Interesting 14e4:4321

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Fri May 6 17:48:54 EDT 2011


W dniu 6 maja 2011 23:28 użytkownik Larry Finger
<Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net> napisał:
> On 05/06/2011 03:40 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>
>> Swen has found 14e4:4321 in his WRT160N version 1.1. This is quite
>> rare and interesting so I wanted to post all info about it :)
>>
>> I'm attaching lspci and dmesg.
>>
>> I find it interesting because it seems to be SSB SOC with standard
>> cores: CC, FastEthernet, USB, MIPS, etc. Plus there is PCI bridge with
>> 14e4:4321 card connected, which is SSB-based one with (the most
>> interesting) 80211.
>>
>> Unfortunately this is one another BCM4321 with DMA not working. I
>> really need to focus on this after fixing LP-PHY and adding BCMA.
>
> From the attachments:
>
> 01:01.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11a
> Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4321] (rev 03)
>       Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11a Wireless LAN
> Controller [14e4:4321]
>       Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 2
>       Memory at 40004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>
> Is this really a 5G-only card? Everything I could see about the WRT160N
> seemed to say that the routers are 802.11b/g/n.
>
> In addition, we really needed more BCM43XX confusion. Is a BCM4306 an
> 802.11b/g with a 14e4:4320 chip, or this one?
>
> Broadcom is really easy to hate!

It's some ooooold description from 2006 or so, so I'm sure it's
incorrect. I've no idea about 14e4:4320.

-- 
Rafał



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