at the risk of boring to absolute tears everyone who's discussed
this before, i'd just like to clarify the current status of support
for broadcom wireless, because reading various docs is making me just
a bit confused.
to recap, here's my situation WRT hardware:
* ASUS WL500-GP (version 1)
* original BCM94306 mini-PCI wireless card
* newly-acquired ASUS WL-120G mini-PCI card (BCM4306KFB chipset, as
far as i can tell)
if i ignore wireless, the router flashed with an image built from
trunk works just fine:
# uname -a
Linux OpenWrt 2.6.25.10 #1 Sat Jul 19 18:27:19 EDT 2008 mips unknown
#
i did absolutely no additional configuration after flashing my
router with that new image -- it just came up and the wired ports are
working just fine.
now, WRT wireless, i'm aware of the lack of support for broadcom
wireless, even in the upcoming 8.08 release mentioned at
http://openwrt.org/:
OpenWrt Kamikaze 8.08 Release will, amongst other, focus on bringing
the following features:
- Firewall rewrite
- Broadcom 47xx running reliably with the new Kernel, not including wifi
...
and since i've always just written off broadcom support for
wireless, i'm guessing that there would be no difference between those
two wireless cards in terms of support (or lack thereof).
but as i poke around the openwrt.org site, i read stuff like this:
https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/2677
"[PATCH] Working b43 WiFi driver for brcm47xx (2.6) target"
wherein someone claims that wireless works, someone else claims it
doesn't and, more importantly for me, the patch is claimed to work on
my very router. and when i run "make menuconfig" on openwrt trunk,
i'm clearly given the option of selecting "Broadcom BCM43xx WiFi" as
the target profile.
so, what's the story? if i leave in that ASUS mini-PCI card, can i
build a new image with BCM43xx wireless support and actually get
wireless? does anyone have working wireless under this scenario?
given the contradictory info i can find online, i'm not sure what to
believe.
rday
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