I found a miniPCI card from a china made bcm4306 based card with the 0x4320 ID that was not recognized as an Apple Airport card.
It look like it would be recognized by the b43 module based on source examination so I figured I'd use a PCI to miniPCI adapter and see if I can make the changes without bricking the card.
iwpriv doesn't seem to like the b43 module recognized card and wouldn't allow me to perform any read/write functions and it was hinted that this method is for the older bcm43xx module.
I located the ssb_sprom file for the card in question by identification of "lspci" and copied out the ssb_sprom file to the Desktop as "original_sprom" for easy identification (and so I know which was the unmodified).
Time for step one:I modified the firmware with the ID's I want using the "ssb-sprom" application.
On to step two:As suggested by Asheesh, I copied the modified firmware file onto the ssb_sprom file in the original location and at first I couldn't tell and wasn't sure if anything happened so I "rmmod b43; modprobe b43" and copied the ssb_sprom file back to the desktop as "new_original_sprom" and then did "ssb-sprom -i Desktop/ new_original_sprom -P" and my new ID's were displayed so it was time to test this so I started trying the card in various computers and was elated with the success of things.
Results now in Mac OS X on a B&W G3, a PowerPC Dual G5 Xserve and an generic Intel x86 PC sporting a Core 2 Quad is that the card is natively recognized and supported.
http://acm.pastebin.com/f5175a0a8 http://daleenterprise.com/download/airportclone.png Now I have question regarding the process I performed. Was the disabling and enabling of "b43 required"??? Is this the correct procedure for modification of the subsys ID's??? -- Dale
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