Hey All,
First of all, a quick introduction of myself. In general, I'm more of a sysadmin than a kernel developer, though in the odd case I've tracked down a few driver or FOSS-project bugs here and there (webcams and gatekeeper proejcts, small bugs usually caused by simple mistakes). So while I've never really delved heavily into writing drivers, I can at least do a step-by-step testing in many cases. I'm joining the list because: a) I have a bunch of laptops with Broadcomm cards, which - thanks to you developers - now happily work without me needing to use NDISwrapper b) I have a newer laptop with a Broadcomm card which seems to be something of an enigma at the moment. Now onward to (b), and what is currently one of the driving causes behind my joining this list. I notice that on the "LinuxWireless" page, the origins/status of the BCM4322 chipset seems to be somewhat unknown. The current comment in the unsupported section is: * BCM 4322 - We are working on support for this device (FIXME: what the hell is a BCM4322? –mb) If you haven't sighted this card in the wild, I currently have one in my newer HP laptop: A tx5254ca (Canadian TX2500 series, one of the reversible-screen tablet jobs). These went up for sale in a bunch of places at Future Shop and Best Buy, etc, so we may be seeing more Linux users with this chipset in the future. I'd be happy to lend and support I can in supplying info/dumps/etc and testing the driver on this chipset as needed. Broadcomm actually has their own Linux/closed-source driver that somewhat works for this chipset (wl), but at the moment it's buggy as heck and tends to regularly disconnect and reconnect. I'd love to see the B43 driver get this chipset working, both so that I can have a working card and so that users can use a "true" FOSS driver rather than a buggy closed-source one. Regards, Tyler Aviss _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
