brcm80211 in b43

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 15 05:55:42 EDT 2010


2010/10/15 Arjan Schrijver <arjan at anymore.nl>:
>  On 10/14/10 22:27, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Ariel Pedraza<pedrazaa at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> In the future the b43 driver will support the same devices that the
>>> brcm80211 driver does? just one universal driver pure FOSS...
>>
>> No.
>>
>> B43 only supports SSB-based devices; while brcm80211 is for SSB-less
>> ones. (Brcmfmac is yet another driver - for fullmac Broadcoms with the
>> exception of BCM4320, which is handled by rndis_wlan.)
>>
>
> Which driver would I need for the device below?
> 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n
> Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
>
> Is this a SSB-based device, or a SSB-less device?

It's SSB-based. You will want b43 when it gets stable N-PHY support or
brcm80211 when it gets SSB devices support.

-- 
Rafał



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