Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com writes: 3) Antennas with MHF4 connector (damn hard to find) Cannot help with the donations, but I have good experience buying MHF4 pigtails from this company: http://www.hwtools.net/ They have MHF4 to RP-SMA or SMA pigtails: http://www.hwtools.net/Accessory/RF22xxxB.html http://www.hwtools.net/Accessory/RF12xxxB.html Haven't found any other variants anywhere. In particular the interesting MHF4 to U.FL pigtail for those of us wanting to use U.FL antennas with M.2 modules. I ended up creating those myself, using my limited soldering skills, based on SMA pigtails I got from hwtools and standard surface mount U.FL connectors. If space permits you can of course always use an SMA to U.FL connector for that instead. Bjørn ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
On 14 August 2014 14:34, Bjørn Mork bj...@mork.no wrote: Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com writes: 3) Antennas with MHF4 connector (damn hard to find) Cannot help with the donations, but I have good experience buying MHF4 pigtails from this company: http://www.hwtools.net/ They have MHF4 to RP-SMA or SMA pigtails: http://www.hwtools.net/Accessory/RF22xxxB.html http://www.hwtools.net/Accessory/RF12xxxB.html I think I'll try that, thanks! Btw. have you ever seen adapter for Apple proprietary connector anywhere? I still would like to buy one for my old BCM4331CD without spending ~100$ for the set of BCM4331CD + adapter I found on TaoBao/Mallaid/eBay. -- Rafał ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com writes: On 14 August 2014 14:34, Bjørn Mork bj...@mork.no wrote: Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com writes: 3) Antennas with MHF4 connector (damn hard to find) Cannot help with the donations, but I have good experience buying MHF4 pigtails from this company: http://www.hwtools.net/ They have MHF4 to RP-SMA or SMA pigtails: http://www.hwtools.net/Accessory/RF22xxxB.html http://www.hwtools.net/Accessory/RF12xxxB.html I think I'll try that, thanks! Btw. have you ever seen adapter for Apple proprietary connector anywhere? No, sorry. I didn't even know they had invented their own connector. Even highend router and server vendors realized the stupidity of that at the end of the last millennium. Well, I guess Apple is lagging 15+ years behind the rest of the business then. Bjørn ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
On 2 August 2014 13:01, John Vogel jvog...@stny.rr.com wrote: On Sat, 2 Aug 2014 01:16:13 +0200 Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com wrote: So I ordered BCM4360CD with an adapter for now. It costed $125,63 USD. Together with Asus PCIe card from Alex I should be able to start looking at AC-PHY. I should start receiving stuff next Friday. This was out of your own pocket? I have sent some to your paypal account to help bear the cost. If not out of your own pocket, hopefully will help with other equipment needs. Sorry for the late reply. To order/buy BCM4360CD I used money from donations I received after my initial e-mail. I can't track my order because Mallaid provided me an invalid tracking number, but I hope it'll arrive early next week. I keep info about received/spent donations on: http://zajec.net/donate Thanks a lot for your donation! P.S. I've already received PCE-AC56 donated by Alex. So will soon have some hardware to play with :) -- Rafał ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
On Sat, 2 Aug 2014 01:16:13 +0200 Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 July 2014 08:57, Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 July 2014 08:09, Alex Henrie alexhenri...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-07-27 15:07 GMT-06:00 Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com: Anyone interested in helping a bit? I've PayPal account (registered with this e-mail) or I can link items I need to order + shipping address if you prefer. What specific items are you looking for? (Send me some model numbers.) (...) So to sum it up: 1) Adapter for BCM94331CD 2) Some BCM4352 3) PCIe Asus based on BCM4360 4) BCM94360CD + adapter What I found: 1) Standalone adapters are available as Dual 12 PCIE-AM. I found them on agreetao and mallaid (don't have any experience with them): http://www.agreetao.com/item/20865240537 http://www.mallaid.com/index.php/item/20865240537 Cost at Mallaid $28 + shipping ($10 or $24) I was quite wrong about standalone adapter. I was going to order one, but I checked better quality images on taobao first. They appeared to have standard mini PCIe slots! No idea what are they then... So I ordered BCM4360CD with an adapter for now. It costed $125,63 USD. Together with Asus PCIe card from Alex I should be able to start looking at AC-PHY. I should start receiving stuff next Friday. This was out of your own pocket? I have sent some to your paypal account to help bear the cost. If not out of your own pocket, hopefully will help with other equipment needs. ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
