pci id 14e4:4727 (bcm4313) status?

[Gábor Stefanik]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Jason <b43 at lakedaemon.net> wrote:
> All,
>
> I have a pci-express card that shows itself as pci_id 14e4:4727.  According
> to [1], it says partial support since 2.6.33 (b43/wl/brcm80211).  I was
> hoping that meant b43 since it has much better mac80211 integration than
> brcm80211.  I didn't think brcm80211 was in 2.6.33.
> However, compat-wireless (built from tarball) doesn't see it.  grep the
> source code doesn't pull up '4727' in b43... I tried to update my
> wireless-testing-2.6 tree, but it looks like it's still having trouble,
> latest is 229aebb... from Oct 24th.
>
> So, what will it take to get it up and running?  I've contributed some
> patches to staging, but they're mainly janitorial/checkpatch stuff for
> brcm80211.  Are there some beginner tasks for b43 (ie dig through brcm80211
> and port over) that might help out?
>
> thx,
>
> Jason.
>
> [1] http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Known_PCI_devices


Hi,

AFAIK 4313 is an SSB-less device, so it will probably never be
supported by b43 (though expect eventual code sharing between the 2
drivers).

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