Tyler Aviss wrote: > 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) > > 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.
When you issue an 'lspci -nnv' for one of these devices, what is the PCI ID for the BCM4322? I suspect that this is an 802.11n device. If so, the reverse engineering for this device is going slowly. We had one person working on decompiling a MIPS Broadcom driver, but he has been busy with other things lately. I have been busy with working on the LP PHY (an 802.11g variant) for a couple of reasons - it is a lot more like the other G PHYs, and I personally have one of the devices. Once the LP PHY is working, then I will start on the N PHY code. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
