Daniel: please post to ML and do not top post. ---------- Wiadomość przekazana dalej ---------- Od: Daniel Kuehn <enha...@gmail.com> Data: 5 stycznia 2010 12:46 Temat: Re: The newest Macbook 13.3" wireless Do: Rafał Miłecki <zaj...@gmail.com>
@Rafal Well, I could try and check what chip it gets detected as with b43, but I do not even get a interface when using b43 drivers. With the broadcom-sta drivers I get the eth1 interface but any calls to it like 'iwlist eth1 scanning' or 'ifconfig eth1 essid whatever' returns an ioctl error saying invalid parameter. I could not get the compat-wireless package to compile either due to a ralink driver throwing errors (And I could not choose the b43 driver with the driver-select script :S) so the only b43 drivers I have access to are the ones in .31-r6 and .32-r1 kernels, and neither one of them even gives me an interface to work with. Mvh Daniel Kuehn 2010/1/4 Rafał Miłecki <zaj...@gmail.com> > > W dniu 4 stycznia 2010 23:45 użytkownik Gábor Stefanik > <netrolller...@gmail.com> napisał: > > 2010/1/4 Rafał Miłecki <zaj...@gmail.com>: > >> 2010/1/3 Daniel Kuehn <enha...@gmail.com>: > >>> I am the (un)lucky owner of a Macbook of late 2009 model, which has a > >>> Broadcom combo card (BT + WLAN sharing 3 antennas) but neither the b43 or > >>> broadcom-sta support it, I just get invalid parameters or the interface > >>> disappears. > >>> > >>> Is there anyway I could help you guys with getting this wlan card to > >>> work? I > >>> could test experimental drivers or try to bash it to work or such, it > >>> would > >>> just be awesome if I could get it to work. > >>> > >>> The chip PCI ID is 14e4:4353 if that helps you any, its a wireless N card > >>> as > >>> I have understod it, but there exist no info that either confirm or > >>> discard > >>> the PCI ID as a WLAN card. I havent been able to get any info of which > >>> card > >>> this is supposed to be from broadcoms sortiment, I cannot find any of the > >>> cards listen on broadcoms homepage to match with this card. > >> > >> Could you check what chipset is it? I think you should see something like: > >> b43-phy0: Broadcom 43** WLAN found > >> where 43** is number I ask for. > >> > >> Gábor: do you have still access to this 14e4:4353 device? If Daniel > >> won't able to check chipset, could you do this? I don't think that > >> BCM43224 you noted is correct. Could you double check that? > >> > >> I just would like to fill table on > >> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 with this device. > >> > > > > The wireless card in the late-2009 MacBook is a BCM943224PCIEBT (as > > stated on the exterior shell of the actual MacBook), which is a custom > > (but Broadcom-made) BCM43224 (basically a dual-band BCM4322 plus a > > BCM2070 for Bluetooth). A picture of the card can be seen at > > http://images.weiphone.com/attachments/Day_091021/68_294416_286a2478633560a.jpg > > - note that this is an official Apple replacement part, and may look > > slightly different from a generic Broadcom version. Pictures of the > > Broadcom reference version will be available on FCC's site after > > February 20, when the temporary confidentality grant expires. > > > > The description for BCM943224HMB (the same card in a different form > > factor) can be viewed at > > http://www.broadcom.com/products/Wireless-LAN/802.11-Wireless-LAN-Solutions/BCM943224HMB > > (note Broadcom's odd usage of the word "SoC", which is used in the > > sense "single-chip transceiver" - the 43224 is not a SOC in the true > > sense of the word). > > > > I do not currently have either type of BCM43224 at hand, but the > > information found on the web looks convincing. > > Uh, so they really used 43[0-9]{3} instead of 43[0-9]{2}. Didn't > expect that, that's why I asked for double check. Thanks for > explaining. > > -- > Rafał _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
