On 05/18/2012 12:32 AM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: > Hi Arend, Sorry for the late response. Found it ready and waiting in my Drafts folder :-S > I got a new device, a Linksys E3200 with a BCM47186 (id: 0x5357) and a > BCM43236 v2 for 5GHz wifi. > > The BCM47186 has a wifi core rev 28, a N-PHY rev 9 and a 2057 radio rev > 5 and it does not work with brcmsmac or b43. :-( > > Are there plans to add support for such new N-PHY revs to brcmsmac and > the firmware? We are planning to add support for bcm43227/228. This requires an update in the n-phy code. > Here are some parts of my log with brcmsamc with firmware from > linux-firmware. I expect you changed some brcmsmac code allow it to handle your device. Correct? > > > When using the firmware from b43 (666.2, extracted from wl 5.100.138) I > get the following messages, but iw wlan0 scan does not find any networks > either. > > [ 30.088000] ieee80211 phy1: wlc_coreinit: txfifo mismatch: ucode size > 127 driver size 29535 index 5 > [ 30.164000] ieee80211 phy1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: > false (implement) > [ 30.172000] ieee80211 phy1: brcms_ops_config: change monitor mode: false > [ 30.172000] ieee80211 phy1: brcms_ops_config: change power-save mode: > false (implement) > [ 43.976000] ieee80211 phy1: FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC > [ 44.844000] ieee80211 phy1: FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC > [ 48.088000] ieee80211 phy1: FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC > [ 48.956000] ieee80211 phy1: FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC > [ 53.448000] ieee80211 phy1: FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC > [ 54.316000] ieee80211 phy1: FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC > [ 76.816000] ieee80211 phy1: FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC > [ 77.684000] ieee80211 phy1: FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC > > Did you talk to the firmware guys, is there a limitation to core rev 23 > devices in the N-PHY firmware other than in the firmware used by wl? I had to dive into the firmware repo myself and the answer is yes. The published firmware for brcmsmac only supports the corerev of the chips it currently supports. > There is also a BCM43236 V2 (usb chip) on the board. I tried brcmfmac > and the firmware from linux-firmware, but it did not work. This is a rev > 2 device and brcmfmac just seams to support rev 3. Are there any plans > to add support for rev 2 or is this an other problem and a rev 2 device > should also work with brcmfmac? There is no fullmac firmware for Rev 1 and 2 as these simply lack on-chip memory to do so. These devices use a different driver model. This model has a different split of functionality between device and host. Neither brcmsmac nor brcmfmac can support devices using that model. 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
