Planned Support for BCM 43162 [14e4:43ae] rev 02 ?

Jan Sobotka xSobotkaJ at seznam.cz
Fri May 6 04:19:40 PDT 2016


>>You may try:
>>sudo su
>>rmmod bcma
>>echo "14e4 43ae" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/brcmfmac/new_id
>>dmesg | grep brcmfmac

Output:
[14054.947644] usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac

Full command history:
root at chobot-lenovo-laptop:~# lsmod | grep bcma
root at chobot-lenovo-laptop:~# rmmod bcma
rmmod: ERROR: Module bcma is not currently loaded
root at chobot-lenovo-laptop:~# echo "14e4 43ae" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/brcmfmac/new_id
-bash: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/brcmfmac/new_id: No such file or directory
root at chobot-lenovo-laptop:~# modprobe brcmfmac
root at chobot-lenovo-laptop:~# lsmod | grep brcmfmac
brcmfmac              290816  0
brcmutil               16384  1 brcmfmac
cfg80211              565248  2 brcmfmac,mac80211
root at chobot-lenovo-laptop:~# echo "14e4 43ae" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/brcmfmac/new_id
root at chobot-lenovo-laptop:~# dmesg | grep brcmfmac
[14054.947644] usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac


---------- Původní zpráva ----------
Od: Rafał Miłecki 
Komu: Jan Sobotka , brcm80211 development 
Datum: 6. 5. 2016 2:03:08
Předmět: Re: Planned Support for BCM 43162 [14e4:43ae] rev 02 ?

On 5 May 2016 at 18:22, Jan Sobotka  wrote:
> Great, now it works. Output:
>
> root at chobot-lenovo-laptop:/home/chobot# echo "14e4 43ae" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/bcma-pci-bridge/new_id
> root at chobot-lenovo-laptop:/home/chobot# dmesg | egrep "bcma|b43"
> [ 5295.114902] bcma: bus0: Found chip with id 0x4335, rev 0x02 and package 0x01
> [ 5295.114950] bcma: bus0: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x800, rev 0x2E, class 0x0)
> [ 5295.114974] bcma: bus0: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x812, rev 0x2E, class 0x0)
> [ 5295.115026] bcma: bus0: Core 2 found: ARM CR4 (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x83E, rev 0x04, class 0x0)
> [ 5295.115073] bcma: bus0: Core 3 found: PCIe Gen2 (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x83C, rev 0x04, class 0x0)
> [ 5295.115096] bcma: bus0: Core 4 found: USB 2.0 Device (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x81A, rev 0x14, class 0x0)
> [ 5295.115119] bcma: bus0: Core 5 found: SDIO Device (manuf 0x4BF, id 0x829, rev 0x15, class 0x0)
> [ 5295.115170] bcma: bus0: Bridge found
> [ 5295.115221] bcma-pci-bridge: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -84

So this is device with BCM4335 chipset which is a FullMAC one AFAIK.
It may be supported by brcmfmac. There is already support for BCM4335
in brcmfmac but it was developed for SDIO devices only. I don't think
we ever met BCM4335 on PCIe device.

However I think brcmfmac may need some extra changes to support
BCM4335 on PCIe. Lets also see if Broadcom team can help us with this.


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