Re: BCM 4310 USB (14e4:4315). Any progress?

[Roman Medina-Heigl Hernandez]

Larry Finger escribió:
 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?
 
 As you have discovered, this info is up to date.
 
 There is no experimental driver yet. I'm currently working on an
 implementation, but right now, not even the hardware init code is
 complete.

Any (aprox.) ETA? End of year perhaps? Meanwhile I think the best choice
for me is this:
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
Having sources from vendor, I hope your work gets a little easier and b43
development goes faster so I could use your b43 driver :)

 Broadcom really has messed up the naming of the LP devices. For example,
 
 (a) BCM4312 802.11abg devices with ID 14e4:4312 that works with b43
 (b) BCM4312 802.11bg devices with ID 14e4:4315 that does not work
 (c) BCM4310 USB with ID 14e4:4315 that also does not work with b43
 
 The device in (c) has a USB core that is not enabled. I think Broadcom
 was considering a USB implementation; however these have never been
 released AFAIK. All of them are built on a PCI base.

Thank you, Gábor  Larry, for your responses (and to all the team for your
efforts).

Cheers,
-Román
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BCM 4310 USB (14e4:4315). Any progress?

[Roman Medina-Heigl Hernandez]

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?

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.

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Saludos,
-Roman

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