Wireless Problem

[Arend van Spriel]

On 02/09/2012 08:17 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2012/2/9 Vince Radice <vhradice at cfl.rr.com>:
>>    I am having a problem trying to get a Netgear WNA3100 adapter working.  I
>> have probably been through 100+ posts and threads trying to figure out what
>> is happening.  I have attached two files.  One contains the output from
>> dmesg.  The other has the output from several commands as requested in the
>> doc.
> 
> This is BCM43231, fullmac device, nothing to-be-covered by b43 driver.
> The driver that may support this chipset is brcmfmac, but for now only
> support for BCM4329, BCM4330 and BCM43236 was recently-added. I think
> I remember Arend saying they are not working on support for BCM43231
> for now. I may be wrong however.

You are correct.

> We could try hacking support for this chipset by just extracting
> firmware for BCM43231 and adding proper USB ID in brcmfmac. I don't
> think anyone is working on this.
> 

I believe the API between driver and firmware is different so expect
problems doing that. I can inform just how different.

Gr. AvS