On 28 July 2014 08:57, Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 July 2014 08:09, Alex Henrie alexhenri...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-07-27 15:07 GMT-06:00 Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com: Anyone interested in helping a bit? I've PayPal account (registered with this e-mail) or I can link items I need to order + shipping address if you prefer. What specific items are you looking for? (Send me some model numbers.) (...) So to sum it up: 1) Adapter for BCM94331CD 2) Some BCM4352 3) PCIe Asus based on BCM4360 4) BCM94360CD + adapter What I found: 1) Standalone adapters are available as Dual 12 PCIE-AM. I found them on agreetao and mallaid (don't have any experience with them): http://www.agreetao.com/item/20865240537 http://www.mallaid.com/index.php/item/20865240537 Cost at Mallaid $28 + shipping ($10 or $24) I was quite wrong about standalone adapter. I was going to order one, but I checked better quality images on taobao first. They appeared to have standard mini PCIe slots! No idea what are they then... So I ordered BCM4360CD with an adapter for now. It costed $125,63 USD. Together with Asus PCIe card from Alex I should be able to start looking at AC-PHY. I should start receiving stuff next Friday. ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
On 27/07/2014 23:07, Rafał Miłecki wrote: Note: this is *not* anyhow officially related to the OpenWrt! This is my private request, I use OpenWrt ML just to reach ppl interested in this topic. Also I can't guarantee my development will success and can't guarantee any progress in any reasonable time. if it makes you feel better i can add the official bit, you have done a pile of great work recently :) official we would like to officially ask those who think that Rafał's work on brcm is important to help him out by donating the named/requested materials to him ... and as usual his work is on a best effort basis /official John ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
2014-07-27 15:07 GMT-06:00 Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com: Anyone interested in helping a bit? I've PayPal account (registered with this e-mail) or I can link items I need to order + shipping address if you prefer. What specific items are you looking for? (Send me some model numbers.) -Alex ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
2014-07-28 0:57 GMT-06:00 Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com: 1) Standalone adapters are available as Dual 12 PCIE-AM. I found them on agreetao and mallaid (don't have any experience with them): http://www.agreetao.com/item/20865240537 http://www.mallaid.com/index.php/item/20865240537 Cost at Mallaid $28 + shipping ($10 or $24) Would this work? http://www.amazon.de/dp/B004LB714M How many do you need? -Alex ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
On 28 July 2014 09:39, Alex Henrie alexhenri...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-07-28 0:57 GMT-06:00 Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com: 1) Standalone adapters are available as Dual 12 PCIE-AM. I found them on agreetao and mallaid (don't have any experience with them): http://www.agreetao.com/item/20865240537 http://www.mallaid.com/index.php/item/20865240537 Cost at Mallaid $28 + shipping ($10 or $24) Would this work? http://www.amazon.de/dp/B004LB714M How many do you need? No, this is a standard adapter PCIe - mini PCIe adatpter. BCM94331CD and BCM94360CD both use proprietary Apple connector. It uses 6 + 12 pins instead of 8 + 18. -- Rafał ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
2014-07-28 1:45 GMT-06:00 Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com: No, this is a standard adapter PCIe - mini PCIe adatpter. BCM94331CD and BCM94360CD both use proprietary Apple connector. It uses 6 + 12 pins instead of 8 + 18. I see. I'm not very interested in sponsoring development that only directly benefits Mac users. However, if you send me your shipping address, I would be willing to give you an Asus PCE-AC56 instead: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JNA337K -Alex ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
On 28 July 2014 10:01, Alex Henrie alexhenri...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-07-28 1:45 GMT-06:00 Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com: No, this is a standard adapter PCIe - mini PCIe adatpter. BCM94331CD and BCM94360CD both use proprietary Apple connector. It uses 6 + 12 pins instead of 8 + 18. I see. I'm not very interested in sponsoring development that only directly benefits Mac users. However, if you send me your shipping address, I would be willing to give you an Asus PCE-AC56 instead: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JNA337K The reason I need few different cards is to spot places in code that need to check for the hardware version. So having Apple hardware which is usually a bit different helps here. Also: working with BCM94331CD is the best way of improving general BCM4331 support. All standalone BCM4331 cards use Apple proprietary connector. You can't buy a BCM4331 that will simply fit into PCIe or mini PCIe. I've heard once about UPWL6031C, but it's not possible to find it anywhere. So to improve support for BCM4331s (that are used in many routers), I *have to* buy Apple BCM4331 card and an adapter. Or the whole Mac :P Anyway, having Asus PCE-AC56 would be great for AC-PHY development, I'll send you my address in a minute, thanks! :) -- Rafał ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
