W dniu 4 stycznia 2010 23:45 użytkownik Gábor Stefanik
<[email protected]> napisał:
> 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.
Uh, so they really used 43[0-9]{3} instead of 43[0-9]{2}. Didn't
expect that, that's why I asked for double check. Thanks for
explaining.
--
Rafał
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