BCM43224

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 29 November 2016 at 11:48, Faissal Bensefia <faissaloo at me.com> wrote:
> On 28/11/16 21:03, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> On 23 November 2016 at 21:27, Faissal Bensefia <faissaloo at me.com> wrote:
>>> To my knowledge the only drivers for this card are brcmsmac and
>>> broadcom-wl, both of which require proprietary firmware, which I'd like
>>> to do without. How can I assist in reverse engineering the BCM43224
>>> firmware? Are there any resources that explain how to use b43-tools?
>>
>> b43 also has (very) limited support for BCM43224, after all you
>> e-mailed b43 mailing list.
>>
> I've attempted to use b43 but on my card but it doesn't work, the module
> never loads, despite me removing brcmsmac making sure that everything
> has been unloaded and then loading b43, as well as blacklisting
> brcmsmac, none of which worked. From what I've read there is meant to be
> support but it's not been tested (I don't remember where the site was
> but it had a list of Broadcom cards and their support status).

Please be specific.

"the module never loads" - what error do you see after doing "modprobe b43"?

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Rafał