Hi,
I recently received a donated BCM43228 (14e4:4359) mini-PCIe card. At the
moment, neither b43 nor brcmsmac support it. Although, grepping the proprietary
driver wl shows that it would recognize that PCI ID, that driver does not load
as it requires routine lockdep_init_map(), which is exported only for GPL
modules. As a result, owners of this device can only use it with Linux if they
can find a suitable Windows driver for use with ndiswrapper. In my experience,
that means that 64-bit users are out of luck.
Reverse engineering this device to be able to drive it with b43 would involve a
lot of effort. If your group is planning on adding it to brcmsmac, then I would
not undertake this project. To the fullest extent that you can, please advise me
regarding this matter.
When getting your addresses from file MAINTAINERS, I noticed that it was not
updated for the name change from brcm80211 to brcmsmac. The current info is as
follows:
BROADCOM BRCM80211 IEEE802.11n WIRELESS DRIVER
M:
M: Roland Vossen <rvossen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
M: Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
M: Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
M: Kan Yan <kanyan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
L: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
L: brcm80211-dev-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
S: Supported
F: drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/
Thanks,
Larry
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