On 07/30/2012 05:02 PM, Paul Hackett wrote: > Hi > > I'm writing to you from Ireland and taking you up on your kind offer to > "feel free to contact the developers listed below" in this > site<http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211?highlight=%28broadcom%29%7C%2843235%29> > . I will try to be kind in my reply as well ;-) > I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 (kernel 3.2.0-23-generic-pae) on a Dell E520 (CPU > C2D 1,86 GHz) > > I recently bought a Linksys AE1200 wifi dongle (Broadcom 43235 chipset) for > use on another machine (which I'll explain shortly). > > In Ubuntu, the brcmfmac.ko driver is already present in > > /lib/modules/3.2.0-23-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/brcmfmac.ko > For the 3.2 kernel the brcmfmac only supported SDIO devices. USB support was added in 3.4 kernel. However, the Linksys AE1200 needs a different driver model that is not supported. So the only option for x86 is using ndiswrapper. > > Two questions: > > 1. Should I have been able to get the brcmfmac driver working in Ubuntu > 12.04 or is it still in development? If yes, what am I missing? So the answer is no for the two reasons above. The brcmfmac support BCM43235 only for chip revision 3 and higher. The Linksys AE1200 has an older revision that requires a driver model that is not supported. > 2. Are we likely to soon see an ARM version of a brcmfmac driver for the > Raspberry Pi with which I can running my RPi wirelessly using the Linksys > dongle? The brcmfmac driver is already working for ARM platforms. We have both SDIO and USB running on Pandaboard platform. > > Thank you for reading this. > I hope you may have some time to respond. > > Very many thanks and best wishes > > Paul Sorry my response may be disappointing. 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
