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On 05/15/2012 09:18 AM, F. LECAILLE wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have some Wifi USB modules with 43236B Broadcom chipset. I have read on the
> linuxwireless dot org website that this chipset is supported by the brcmfmac
> *(USB)* driver.
> 
> As I am also trying to backport this driver for an embedded device which runs a
> 2.6.27 kernel, I had a look to the 3.2 kernel sources and especially to the
> drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac directory. But I do not find any
> reference to USB stack kernel functions.
> 
> How may this work?

It works by being patient. USB support was merged upstream in the
previous merge window so it is present in the current 3.4-rcX releases.
If you want to backport I suggest to use compat-wireless (see [1]) as it
does a lot of work for you.

Gr. AvS

[1] http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download

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