BCM4321 - These devices have unsupported N-PHYs. We are working on it.

[Gábor Stefanik]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Ariel Pedraza <pedrazaa at yahoo.com> wrote:
> where can I get the firmware for brcm80211?
> Is there a FOSSI firmware or is the one provided by Broadcom the only one?
>
> I installed from the  compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2 but ask for the firmware...

AFAIK the only firmware is the one released by Broadcom, and you can
find it in linux-firmware.git.
However, brcm80211 doesn't support BCM4321 - it only supports the new,
SSB-less N-PHYs (BCM43224 and BCM43225), not the older, SSB-based ones
(BCM4321 and BCM4322). B43 pretty much has everything in place to
support it (with the other Broadcom firmware), but it is untested and
AFAIK disabled. Patching b43 to enable this code might get it to work,
but I don't know, as I have no N-PHY.

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> --- El vie, 10/1/10, Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d at gmail.com> escribió:
>
>> De: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d at gmail.com>
>> Asunto: Re: BCM4321 - These devices have unsupported N-PHYs. We are working on it.
>> A: "Ariel Pedraza" <pedrazaa at yahoo.com>, "b43-dev" <b43-dev at lists.infradead.org>
>> Fecha: viernes, 1 de octubre de 2010, 04:48 pm
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>> 2010/10/1 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d at gmail.com>:
>> > 2010/10/1 Ariel Pedraza <pedrazaa at yahoo.com>:
>> >> Do I have to bind to the b43 instead the wl? using
>> this procedure "Manual driver binding and unbinding" (http://lwn.net/Articles/143397/)...
>> >
>> > You actually need to bind it to ssb, the back-end
>> module for b43.
>> > also, blacklist wl while testing. (However, I would
>> say it's easier to
>> > add the PCI ID of your card to ssb directly rather
>> than using the
>> > bind/unbind files.)
>> >
>> >>
>> >> --- El vie, 10/1/10, Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d at gmail.com>
>> escribió:
>> >>
>> >>> De: Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d at gmail.com>
>> >>> Asunto: Re: BCM4321 - These devices have
>> unsupported N-PHYs. We are working on it.
>> >>> A: "Ariel Pedraza" <pedrazaa at yahoo.com>
>> >>> Cc: b43-dev at lists.infradead.org
>> >>> Fecha: viernes, 1 de octubre de 2010, 05:53
>> am
>> >>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:42 PM,
>> >>> Ariel Pedraza <pedrazaa at yahoo.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>> > Hi, how far are you to support this chip
>> BCM4321?
>> >>>
>> >>> I've asked this question earlier; all code for
>> BCM4321
>> >>> seems to be in
>> >>> place (though not for BCM4322), but it is
>> still disabled as
>> >>> BROKEN.
>> >>>
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Is this a new chip BCM4727 not listed on
>> your page (http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43)?
>> >>> >
>> >>> > dmesg | grep eth1
>> >>> > eth1: Broadcom BCM4727 802.11 Hybrid
>> Wireless
>> >>> Controller 5.60.48.36
>> >>>
>> >>> This is BCM4313, supported in brcm80211.
>> wl_hybrid
>> >>> incorrectly uses
>> >>> the PCI device ID (0x4727) rather than the SSB
>> chip ID
>> >>> (decimal(?)
>> >>> 4313) to identify the card.
>> >>>
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
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