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Re: Trying to add support of 802.11ac broadcom chpiset to openwrt

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On 12 November 2013 09:50, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/12/2013 01:13 PM, Alessandro Gnagni wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> i am trying to implement on a smart city network a solution based on
>> high end home routers like the asus RT-AC66U.
>> we want to use openwrt for that but unfortunately the broadcom driver
>> isn't yet supported.
>> I have one rt-ac66u here for development, there is anything that i can
>> do for help?
>> i came here after a suggestion of one member on openwrt forum:
>> https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=217341#p217341
>>
>> i also read this past email:
>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg110443.html
>
>
> Not sure what 11ac chipset is used. The upstream brcm80211 drivers currently
> only support one 11ac chipset, ie. the bcm4335. This is a single stream with
> SDIO host interface supported by the fullmac driver brcmfmac.
>
> For chipsets like 4360 we need to add AC phy support to brcmsmac. So far we
> do not have green light to do so.
>
> Regards,
> Arend

Hiya,

Is this still the status quo? I'd like to start porting updated
broadcom support to FreeBSD for Apple Macintosh users who would like
11ac NIC support.


-a
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