On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Larry Finger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/02/2010 08:11 PM, Daniel Kuehn wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am the (un)lucky owner of a Macbook of late 2009 model, which has a
>> Broadcom combo card (BT + WLAN sharing 3 antennas) but neither the b43
>> or broadcom-sta support it, I just get invalid parameters or the
>> interface disappears.
>>
>> Is there anyway I could help you guys with getting this wlan card to
>> work? I could test experimental drivers or try to bash it to work or
>> such, it would just be awesome if I could get it to work.
>>
>> The chip PCI ID is 14e4:4353 if that helps you any, its a wireless N
>> card as I have understod it, but there exist no info that either confirm
>> or discard the PCI ID as a WLAN card. I havent been able to get any info
>> of which card this is supposed to be from broadcoms sortiment, I cannot
>> find any of the cards listen on broadcoms homepage to match with this card.
>
> The Broadcom 5.10.56.46 that is the basis for my current reverse engineering
> effort supports that card. To the best of my knowledge, it is an 802.11n
> dual-band card. The coding effort to support N PHYs has just started. Of 
> course,
> it could be an SSLPN PHY and the RE for them is not yet started. In any case,
> who knows when any code will be ready. Watch this mailing list for patches.
>
> Larry
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It is a BCM43224, N-PHY+Bluetooth. It is not an SSLPN- or QN-PHY.

(BTW, these PHY names are somehow just keep getting longer and
longer... I believe in 2020, we will see the first
ALLURBASERBELONG2US-PHY... though maybe
PSEUDOPNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS-PHY is a better
guess.)

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