2010/1/4 Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>: > 2010/1/3 Daniel Kuehn <[email protected]>: >> 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. > > Could you check what chipset is it? I think you should see something like: > b43-phy0: Broadcom 43** WLAN found > where 43** is number I ask for. > > Gábor: do you have still access to this 14e4:4353 device? If Daniel > won't able to check chipset, could you do this? I don't think that > BCM43224 you noted is correct. Could you double check that? > > I just would like to fill table on > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 with this device. >
The wireless card in the late-2009 MacBook is a BCM943224PCIEBT (as stated on the exterior shell of the actual MacBook), which is a custom (but Broadcom-made) BCM43224 (basically a dual-band BCM4322 plus a BCM2070 for Bluetooth). A picture of the card can be seen at http://images.weiphone.com/attachments/Day_091021/68_294416_286a2478633560a.jpg - note that this is an official Apple replacement part, and may look slightly different from a generic Broadcom version. Pictures of the Broadcom reference version will be available on FCC's site after February 20, when the temporary confidentality grant expires. The description for BCM943224HMB (the same card in a different form factor) can be viewed at http://www.broadcom.com/products/Wireless-LAN/802.11-Wireless-LAN-Solutions/BCM943224HMB (note Broadcom's odd usage of the word "SoC", which is used in the sense "single-chip transceiver" - the 43224 is not a SOC in the true sense of the word). I do not currently have either type of BCM43224 at hand, but the information found on the web looks convincing. > -- > Rafał > _______________________________________________ > Bcm43xx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev > -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