2014-07-28 2:12 GMT-06:00 Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com: The reason I need few different cards is to spot places in code that need to check for the hardware version. So having Apple hardware which is usually a bit different helps here. Also: working with BCM94331CD is the best way of improving general BCM4331 support. All standalone BCM4331 cards use Apple proprietary connector. You can't buy a BCM4331 that will simply fit into PCIe or mini PCIe. I've heard once about UPWL6031C, but it's not possible to find it anywhere. So to improve support for BCM4331s (that are used in many routers), I *have to* buy Apple BCM4331 card and an adapter. Or the whole Mac :P Anyway, having Asus PCE-AC56 would be great for AC-PHY development, I'll send you my address in a minute, thanks! :) Thanks for the explanation. Still, I'd rather send you the Asus PCE-AC56. I'll forward the order confirmation to you shortly. 2014-07-27 23:59 GMT-06:00 John Crispin j...@phrozen.org: if it makes you feel better i can add the official bit, you have done a pile of great work recently :) official we would like to officially ask those who think that Rafał's work on brcm is important to help him out by donating the named/requested materials to him ... and as usual his work is on a best effort basis /official So does the donation of this hardware count as a tax-deductible contribution through Software in the Public Interest? -Alex ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
On 28/07/2014 10:31, Alex Henrie wrote: 2014-07-27 23:59 GMT-06:00 John Crispin j...@phrozen.org: if it makes you feel better i can add the official bit, you have done a pile of great work recently :) official we would like to officially ask those who think that Rafał's work on brcm is important to help him out by donating the named/requested materials to him ... and as usual his work is on a best effort basis /official So does the donation of this hardware count as a tax-deductible contribution through Software in the Public Interest? not sure if this goes for material donations aswell or only money ... i will find out and let you know ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014, John Crispin wrote: On 27/07/2014 23:07, Rafał Miłecki wrote: Note: this is *not* anyhow officially related to the OpenWrt! This is my private request, I use OpenWrt ML just to reach ppl interested in this topic. Also I can't guarantee my development will success and can't guarantee any progress in any reasonable time. if it makes you feel better i can add the official bit, you have done a pile of great work recently :) official we would like to officially ask those who think that Rafał's work on brcm is important to help him out by donating the named/requested materials to him ... and as usual his work is on a best effort basis /official I've had an interest in helping get specific routers supported in the past, but figuring out who to send equipment to ended up defeating me repeatedly. David Lang___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
On 28/07/2014 10:41, David Lang wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2014, John Crispin wrote: On 27/07/2014 23:07, Rafał Miłecki wrote: Note: this is *not* anyhow officially related to the OpenWrt! This is my private request, I use OpenWrt ML just to reach ppl interested in this topic. Also I can't guarantee my development will success and can't guarantee any progress in any reasonable time. if it makes you feel better i can add the official bit, you have done a pile of great work recently :) official we would like to officially ask those who think that Rafał's work on brcm is important to help him out by donating the named/requested materials to him ... and as usual his work is on a best effort basis /official I've had an interest in helping get specific routers supported in the past, but figuring out who to send equipment to ended up defeating me repeatedly. David Lang hi david. please post the link to the mail you sent on -devel about this. John ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014, John Crispin wrote: On 28/07/2014 10:41, David Lang wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2014, John Crispin wrote: On 27/07/2014 23:07, Rafał Miłecki wrote: Note: this is *not* anyhow officially