[PATCH V2] fwcutter: Add firmware 6.30.163.46

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 29 16:07:27 EDT 2013


2013/7/29 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>:
> 2013/7/29 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>:
>> This firmware version can be extracted from the GPL tarball for the ASUS
>> GPL code for the RT-AC66U 802.11ac Dual-Band Wireless-AC1750 Gigabit Router.
>>
>> I believe this to be the first instance of 802.11ac firmware for Broadcom
>> hardware. The firmware is version 784.2.
>>
>> Note: The http://www.lwfinger.com/broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2 is the URL
>> of the extracted apsta binary. The full GPL package is at
>> http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/wireless/RT-AC66U/GPL_RT_AC66U_3004372.zip.
>
> There is some (probably outdated) list of Broadcom 802.11ac routers:
> ASUS RT-AC66U
> Linksys EA6500
> Netgear R6300
>
> Did you compare wl.ko drivers from the 2 other firmwares? Is this the
> newest one?
>
> Did you start AC-PHY RE process?

In case you wonder, I have a MIPS router with BCM4331 + BCM4360,
unfrotunately there isn't mmiotrace available for MIPS, so I can't
start RE that way :(

I may think about buying PCE-AC66 at some point.

-- 
Rafał



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