Procedure for donating hardware to b43 project

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Mon Jun 4 20:10:14 EDT 2012


On 06/01/2012 06:16 AM, Kshitij Kulshreshtha wrote:
> *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.

I have been holding back in case someone spoke up, but as no one has, I would be 
happy to add it to my collection.

I will send you my mailing address in a separate post.

Thanks,

Larry




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