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Thanks a lot guys!

I tried both latest stable kernel (linux-2.6.37) and latest mainline
kernel (linux-2.6.38-rc8) with
  CONFIG_BRCM80211=y
  CONFIG_BRCM80211_PCI=y
. No wlan0 turns up yet.

Any more hint please?

Xianwen


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Brett Rudley <brudley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Its not intuitive, but 0x4353 is the PCI device ID of the 43224 dual band card which does run under brcm80211.
>
> Regards
> Brett


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are two ways that Broadcom chips are connected to a PCIe interface -
> one uses the SSB interconnect, and the other does not. In b43, only chips
> with SSB are supported. As the 4353 device does not use SSB, b43 does not
> work with it. Whether it ever will is being discussed.
>
> You should use either the brcm80211 driver from compat-wireless or kernels
> 2.6.37, or later. You may also use the wl driver from Broadcom if you are
> willing to run closed-source software. That driver does not use mac80211.
>
> Larry
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