn't see it. grep the > source code doesn't pull up '4727' in b43... I tried to update my > wireless-testing-2.6 tree, but it looks like it's still having trouble, > latest is 229aebb... from Oct 24th. > > So, what will it take to get it up and running? I've contributed some > patches to staging, but they're mainly janitorial/checkpatch stuff for > brcm80211. Are there some beginner tasks for b43 (ie dig through > brcm80211 and port over) that might help out?
That device is not supported by b43. As it now stands, b43 requires a device with the SSB interconnect, which the BCM4313 does not have. If you did fix b43 to operate without the SSB, then you would still have no support for N PHY. That one is being worked on so that N PHYs with SSB can be supported. My interpretation of the "partially supported" statement is that bleeding-edge compat wireless has been backported that far. My latest pull of wireless-testing has 2.6.37-rc1 from November 1. It includes brcm80211. Larry _______________________________________________ b43-dev mailing list b43-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev
