On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Roman Medina-Heigl Hernandez<ro...@rs-labs.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry for pinging this list but I did some searches and I couldn't find > responses... > > I've got a new Dell Mini-10 ("Inspiron 1010"), with the following wifi > chipset: "BCM 4310 USB". It's got PCI-ID: 14e4:4315. Despite being marked > as "USB", I suppose it's a mini-pci (as stated in this list's archives and > some other places). > > But looking at: > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Known_PCI_devices > I can see: > > "14e4:4315 not supported BCM4312 802.11b/g - low power" > > So my 1st question is: are BCM4312 and BCM4310 "the same"? Why do they have > the same pci-id?
The correct name of the card is BCM4312; some older pci.ids files incorrectly list it as "BCM4310 USB". Update your pci.ids to fix this. > > My second question: at the same page I can read: > > "BCM 4310 USB - This device has an LP PHY. We think that means low power. > In any case, previous code does not work. The reverse engineers have > generated specs for the code writers and development is in progress. Note: > This card uses the PCI bus, despite its name." > > Please, could you update this info? I don't know whether the comment is up > to date or whether (perhaps) some progress happened since then... any > experimental driver out there? > > Thank you. There is no experimental driver yet. I'm currently working on an implementation, but right now, not even the hardware init code is complete. > > -- > > Saludos, > -Roman > > PGP Fingerprint: > 09BB EFCD 21ED 4E79 25FB 29E1 E47F 8A7D EAD5 6742 > [Key ID: 0xEAD56742. Available at KeyServ] > _______________________________________________ > Bcm43xx-dev mailing list > Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev > -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev