B43 driver problem

[Larry Finger]

On 08/21/2014 10:20 PM, Igor Korot wrote:
> Hi, ALL,
> I hope this list is still alive. ;-)
> I'm using Gentoo and recently I acquired a DELL laptop with the
> Broadcom wireless card.
> 
> I successfully installed the system on it (using kernel version
> 3.12.20), but I can't make the Broadcom driver work.
> 
> This is what I have:
> 
> [code]
> dmesg | grep -i -e b43 -e broad -e firm | less:
> [    1.346589] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4312 WLAN found (core revision 15)
> [    1.363251] b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 6, Type 5
> (LP), Revision 1)
> [    1.364925] b43: probe of ssb0:0 failed with error -95
> [    1.366477] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PL ]
> [/code]
> 
> Now does this card supported by linux or it is work in progress or?
> I can upgrade the kernel as its not a big deal, I just want to make
> sure that I will have a working environment.

I can confirm that the BCM4312 has worked for several years. As Rafal has
stated, you have some kind of kernel configuration problem. Please post your
entire .config.

Larry