Dell e6410 with b43
Arend van Spriel
arend at broadcom.com
Wed Feb 1 11:09:13 EST 2012
On 02/01/2012 01:33 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> is Dell e6410's b43 wireless card supported by the open source driver ?
>
> Here's lspci dump:
>
> 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4353] (rev 01)
> Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1520 Half-size Mini PCIe Card [1028:000e]
> Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
> Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
> Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
> Region 0: Memory at f4100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
> Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
> Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
> Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?>
> Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
> Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
> Capabilities: [d0] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00
> DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <4us, L1 unlimited
> ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
> DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
> RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop-
> MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
> DevSta: CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr+ TransPend-
> LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <4us, L1 <64us
> ClockPM+ Surprise- LLActRep+ BwNot-
> LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+
> ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
> LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive+ BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
>
> It's at least not listed under http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Devices/PCI
>
> If it is supported, which firmware should I use ? (kernel is 3.3-rc2)
>
It is. See http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211
The firmware is available in the linux-firmware repository on
git.kernel.org. See
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git;a=summary
Gr. AvS
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