related to the OpenWrt! This is my private request, I use OpenWrt ML just to reach ppl interested in this topic. Also I can't guarantee my development will success and can't guarantee any progress in any reasonable time. if it makes you feel better i can add the official bit, you have done a pile of great work recently :) official we would like to officially ask those who think that Rafał's work on brcm is important to help him out by donating the named/requested materials to him ... and as usual his work is on a best effort basis /official I've had an interest in helping get specific routers supported in the past, but figuring out who to send equipment to ended up defeating me repeatedly. David Lang hi david. please post the link to the mail you sent on -devel about this. It's been a couple years since my last attempt, given that the topic just came up, I figured I'd try to figure out what the right process is for the next time :-) the most interesting items for me right now are the DSL version on the netgear 3700 and the netgear r6200. David Lang___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
On 28 July 2014 10:49, David Lang da...@lang.hm wrote: the most interesting items for me right now are the DSL version on the netgear 3700 and the netgear r6200. WNDR3700v3 is based on BCM4718A1. Builtin WiFi should be supported, looking for testers. It also contains BCM4331 which is not well supported yet and it subject on discussion in this thread. R6200 is a totally new architecture (ARM not MIPS) and still requires at least few months of development for some basic usage. -- Rafał ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
On 28/07/2014 10:31, Alex Henrie wrote: So does the donation of this hardware count as a tax-deductible contribution through Software in the Public Interest? Hi, please send your invoice to this address treasu...@spi-inc.org with a small text explaining the cause and maybe add the link to the mailing list archive of this thread and put g...@openwrt.org and blo...@openwrt.org in CC John ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
hi david. please post the link to the mail you sent on -devel about this. It's been a couple years since my last attempt, given that the topic just came up, I figured I'd try to figure out what the right process is for the next time :-) i just checked the archive and i cannot find a single mail from you where you try to figure out where to send donations to. can you elaborate your effort ? i want to understand what you did wrong to help other not make the same error in future the most interesting items for me right now are the DSL version on the netgear 3700 and the netgear r6200. what HW is inside them ? John ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:01 AM, John Crispin j...@phrozen.org wrote: hi david. please post the link to the mail you sent on -devel about this. It's been a couple years since my last attempt, given that the topic just came up, I figured I'd try to figure out what the right process is for the next time :-) i just checked the archive and i cannot find a single mail from you where you try to figure out where to send donations to. can you elaborate your effort ? i want to understand what you did wrong to help other not make the same error in future the most interesting items for me right now are the DSL version on the netgear 3700 and the netgear r6200. what HW is inside them ? Both Broadcom bcm63xx - so you won't get any DSL out of it. I do have a DGND3700v1 here, and I plan to add support to it soonish (not sure if it make it to BB). It won't include nand flash support. Adding support for v2 or D6200 will be a bit less useful, as both use bcm6362 and the internal wifi for 2.4GHz, which is currently completely unsupported. And in case of D6200, 11AC wifi for 5 GHz, so no support there either. Jonas ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
[OpenWrt-Devel] [OT] Anyone interested in donating Broadcom development?
Hey, I recently improved b43 a bit, fixed something about 0x2056 radio, added support for BCM43228 (and BCM43227), BCM43217 (and BCM43131), added support for 5 GHz. It brings us closer to WiFi support in SoCs like BCM5357*. I'm looking at improving BCM4331 support and adding some ***basic*** 802.11ac cards support, but I don't have needed hardware. I need: 1) Few 802.11ac cards ($50-$100 each) 2) Apple proprietary PCIe slot adapter (about $50 each, may need two) 3) Antennas with MHF4 connector (damn hard to find) Anyone interested in helping a bit? I've PayPal account (registered with this e-mail) or I can link items I need to order + shipping address if you prefer. Note: this is *not* anyhow officially related to the OpenWrt! This is my private request, I use OpenWrt ML just to reach ppl interested in this topic. Also I can't guarantee my development will success and can't guarantee any progress in any reasonable time. -- Rafał ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
