On 01/27/2014 08:10 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > 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. Hi Adrian, Interesting. A while ago someone wanted to port brcmsmac to a BSD flavor (not sure which one). Now brcmsmac as-is today uses BCMA bus driver which goes under GPL-v2, which may or may not be a problem. Apple Mac users probably have 4360 and that hurdle is also still there. Gr. AvS -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
