New device in MacBook Pro, yet unsupported?

[Rafał Miłecki]

W dniu 11 czerwca 2011 00:35 użytkownik Rafał Miłecki
<zajec5 at gmail.com> napisał:
> W dniu 11 czerwca 2011 00:23 użytkownik David Woodhouse
> <dwmw2 at infradead.org> napisał:
>> On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 12:32 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>> Not right now, but in future, I think I could support it this way. We
>>> need to introduce support for AI first. Maybe before that 4331 cards
>>> will appear on ebays? I'll ping you when support for AI is done :)
>>
>> The brcm80211 driver seems to have lots of references to 4331, although
>> it doesn't include 0x4331 in its PCI device table. Might be interesting
>> just to load it and make it bind to the device.
>
> It does not include the most important one: support for the HT PHY.
>
>
>> I just bought a new MBP, and am stuck with one of these. Who wants it,
>> if it isn't currently working?
>>
>> And what can I use in its place? I don't recognise the form factor at
>> http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/MIYRQcks54DunO3k.huge
>
> Were you able to find Windows driver for this card? The one you could
> use with ndiswrapper?
>
> I'm interested in playing with such a card, if Windows driver exists.

I've read a little about this card on Ubuntu forum. It seems to be
problematic to be used with ndiswrapper:
1) Standard Windows driver uses NDIS 6 API, which is not supported by
ndiswrapper
2) 64-bit Windows driver [0] can be used with ndiswrapper but causes
instabilities after some time of using

I've asked for tests of mmiotracer and ndiswrapper on Ubuntu forum [1] [2].

We can at least see what does Windows driver does for this card. How
much does it differ from N-PHY, etc.

[0] http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10504930&postcount=11
[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10927272&postcount=478
[2] http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10927276&postcount=479

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Rafał