Procedure for donating hardware to b43 project

Kshitij Kulshreshtha kkhere.geo at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 07:16:32 EDT 2012


*ping*

Does anyone want this piece of hardware?

As on 2012-05-22 16:02, Kshitij Kulshreshtha did write:
> Hello,
> 
> I am interested in donating a Broadcom BCM94228HMB Mini-PCIe card for
> the purpose of open source driver development. The card has the PCI ID
> 14e4:4359 This device is listed as not tested on the b43 driver website
> [1] and upon binding the pci device to the bcma driver and force loading
> b43 in kernel version 3.3.6 I get the following output.
> 
> [13174.301451] bcma: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x800,
> rev 0x25, class 0x0)
> [13174.301475] bcma: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x812,
> rev 0x1E, class 0x0)
> [13174.301526] bcma: Core 2 found: PCIe (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x820, rev
> 0x12, class 0x0)
>  [13174.301548] bcma: Core 3 found: SDIO Device (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x829,
> rev 0x07, class 0x0)
> [13174.301667] bcma: PLL init unknown for device 0xA8DC
> [13174.301669] bcma: PMU resource config unknown for device 0xA8DC
> [13174.301671] bcma: PMU switch/regulators init unknown for device 0xA8DC
> [13174.301672] bcma: Workarounds unknown for device 0xA8DC
> [13174.308903] bcma: No SPROM available
> [13174.308995] bcma: Bus registered
> [13174.327537] b43-phy0: Broadcom 43228 WLAN found (core revision 30)
> [13174.327953] b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 9, Type 9,
> Revision 0)
> [13174.327958] b43: probe of bcma0:1 failed with error -95
> [13174.327968] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMNLS ]
> 
> Incidentally the card seems to have a Bluetooth component as well, but
> this does not show up at all under linux.
> 
> So what would be the procedure to donate this card to someone who knows
> a more about the b43 driver and devices so this device can be supported
> in the future?
> 
> Thanks and regards.
> 

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