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.

>
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>
> Saludos,
> -Roman
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