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On 01/29/2012 06:56 PM, M. Lambert wrote:
> Good morning,
> 
> I have seen a couple of posts where reference was made to usb support in
> broadcom drivers, and that the code would also support additional
> chipsets (such as the bcm43236 but not the 43231) when quote "my testing
> here is complete" unquote.

That is my line ;-) I am indeed testing/tinkering on adding USB support
to the brcmfmac driver with bcm43236 as chipset.

> As I have a Linksys AE2500 (13b1:003a) usb dongle, I am very interested
> in helping test this functionality no matter how reliable it is, or is
> not at this time.  Using Fedora 16 x64, kernel 3.2.2-1 at this time.  I
> believe I'd have to build my own kernel to enable bcma support but not
> positive about that yet.

BCMA is only needed for the brcmsmac driver. So no need to enable it.

> If the driver is near a point where testing by others with certain
> hardware could be helpful and/or useful I'd be happy to test and provide
> any feedback.

Thanks. I hope to submit the patch this week.

Gr. AvS

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