I wrote earlier about my laptop losing access to my wifi card. I sent
it in for a warranty repair through Best Buy. Yesterday, I got a phone
call from Best Buy stating that HP had authorized giving my a
replacement machine! Somehow, replacing a machine because a backplane
needed to be repaired doesn't make sense. I suspect someone dropped my
computer off the bench, or some other kind of human error.
In any case, I now have an HP dv2815nr, which increases the speed of
my dual-core AMD processors from 1.6 to 2.0 GHz, my RAM goes from 1 to
3 GB, and my disk goes from 120 to 250 GB. Not too shabby for a total
outlay of $124 on my part. That was the cost of a new 3-year service
plan less the difference in cost of the two machines. I'm happy.
Of course, there is a brand-new Broadcom wifi card in this computer,
which is the subject of this E-mail. The details are as follows:
lspci -v output:
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB
Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 137c
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
Memory at fc000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information
Capabilities: [e8] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number
1a-00-fe-ff-ff-73-64-ad
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting
lspci -n output:
04:00.0 Class 0280: 14e4:4315 (rev 01)
Relevant output from dmesg (some code modifications were needed):
ssb: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (cc 0x800, rev 0x16, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x0F, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 2 found: PCMCIA (cc 0x80D, rev 0x0A, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 3 found: PCI-E (cc 0x820, rev 0x09, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: SPROM revision 8 detected.
ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:04:00.0
b43-phy0: Broadcom 4312 WLAN found
b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 6, Type 5, Revision 1)
AFAIK, this is the first rev 8 SPROM that has been found. What
happened to revs 5-7??? As can be seen in the dump below, this is a
440-byte SPROM, just like rev 4; however, everything has been moved.
I'm still trying to find out where stuff is - the MAC address starts
at be16 offset 0x008C.
0000 012800007C133C107800BE6D0000C42B
0010 642A6429642CE73CFF467F47000C4078
0020 A000FFFF0000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
0030 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
0040 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
0050 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
0060 15430080020000000010001800000000
0070 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
0080 72531112010A0600000000001A00FE73
0090 64AD53550100FF83FFFFFFFF030002FF
00A0 FFFFFFFF0F00FFFF6C00FFFFFAFFFFFF
00B0 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
00C0 4A3E571A8AF991FEFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
00D0 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
00E0 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
00F0 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
0100 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
0110 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
0120 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
0130 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
0140 FFFF0800FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
0150 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
0160 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
0170 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
0180 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
0190 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
01A0 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
01B0 FFFFFFFFFFFF085C
Do any of the RE's know anything about this rev of the SPROM? Is there
any documentation available?
Larry
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